Weight training for better skin plus brain boost!

Polli back squat

Happy almost spring! With the longer, warmer days I’ll bet you’re motivated to walk, jog, run, hike, and play outdoors. This means that it’s even more important that you include strength training in your program for performance and injury prevention. But did you know that weight lifting is also good for your skin and for […]

Nap time.

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Hi Friends~ I’m not good at slowing down and stopping, but today I did. I made myself lie down, and fell asleep for a whole hour. In the middle of a Monday – amazing. A 3 minute segment on napping on the radio yesterday gave me good reasons to allow myself to rest. As if […]

SAD: Seasonal Affective Disorder And Recipes To Fight It

lemon zaatar chicken

Hi friends~ Hope you’ve been having a good winter. The daffodils and crocuses are poking up out of the ground, so it’s starting to feel springy around my city. If you’re like so many women, and me, you might have been feeling symptoms of SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. I’ve felt it every year, a sense […]

The head bone’s connected to the foot bone.

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Hello friends~ I’ve been hearing from friends and clients all week about neck and shoulder pain. Hip, knee, and back issues too. It could be that people are less active in winter, maybe sitting more, exercising less. While we’re all getting older every nan0-second, we don’t have to be sidelined with joint pain, or succumb […]

Happy Days

Kettlebell leaks

Hi Friends, This week’s newsletter isn’t about fitness or nutrition, but a different, and important part of wellness. Happiness.  I just read an article about Finland again being ranked the happiest country in the world – that’s 6 years running. Taxes are very high in Finland, so money doesn’t seem to be a key to […]

Be strong. Give yourself flowers.

Polli with white roses in basement

Hey, hi! Did you see the GRAMMYs last night? Lots to like this year among the winners, those who didn’t win, and the tributes –  especially loved Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs duet, Fast Car, and the homage to Joni Mitchell by Brandi Carlisle, and singing the iconic song, Both Sides Now, the most perfect […]

Train for your old lady body.

Polli side with weights

Hello friends, Did you see the article in the NYTimes last week? (Gift article) Take the 30-Second Power Test If you’re a woman over 65, a good test score is the ability to get up no-handed from sitting in a chair 11 or more times. Men 12 or more. Strength training, (especially squats, which is […]

Force Of Nature

Polli black and white squat

Hi Friends~ If someone’s described as a force of nature, it seems like a compliment. But it also seems to imply that the person is just naturally that way. Good genes. Fast metabolism. Highly motivated. Disciplined. I heard someone refer to me that way recently, and none of that was ever true. I was an […]

Promises, promises.

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Hi Friends~ A fitness facility where I work is packed this month. No surprise – it happens every year. The members are doing the right thing, taking classes, using free weights and machines, and hiring trainers. But what happens next month, and the months after? Gyms literally bank on people buying memberships and training packages […]

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