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Summer is just around the corner, which means I need to get my butt (quite literally) into gear. My diet is mostly on track via macros and overall balanced eating, but I know I need to step it up a notch with my workouts if I want to look and feel great come beach season. My booty has always been a “problem area” for me, so a couple of years ago, I decided to focus on building and firming up my glutes with a 30-Day Booty Building Challenge. I was committed to making a change, but I didn’t want the extra workouts to take over my life. Basically, I wanted a glute program that was short and sweet, but very effective. You guys know I’m ALL about efficiency when it comes to my workouts, so this challenge was no different! And you know what? In a short amount of time, I saw results! So much, in fact, I decided to commit to another 30-day challenge for the month of May. This time, however, instead of doing one round of each workout, I am going to knock out two. It ends up being just 10 mi...

By now, the average person grasps just how important sleep is for our overall health. It seems like every month there’s a new popular science book extolling the virtues of sleep. Parents remember the zombified newborn days and can see (and hear), firsthand, what happens when a toddler doesn’t get enough sleep. And on a visceral level, we feel the need for slumber. Even if we’re unaware of or refuse to accept the health dangers of long-term sleep restriction, there’s no getting around the abject misery of a bad night’s sleep. We all want better sleep. We all  need better sleep. But how? Sleeping pills are not the answer for most people. (But please note: Don’t discontinue or alter a prescribed treatment or medication regimen without consulting your doctor…and, likewise, don’t begin a new regimen—like those below—without running it by your physician.) In one recent “positive” study on the effects of sleeping pills, almost every single subject suffered one or more side effects,...

I have procrastinated writing any baby posts for the past two months (for some odd reason) because I’ve wanted to write about sleep. However, I think I wanted to have and end to the story first, which obviously will not come. Parenting is one never-ending journey! I’m planning to write about other milestones (eating real food, starting to move, etc.) in a six month post, but I have so much to say about sleep I had to make it its own post! I did everything I could to avoid the four month sleep regression. You might recall that Mazen’s sleep was h o r r i b l e between 4-6 months, and so I followed all the “rules” to help Birch learn to self soothe. Of course we’ll never know if it was nature or nurture, but Birch has been a pretty good sleeper from about the one month mark on. I do think nurture has at least something to do with it. We practiced “le pause” and really paid attention to his cries and cues before rushing to the bassinet every night. (See Baby Sleep: Two Months In .) ...