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Are You Doing Microworkouts? Here’s Why You Should.

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The fitness industry is in the midst of a renaissance. Flawed and dated strategies like sedentary recovery practices or overly stressful HIIT workouts are being replaced with cutting-edge practices that offer more efficiency and return on investment. Today I’m covering one emerging fitness strategy: performing brief feats of strength in the routine course of a day. Let’s call them microworkouts. I’m talking here about dropping for a single set of deep squats in the office, hitting a set of max effort pull-ups whenever you pass under a bar in a closet doorway, or stocking your backyard with a hex deadlift bar or bench press and busting out a single set every time you pass by while taking out the garbage. Banking Benefits With Less Stress Micro-workouts deliver two distinct and awesome benefits: First, when you add up the energy expenditure of these brief but frequent efforts, you obtain an incredible cumulative training effect . In essence, you are banking a lot of strength/power/ex

Twilight Time: Reading With Kids

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A little big for my lap, but never too old!! My big boy comes home today!! We have missed him so much. When I wrote about reading more last month a few of you suggested that you schedule reading times WITH your older kids where you both read your own books. I thought this was a genius idea!! A win-win for new readers and old readers alike. Bedtime Lasts Forever Bedtime in our house is always quite the process. We first get Birch to sleep (after bath, nursing, stories, songs) and then we work on Mazen. He has always been a “give an inch take a mile” kinda boy, so bedtime can sometimes take a loooong time. “One more book. Scratch my back. I need water. I need a snack. Another book please. One more kiss.” It’s a sweet time of day, so I think that’s why so many parents have trouble with the final kiss goodnight. Mazen has also never loved settling down to sleep, and I think that’s because he really doesn’t like being alone! (I’m realizing this is a big difference between Mazen and B