Imagine being healthier and fitter than you’ve ever been in your life. How great would it feel to look the way you want and have a habit of taking good care of your body? Well today, we’re launching a tool that will help you do just that. We’ve just added a resource to the recently redesigned ThriveFit page that will help you get plugged into this great community. By connecting with each other, we can…
As you probably have noticed, most of the time here at TotalThriver, we typically feature an article each week to share ideas or concepts about how you can thrive in your fitness, finances, or faith. I hope these articles encourage you to think and reflect on the various issues and take action based on new knowledge or understanding. However, most of the how is usually left to you. Today, we’ll try to remedy this by getting…
When you visit the ThriveFit page, you may notice that an unusual piece of equipment is required for nearly all of the workouts recommended there: a stopwatch. Unlike many workouts that you’ll see people doing in your local gym, our regimen involves completing a certain number of repetitions during a discrete period of time. Is there a good reason for working out this way? What are the advantages and benefits? In today’s article, we’ll answer…
We’re just about to begin the second week of the new year—how are you doing on your goals so far? If you’re like most of us, this week it will be harder than last week to stick with your new habits. As the excitement of pursuing a better or healthier life wears off, we all are very tempted to revert back into old ways that are familiar. How can we head this tendency off at…
Merry Christmas to all you TotalThrivers out there! I’m sure that like me, many of you ate enough food in the past few days to feed a small army! Some people feel bad after such a spree of overeating, leading them to seek out resources like our ThriveFit page to shed a few pounds and get back into shape. It’s a good idea to work toward better health, but often these resolutions to “do better”…
The following article is a guest post from Steven McClain, a member of the TotalThriver community. Steven recently began following the ThriveFit workout program and describes his experience and excitement for this new fitness regimen. For the last several years I have been doing workout regimens that didn’t do much besides maintain strength or maybe even lose it gradually. I did what the typical gym rat would do which consisted of bench, dips, tricep extensions, flys, curls, rows, leg…
This post is fourth in a series of six articles on how fitness benefits many other areas of your life. So far, we’ve discussed how challenging fitness regimen can improve your productivity, disposition, and relationships. Today, we’ll investigate the connection between your fitness and finances. Although at first glance these two subjects may seem to be unrelated, in fact there are many aspects of these two areas that affect each other. Your Premiums The first…
If you’re ever began a new fitness program, you’ve probably found great results (and the associated soreness ;)) in the first few weeks. The amount of weight you can lift jumps up and up. The time it takes you to run 400m drops by large margins. But after a few months, you seem to stall out. It can feel like you’re hitting a glass ceiling. Where you used to gain 30 pounds per week on…