Health & Fitness Expo

05/23/2018

Mindfulness teacher and author Ananda Leeke's podcast inspires you to incorporate mindful moments into your daily life. Listen to today's episode that discusses what mindfulness is

02/09/2018

Kicking off our coverage of the 2018 Winter Games, we would like to give a huge shout out to Dr. Bill Moreau, DC, DACBSP who is the Vice President of Sports Medicine, USOC and adjunct faculty her at SCU. ,

03/21/2017

Rain or shine we hope you'll join us for the Health and Fitness Expo this Saturday! We are so excited to make 2017 the year you achieve a healthier, fitter and happier you.

03/18/2017

We are just one week away from our Health and Fitness expo and we couldn't be more excited. We hope you'll be joining us next Saturday!!!

03/08/2017

Need a great workout move to add your fitness routine. Try the Cross Body Mountain Climber!

This is one move that will workout your whole body and really target those lower abs!

http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/lower-belly-exercises/slide/3

03/06/2017

Ready to achieve your goals this week? Change your mindset of how you see being fit. Seeing it as a lifestyle change will help you maintain your level of fitness longer.

03/03/2017

Ready for this weekends healthy recipe? Try this amazing Kale Salad, thats gluten free, dairy free, soy free, sugar free, and vegan
We promise you'll love it.

Recipe by thehealthyapple.com

Ingredients
½ cup quinoa
Water
2 large sweet potatoes, scrubbed and cut into ½ inch pieces
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1 head dinosaur (flat) kale, ends trimmed
1 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil or avocado oil
1 large green apple, thinly sliced
Juice of 1 large lemon
2 Tbsp. raw walnuts
1-2 Tbsp. dried cherries or cranberries or goldenberries
2 tsp. fresh lemon zest
pinch crushed red pepper flakes or chili powder

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Cook quinoa on the stove top in a medium saucepan in water according to package directions. Remove from the heat and fluff with a fork.
3.Meanwhile, prepare the sweet potatoes on a large rimmed baking sheet. Sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until very tender. Remove from the oven.
4. In a large bowl, massage the kale with the olive oil using your hands until the leaves are tender, soft and dark brown. You can choose to chop the kale or leave the kale leaves whole. Add the remaining ingredients; toss to combine and serve immediately or chilled.

Recipe and Photo: http://thehealthyapple.com/the-best-kale-salad-gluten-free-dairy-free-soy-free-sugar-free-vegan/

02/24/2017

How to Stay Motivated to Achieve your Goals. Visualize yourself achieving your goals because if you can dream it you can do it!

02/24/2017

Need a healthy recipe for this weekend? Try this simple and filing salad for lunch or dinner this weekend. We promise you'll love it.

Recipe and avocadopesto.com

Ingredients
1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 medium sweet potato, peeled, and diced,
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt, pepper, to taste
2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 medium red onion, diced
2-4 cloves garlic minced
large handful parsley, chopped
1 lemon, zested
1/2 a lemon, juiced
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes (or chili) powder
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
2-3 tbsp toasted sesame seeds

Directions
1. Heat pan over medium heat and add oil. Cook diced sweet potatoes until lightly browned on all sides and cooked through. Add salt, pepper to taste and half the cumin powder (1 teaspoon) .

2. In a large bowl combine chickpeas, garlic, onion, and parsley.
To the bowl add the sweet potato with the lemon juice and zest, coariander,rest of the cumin powder, red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper and sesame seeds.

3. Toss to combine. Add additional olive oil (up to one tablespoon -- optional).

Recipe and Photo: http://avocadopesto.stfi.re/2014/07/20/sweet-potato-and-chickpea-salad-gluten-free-vegan/?sf=apvbppg

02/23/2017

How to Stay Motivated to Achieve Your Goals. Don't compare yourself to others. Keep your eyes forward on your OWN goals. If you at the race the person next is on, you may lose sight of your own journey and trip and fall. Their journey is not your journey. Keep your eyes forward.

02/22/2017

How to stay motivated to achieve your goals! Track the progress your making and how much you've already achieved. On the days when your unmotivated or feel overwhelmed at how far you have to go, you'll have a record of how much you've already conquered.

02/22/2017

Want a workout move that will help fire up your core and get you closer to those dream abs... try the bicycle crunches.

http://www.popsugar.com/fitness/How-Do-Bicycle-Crunches-958400

Everyone needs a basic refresher: here's how to do bicycle crunches!