Hydration is all about balance
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Hydration is all about balance

Hydration is all about fluid balance: Fluid balance is the relationship between fluid coming in (mostly from food and drinks) and out (from sweating, breathing, excreting, vomiting) of your body

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Intermittent Fasting For Women
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Intermittent Fasting For Women

While intermittent fasting has a multitude of benefits, if you are a woman reading this, there are some things you should know before you dive in.

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3 Types of intermittent fasting:
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

3 Types of intermittent fasting:

Let’s start with the beginners fasting protocol: 16:8 intermittent fasting. In this protocol, you go 16 hours without eating a meal then eat your day’s meals in an 8 hour window. During a 16:8 intermittent fasting protocol your body will be depleted of it’s blood glucose (regularly available fast fuel) and your insulin levels will drop triggering the body to stored energy (fat). As you begin to play around with the 16:8 intermittent fasting you may notice that you feel

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Phase 2: Fasting for Longevity 
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Phase 2: Fasting for Longevity 

Three meals a day is a relatively new trend in the broad spectrum of human life and while it is commonplace today, we did not eat like this until the industrial revolution. But are there benefits to eating a different way?

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Intermitting Fasting: Phase 1 - The introduction
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Intermitting Fasting: Phase 1 - The introduction

Humans have been fasting since the beginning of time and yet, fasting is one of the new fads in a long line of fads. This month we’ll spend time learning a bit more about fasting, what it is, what the benefits are, how to do it, some hacks that allow you to fast and not feel hungry. For those of you who are interested in trying intermittent fasting, I’ll also give you the protocol to follow that will ease you into intermittent fasting and help you learn which type of intermittent fasting protocol works best for you.

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Mobility Challenge: Let's mobilize.
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Mobility Challenge: Let's mobilize.

Mobility simply put, is easier movement through any range of motion. In order to gain mobility, we must first address the fascia. Fascia is connective tissue that surrounds the muscles, bones, nerves, and organs of the body. For our purpose, we will be focusing on the fascia that surrounds the muscles (myofascia).

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The 3 Phases of Habit Change
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

The 3 Phases of Habit Change

When we adopt a new habit we go through three phases: unbearable, uncomfortable, and unstoppable. Read more to learn more.

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Keystone habits, what are they and why to they matter?
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Keystone habits, what are they and why to they matter?

Some habits matter more than others in changing the things that either add to or take away from a healthy life. These are ‘keystone habits’, and they have a major influence how you, work, play, react to stress, sleep, and eat.

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Habits = Water
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

Habits = Water

The water is to a fish like habits are to your life. The unconscious choices and seemingly inane decisions that make up our daily routine.— but, if you stop for a second and examine them, they become visible again.

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How to change your habits.
Elise Matthews Elise Matthews

How to change your habits.

All habits follow the same, simple, three-step loop:

  1. Cues

  2. Routines

  3. Rewards

If you learn what each of these are, you can learn how to influence your behaviors to change your habits

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