Willpower is overrated. When people talk about changing their behavior, they often place a lot of...
Category: Fitness
Helpful information and insight on how caregivers can become more fit, healthier and happier.
10 Rules We Can Learn From Aging Parents Now
We watch elderly parents make choices we swear we would NEVER do. Yet so many of our aging loved...
Raising Your Kids With A Giving Heart, Despite Chronic Illness
Ashton’s passion for helping families and other children at the Ronald McDonald House is inspired...
What keeps me going: biking around town
I'm lucky enough to live in an area with a Main Street that still has a post office, hardware...
Seeing-Eye Runner
When I asked Luanne (5 days before the event) to be my partner for the TransRockies Run, a...
What keeps me going: Swimming
I know this isn't something everyone can do. I'm lucky to have such easy access to a pool. When I...
8 Science-Backed Health Benefits to Walking for Seniors
Walking may be the best form of physical exercise for seniors. Packed with health benefits,...
When betrayal is freedom
For fifteen years I cared for him. His accident was days after our engagement. My mother pulled me...
Nothing is impossible
Ramirez, 41, had never run a mile in her life until about four years ago, when she decided she...
The Key to Fitness
It's 5:30pm, the end of a hectic workday and you are looking forward to going to your gym to take...
You can’t firm fat!
The difference between weight loss and toning.
Top 4 reasons you’re not exercising — SOLVED
“Life, right now, is going to get better for you. Everyone can include in proper fitness into their lifestyle, despite any constraint.”
– Edward Jackowski, PhysEd
How to strengthen your core muscles (in 3 minutes)
Short on time but still want to strengthen your core? Learn from PhysED how to protect your back...
How to stretch your hamstrings to support your back
Ed Jackowski of Exude Fitness show us, in under five minutes, to save ourselves a lot of pain and discomfort!
Back pain: the career killer
Don't let back pain end your career as a caregiver Caregiving is a dangerous job. Back injuries...
Beginning a fitness program
Are you beginning to workout and aren't too sure where...
Understanding your heartbeat
In this video PhysEd discusses the importance of...
What’s ailing you? stretch away your aches and pains
Are you having back pain? In this video PhysEd talks...
Your hamstrings are the key to avoiding back pain
Are you curious to find out what hamstrings are and...
Ways to exercise on a chair
There are many creative ways of exercising while at...
Exercising lowers your risk for chronic disease
Do you know a caretaker who might be afraid of working...
Ways caregivers can cope with stress
As a caregiver, have you been stressed lately? In this...
How to prevent falls
Serious falls oftentimes occur at home, the best way...
Lifting your loved one safely
Because my husband’s legs are paralyzed I lift him many times a day. I lift his legs, help him...