Sundays 9:30-11:00 a.m. beginning January 26, 2020. Join for one, a few or all 6 sessions. Free of charge. We all know how important physical fitness is to our well being but what about our mental wellness? FIT founders, Thom and Tracey Downing are hosting...
Making Time When There Doesn't Seem to be a Minute to Spare
We are back to school and rapidly heading toward the holiday season and a new year. I couldn’t believe it when I walked into a store over Labor Day weekend to see Halloween decorations hitting the shelves. It did make me think about the cycles our clients...
Move more, feel better
The more we move, the better we feel - moving not only contributes to better physical health, but also a healthy mind and soul. As we’ve heard in recent news, sitting is the new smoking - 86% of full time American workers surveyed spend their day sitting and...
Exercise and Stress Management
Multiple Stress Types In our world of constant communication, stress levels quickly go from zero to 100 with a simple reading of a text or e-mail. This response begins in the brain and then extends into the body. Consider that some types of stress can be good,...
Treat Yourself – Get Some Sleep
You have probably heard by now that sleep is good and not sleeping not so much. Regular quality sleep for sufficient duration leads to improve emotional, mental and physical health, higher performance, better memory, etc. Just one week of insufficient sleep, on the...
Strategies for Easy and Enjoyable Weeknight Cooking
Love to cook? Weeknight dinners are a challenge. Hate to cook? Making any dinner is a challenge. Lucky for us, there are a ton of meal delivery services offering healthy, ready to eat options. Depending on your bank account, this may not...
Health is Everything
Getting Older Isn’t Supposed to Hurt It’s generally accepted that health declines as we age. At around 40 or 50, the wheels start coming off the bus as our doctors start prescribing medicine to control cholesterol, to lower our blood pressure or starts...
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The Power of Rest
Here at FIT, we are always encouraging clients to set goals to work towards. In the busy world that we all live in, however, these goals are unfortunately often undermined by “life events” and other time constraints that derail us. It’s amazing though, that...
Exercise? But I am on Vacation!
Did you know that vacations are one of five situations that precede a lapse in exercise? According to sport psychologists, boredom, lack of time, laziness, illness, and yes, vacations can preempt exercise adherence. Many people put forth tremendous effort to begin and...
4 Tips for a Healthy 4th of July
Independence Day is a great day to get together with friends and family and celebrate. It's also notorious for being a time where we might overindulge with food and drink. We talk about self-care quite a bit which in essence refers to cultivating joy in your...