fitness

Nestor’s Power Smoothie

by Liz Hurley on April 4, 2013

Nestor’s Morning Power Smoothie (Serves 2): 1 cup vanilla soy milk (or almond milk) 1 cup plain low-/non-fat yogurt 1 banana 1 cup frozen mixed fruit (your choice; I like Dole fruit medley with peaches, pineapple, strawberries, mango, and grapes) 1/2 cup fruit juice (your choice; I like mango/passion fruit) 2 scoops vanilla soy protein powder [...]

Brandi’s Granola Recipe

by Liz Hurley on April 3, 2013

Here is our Massage Director, Brandi’s favorite breakfast, the recipe for her homemade granola is below.  Here’s what Brandi has to say about this delicious looking breakfast: “I workout in the morning before breakfast and almost every morning I eat a bowl of granola with milk, 2 eggs with feta cheese and spinach and fruit.  [...]

Alec’s Blog: Family Weight Loss Challenge Update

by Liz Hurley on March 27, 2013

Family weight loss challenge update 3/7/2013: I’ll be honest, the first two weeks of February were tough.  With the Super Bowl, my busiest season at work, an out-of-town engagement party, and the first Carolina-Dook game, there were many reasons to both celebrate and drown my sorrows in food and beer (based on how I spelled [...]

Self Improvement

by Ronda Williams on September 16, 2011

Jamie here, with this week’s health and fitness blog. For the blog this week, we decided to pose an interesting question to our training staff. The question was… What are you doing for self- improvement? Essentially, what do you do to do to challenge ourselves to become better, brighter, more powerful (physically or mentally). After [...]

Sticking to the Routine

by Ronda Williams on August 4, 2011

Sticking to a routine isn’t always easy. In fact, it’s hardly ever easy unless the routine doesn’t require us to do much work. For instance, if I lived in Barbados, I think I could gladly start up the routine of getting up every day to chill in beach chair under some palm trees. Or better [...]