The Ultimate Guide to Work Out In Your Hotel Room
Even if it is tiny, and even if you don’t have time. I am also including a challenge program I have started that you can follow along from home or while you are on the road!
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The DAO of Deskercise
“I’m chained to my desk all day. I don’t have time to work out!” So not true. Introducing the “DAO of Deskercise”. You can exercise right at your desk and burn hundreds of extra calories all day. And you can preempt later body aches and pains from tech neck, wrist tension, and lower back compression. But how? Read on.
DAOFitLife Hotlist: The best apps for travel
Here is a list of all of the websites and apps I rely on when I travel
The DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist May 11
If you are on the hunt for a good graduation gift or Father’s day present, check out the SkyBorne iPhone Wallet More Zoom video etiquette from Anna Bey (no beds in the background, don’t take your phone to weird places). Want to avoid the traps of ordering from Amazon in foreign countries? Here’s how (Wise) A pocast on the transformative power of mindfulness, with Peter Attia How to exercise for your sign, according to an astrologer (Well and Good). Which leads me to my throwback video of the week: Awesome arm toning exercises (Women’s Health) How to recognize when you…
8 ways to eat fruits and vegetables without the hassle
There are two main barriers for most busy professionals when it comes to getting in more fruit and vegetables: 1) they are not as fun to eat as M&Ms; 2) They are also way harder to prepare – we don’t all have time to make unicorn food smoothies . And the last reason makes it really problematic for thoe of us who barely have time to eat in the first place. So here is your no-muss, no-fuss guide to getting in more fruits and vegetables for a healthier, leaner you in time for summer.
Bringing Sexy Back – DAOFitLife’s Top 10 Back Exercises
How much thought do you put into training your back? If the answer is not much, this article will convince you otherwise. Working your back is essential to counteracting the 3 C’s – couch, computer, and the chair you sit in all day. Your back plays an integral role in all of your workouts. Running. Yoga. Pilates. Strength Training. Your back is literally your core. Even if you are not working out, your back muscles hold you up and help you do all the random menial tasks like laundry and emptying the dishwasher. Also, your back takes up a lot…
Cold, Flu or Covid? The DAO weekly Hotlist
Do you have the sniffles? Below is a guide from the CDC website on whether it is more likely to be a cold, flu, or COVID. Of course you will not know for sure unless you get tested. Even if you are fully vaccinated, doctors are still recommending that you get tested if you have the symptoms of a common cold just to rule it out, since the latest variants of COVID have symptoms that start off as a common cold. Still, this guide is good to have while you are in limbo. You can also read this article for…
How to order healthy sushi
Sushi is one of my favorite go-to foods as the weather starts to get warmer. The sticky rice, salty taste and fun eating with chopsticks is a perfect way to end a hard workweek. While sushi can be a great choice if you are trying to be conscious of your diet, you definitely need to have the right info so that the wrong choices don’t make your sushi meal the equivalent of McDonald’s. Here is the DAO guide to ordering sushi, according to my personal recommendations and research I have gathered from nutritionists. Can sushi even be healthy? The answer…
Zoom conference call workouts – plus etiquette tips
I promised to continue my series on business etiquette with a guide to Zoom etiquette. But to add a fitness twist (and some fun), we’ll start by a fun way to work exercising into Zoom calls based on common trigger phrases (that are often Zoom faux pas) and what you can do to burn some extra caloiries without anyone being able to tell – even if you are on camera!
A crash refresher course on business etiquette (Part 1)
The art of business etiquette has largely dwindled as we have spent the last two years in isolation. But now, we are traveling again, meeting clients and teams in person, and going to lunches and dinners. The lack of practice is causing a lot of people anxiety about how to act, and that anxiety is amplified in business settings. How do we carry ourselves with class and walk with confidence (for some, in HEELS?) What fork goes with what again? This post will break it down and feature a great YouTube playlist you can watch to get all the basics…
How to make condiment substitutions and keep the taste
Condiments may not seem like a big factor, but think of it like a debt. It’s not the principal (the meal) that can drive you deep in debt all of a sudden. You know that amount. It’s the late fees (and the late fees on the late fees) and the interest (and the interest on the interest). So while we could be eating all the “right” foods you may not be seeing results because of this saboteur. The devil, as always, is in the details. Fortunately, readers, I have
The DAOFitLife Weekly Hot List
Do you know if you are actually dehydrated? This article explains the tetlltale signs. Hint: you should always drink BEFORE you get thirsty. If you are even five percent underhydrated, you experience the symptoms including fatigue and headache. Considering hydrating with a zero sugar hydraftion drink? Read this before you do. Here are some ways you can make regular water more interesting and therefore drink more of it! An awesome water combo I recommend is one teaspoon of chia seeds, water, and Persian rosewater. The combination comes out like a Bubble Tea but at only about 20 calories for 16…
Get fit in 5 minutes a day
This sounds like a scam right? But experts agree, 5 minutes of working out a day combined with taking steps to stay active can get you into shape – and keep you in shape. Here is how you can use mini workouts to game the system and get fit while getting it all done.
5 tips to spring into fitness
You know the feeling. You actually have a reason to wear real clothes, then you reach for those favorite pair of jeans/skirt/pants and then…YIKES. First, DON’T PANIC. Your weight is not like the national debt. It does not just have to keep going up. Contrary to popular belief, it is not hard to lose weight. It just takes more than 5 seconds and in our instant gratification society, that means we give up easily. The first thing you have to change before your body changes is your mindset.
The DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist
Here is our weekly list of what’s hot in the fitness world. Want to be more happy? Learn from the Irish – it’s not just their good luck. Here is a list of “happiness tips” we can learn from the Irish from around the world. I work with great teams all over the world- and my colleagues from Ireland have this noticeable calming and cheerful presence. Given the approach of Saint Patrick’s day, I thought this was a great time to dig into some articles and I came across this great article in the Irish Times: Why the Irish are…
Your complete guide to a guilt-free Super Bowl Sunday
Fun fact: Did you know that on Superbowl Sunday, the average person takes in over 1200 extra calories in snacks ALONE? On Super Bowl Sunday, Americans will consume approximately 28 millions pounds of chips, 325.5 million gallons of beer, AND 1.38 billion chicken wings. If you were to dump all the guacamole we’re about to eat atop a full-length football field and spread it out, the depth would reach almost 12 feet. In our posts on habits, we talked about sustainable solutions. Part of that is planning ahead for the inevitable domino effect of “eating holidays.” Especially Super Bowl Sunday, which has timing…
The DAO of fighting fatigue: how to really recharge at night
This part III of the Habit Series will focus on the last third of your day: ending your day, the evening, and sleep. First thing’s first: you HAVE TO separate work and life at the end of the day… Or you have no chance of resting and recharging…instead you will burn out and be a nervous wreck the next day. In the “pre-pandemic era,” we often ended our day at the office or client site. Leaving work would mean shutting down our computer and making a definitive decision about what could wait until the next day. The commute home would…
DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist
What’s hot this week in the fitness world. Equinox Yoga Strong Class Review (Popsugar) – Do you like yoga? Do you like strength training? Do you want to combine both classes in ONE workout? Then try Equinox’s yoga strong. Get your dance party on for this Super Bowl either before the game or at halftime with this Dance cardio workout by Megan Kong!You don’t have to life football to participate – it’s also just a fun weekend activity for when it is WAY to cold outside. You can do this simple 10-minute ab workout while you listen to NPR in the…
Build your back better: How to get rid of back pain
We’ve got your back! Let us help you lighten the load a bit. Back pain is something that most of us have experienced and it can really put a damper on your quality of life. From an evolutionary standpoint, where we had no choice but to be actively on our feet (otherwise we would die) until the recent technology age and age of the iHunch, we humans are finding ourselves being ourselves more and more curled and hunched over. It is causing some serious and tragic problems on a micro and macro scale. Here we answer common questons, like what are…
DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist
What’s hot in fitness this week. By Lili Kazemi and Neda Khalili, certified NASM trainer.
