By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Getting fit and staying fit when you have a busy schedule is tough. I sympathize with all my overworked clients, friends and relatives and loyal readers as I work full-time and go to graduate school. But all the evidence [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Fitness for Those That Are Overscheduled, Overworked and Sedentary
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged Fitness, personal training, Physical exercise, Sedentary lifestyle on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t Just Run, Be a Warrior and Sign Up for the Warrior Dash!
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged Obstacle course races, Races, Warrior, Warrior Dash, Warrior Race on January 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Bored with running marathons, going to the gym, and other routine fitness activities? Why not train to be a warrior? There are two Warrior Dash races being held in the Chicago area this year: one in Channahon, Illinois and [...]
How to Protect Your Vacation From the Horror of Noseeums
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged DEET, insect bites, Insect repellent, Mosquito, Noseeums, Sand Fleas, St. John's, VI on January 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sand Flea bites. Image by jebb via Flickr By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer On our recent trip to St Johns, one of the Virgin Islands named after nuns by Columbus-check), we expected to relax, get some sunshine, snorkel and hike. And we did all [...]
Get a Jump Start on Adventure Travel in 2011
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged AdventureTravel, Chicago Adventure Travel Expo, Learn scuba, Rick Steeves, Zip-line on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer The Chicago segment of the Adventure Travel Expo will be held next weekend, Jan 29-30, 2011. I went last year and it was well worth it! It looks like they added more events this year. Some of my clients [...]
Does Tylonal Cure a Heartache or Just Temporarily Mask the Pain?
Posted in Health and Wellness, Stress Management, tagged Chronic pain, emotional pain, feeling pain, managing pain, Pain, Pain Management, physical pain on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Descartes’ pain pathway. Image via Wikipedia By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer A neuroscience-minded friend shared an interesting post (Mind-body: How mental, physical pain are linked) with me about the mind-body connection between physical pain and emotional pain. According to the post author, Dr. Raison, [...]
Helping Chicago Get and Stay Calm-Calm Chicago
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, Stress Management, tagged Calm Chicago, Chicago Tai Chi, Chinatown, Qigong, Tai chi, Tai chi chuan on January 14, 2011 | 11 Comments »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer One of my most popular posts is about Tai Chi and the Wii Fit. As far as I know, there are still no Tai Chi modules for the Wii Fit. I also wrote a post about schools offering Tai [...]
Keeping Your Mind Mentally Healthy-Relaxation and Stress Relief
Posted in Health and Wellness, Stress Management, tagged relaxing, St. John, VI on January 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Today, I was reading a wonderful blog, Writing A Blue Streak written by Allissa Haines, a fellow massage therapist. I love her blog because it’s funny and honest and she doesn’t take herself too seriously. In her New Year’s [...]
Technology or Real World Fitness: Which is Best for You and Your Kids
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged Dominique Dawes, Exergaming, fitness games, Physical exercise on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer The other day, I ran across an article by Olympic Gold Medalist, Dominique Dawes, about using online games to teach kids to be more active. The reasoning is that if kids are already using technology for hours why not [...]
Indoor “Mountain” Biking?
Posted in Fitness, Health and Wellness, tagged indoor mountain biking, Mountain bike, Mountain biking, Recreation and Sports on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer Mountain biking indoors? Only in Cleveland, Ohio. (And soon, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) I caught this article with accompanying video of a Harry Hart, a Yahoo writer that tried “indoor mountain biking” (isn’t that a oxymoran). Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike [...]
2010 in review-Working Well Resources blog
Posted in Health and Wellness, tagged Sue Shekut, wellness blog, Working Well Resources on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sue Shekut, Owner, Working Well Massage, Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Wellness Coach, ACSM Personal Trainer WordPress gave me a nice summary of how my blog did in 2010. I want to share the stats with you, my readers to say thanks so much for stopping by, thank you for reading my posts and I [...]
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