Category Archives: Exercise

The Best Way to Exercise For Strength, Energy, Sexiness, Healthy Hormones, and Gorgeous Skin

Strength training wins

Last post, I said I was starting the intense 1-hour-per-day, 6-day-a-week exercise program P90X. When I posted it, I was hoping that it would spur some people who actually know a lot about exercise to chime in on their thoughts on hormonal health and exercise so that we could get a discussion going about it….

I’m Starting P90x, A 90 Day Extreme Home Fitness Program, and um… I’m Terrified.

Yep, it's straight out of an infomercial

P90X: an intense, yet very popular, program in which for 90 days, you do at least one full hour every single day of hardcore fitness. Am I crazy? Maybe. Terrified? Yes. Why am I doing this? Good question. I don’t really like working hard. When it comes to exercise anyway. So what the heck am I…

Jump Rope for Skin! – 10 Benefits of Picking Up a Jump Rope

Jump rope for skin

I remember when I was in elementary school, there was this fundraising campaign going on throughout the district every year called “Jump Rope for Heart”. I think it was to encourage kids to raise money for awareness of physical activity, healthy eating, and childhood obesity. Well, all I remember is that this resulted in a…

5 Things I’ve Learned In the Past Week For Treating Acne, Anxiety & Low Energy

acne, anxiety, and low energy

Hi everyone – I just wanted to give a little update on what’s been going on with me! It’s been two weeks since I got my first reiki treatment, and I’ve had another one since. I’m still planning to get two more sessions. As you may know, I decided to get reiki to see if this…

Smoothing Out the Rough Spots With Yoga

Rachel

This is a guest post from a reader named Rachel – it’s a perfect follow up post to Friday’s entry about my new found love for www.myyogaonline.com. This article is about how and why yoga can help you improve your life and clear your skin, like it has done for Rachel.  Rachel is a yoga…

Can’t Afford Yoga Classes? Me Neither – Find Out How to Get Unlimited Yoga Classes Online

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In my efforts to begin seriously working on my emotional health, I’ve decided to start trying to do yoga again on a daily basis. The problem with staying committed is not that I don’t like yoga – I do like yoga. Not only is it meditative and good for peace of mind, it also gets…

Get Gardening! Watch Me Prepare and Plant My Vegetable Garden

vegetable gardening acne

It’s that time of year! Well… in the northern hemisphere, anyway. Yes, it’s time to think about planting a vegetable garden if you would like to have the freshest, healthiest, and most inexpensive organic vegetables around! I just got my garden all sorted out, and I filmed a video for you to get you all…

Q & As – Intense Workouts, Is Yeast Bad? & Food Combining

Hey friend! This is the very first episode of Monday Q&As with Tracy… I hope everyone whose questions these are are okay with me using them. For future reference, I will never use names in this and leave the questions anonymous to protect privacy Do Intense Workouts Cause Acne? Hi Tracy, I work out 5…

3 Simple Yoga Moves to Clear Your Acne!

Want to know how yoga can help you to clear your acne and achieve great skin? Well – a few points: Can be great exercise, which is awesome for overall health and happiness Releases stress and brings your cortisol levels down Improves circulation so that your blood can bring your skin vital nutrients! Yeah. Yoga’s…

5 Ways to Avoid Feeling Intimidated by Group Exercise

Are You Intimidated by Group Fitness?

I’m really proud of myself. Why, you ask? Well it has to do with exercise. When I started my journey to clear skin, I began a regular exercise routine for the purposes of health, and subsequently beauty. My exercise routine consisted of running for 20 minutes and doing a 15 minute circuit training routine every…