Home - DAOFit.Life

woman wearing black sleeveless top using gym equipment

Exercises Tools

Bringing Sexy Back – DAOFitLife’s Top 10 Back Exercises

Lili Kazemi April 26, 2022

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…

woman biting pencil while sitting on chair in front of computer during daytime

Uncategorized

The DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist

daoadmin April 26, 2022

Are you wondering exactly how stressed you are? There is a Stress quiz you can take that will tell y9ou where you stand on a “Perceived Stress Scale”. Thanks to my friends Brendan and Jane at Zamahealth! I took the quiz from them in a workshop on paper, which you can find here, or you can take it online at https://www.bemindfulonline.com/test-your-stress It totally takes less than 5 minutes. Here’s an excerpt of the questions. And what can you do about stress? Exercise, meditation, good diet and sleep are your top allies. Here are some common health questions that nutritionists get…

woman in gray crew neck t-shirt holding iphone

Life hacks Tools

Cold, Flu or Covid? The DAO weekly Hotlist

Lili Kazemi April 12, 2022

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…

food photography of varieties of sushies

Diets Tools

How to order healthy sushi

Lili Kazemi April 12, 2022

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…

Exercises Life hacks Tools

Zoom conference call workouts – plus etiquette tips

Lili Kazemi April 11, 2022

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!

Decide Path

How Igniting Your Why Can Get You What You Want

Lili Kazemi March 30, 2022

“This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.”- Bertrand Russell, prelude to autobiography In my post about leaving a toxic relationship, I talked about a jumping-off point. There is a basic crossroads here – you either accept where you are at, or don’t. If you do accept where you are at, then you can keep things exactly the way they are. If you don’t accept where you are at, then decide to do something about it. A decision to commit to change, to transformation, and…

Life hacks Tools

A crash refresher course on business etiquette (Part 1)

Lili Kazemi March 29, 2022

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…

slices of carrots, zucchini, and cherry tomatoes on round white ceramic bowl

Diets Tools

How to make condiment substitutions and keep the taste

Lili Kazemi March 29, 2022

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

Diets Exercises Life hacks Podcasts Tools

The DAOFitLife Weekly Hot List

Lili Kazemi March 29, 2022

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…

woman in black sports bra holding blue and black kettle

Diets Exercises Tools

Get fit in 5 minutes a day

Lili Kazemi March 15, 2022

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.

person holding Bai antioxidant cocofusion drink bottle

Diets Exercises Tools Uncategorized

5 tips to spring into fitness

Lili Kazemi March 1, 2022

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.

white short coated dog wearing green and yellow hat

Apps Blogs Diets Exercises Tools

The DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist

daoadmin February 28, 2022

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…

Uncategorized

DAOFitLife is celebrating our 1 year anniversary! A look back at our top 10 posts

Lili Kazemi February 16, 2022

2021 was not everything we expected, but we all learned a lot, and have an optimistic 2022 ahead. This post summarizes the most popular posts from DAOFitLife’s first year- some inspried by you! Below you will find a brief summary and a link to read more. After you read this, I encourage you to write your top 10 “wins” for 2021. I promise you will feel amazing and energized. Let’s look back – but also commit to moving forward, together.

Uncategorized

DAOFitLife Hotlist: Top 10 special edition

daoadmin February 15, 2022

In this week’s hotlist, since it is our one year anniversay issue, we thought it would be fun to highlight our favorite things along with our favorite posts! So here are the 10 things that we view as a guarantee to motivate, inspire, and just make you feel good!

Diets Exercises Tools

Your complete guide to a guilt-free Super Bowl Sunday

Lili Kazemi February 2, 2022

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…

Life hacks Tools

The DAO of fighting fatigue: how to really recharge at night

Lili Kazemi February 1, 2022

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…

Diets Exercises Tools

DAOFitLife Weekly Hotlist

Lili Kazemi February 1, 2022

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…

Outlook Path

That Time She – A Personal Memoir Collection

Lili Kazemi January 20, 2022

This is for no one to read. Or everyone to read, years from now. In the Wall Street Journal was an article called, “The Way You Tell Your Life Story Matters. Start Now.” The part of the article, which was written by a well-known obituary writer captured my attention was this: “Many of us, however, want to cheat death by leaving a mark, however faint. We tend to believe the proverb that people die twice: the first time when their heart stops beating, the second when someone speaks their name, or thinks of them, for the last time.” So this…

person wearing white and yellow sneakers

Act Path

Start these habits now for a fit workday

Lili Kazemi January 19, 2022

Hust how do you manage your day in the age of the “always available” culture? Read on to find out how to avoid burning unnecessary energy and taking more control of your fitness inside the workday.

Exercises Life hacks Tools

Build your back better: How to get rid of back pain

Lili Kazemi January 19, 2022

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…

DAO - Decide . Act . Outlook Changes

You Missed

Explore Topics

Tools

Diets

Life hacks

Exercises

Path

Act

Outlook

Uncategorized

Apps

Log In