Fitness corner: How one minute of daily breathing changed my life
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome back Fitness Corner writer Pritam Potts. Personal Transformation Series Part 1 of 4 One year ago, on the fourth anniversary of my late husband’s death, I...
View ArticleFitness Corner: When indoor cycling becomes a community
Years ago, I heard a reverend say to her parishioners, “If you can’t find the faith you need then you can borrow it from me.” Similarly, in my role as a strength coach and trainer, I provided to my...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Back to basics with the Whole30 diet
For those of us looking to meet our health and fitness goals, there are many eating plans from which to choose. Take your pick! Paleo, Vegan, Mediterranean, Whole30, DASH, Raw, Keto . . . to name just...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Get back into the working-out game
After an unexpectedly intense workout this morning, I found myself crying. This is not unusual for a lot of people who work out hard; sometimes, after pushing your mind and body, it’s easy to find...
View ArticleFitness Corner: A ray of sunshine, gone
Once upon a time there was a girl named Amy Fuller who worked at Harbour Pointe Golf Club in Mukilteo. Harbour Pointe (or HP as the regulars call it) is a beautiful and challenging public golf course...
View ArticleFitness Corner: How to get motivated
Motivation can be elusive even for the most disciplined and driven of us. It ebbs and flows through different phases of our lives . . . as our goals change . . . as we change. As a coach and trainer,...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Exercising while traveling
My late husband, Coach Dan Potts, was the most dedicated exerciser I have ever met, even on vacation. I have vivid memories of him on the floor of vacation rentals and hotel rooms, completing multiple...
View ArticleFitness corner: In November, my thoughts turn to men’s health
When November rolls around every year, I think a lot more about gratitude. Thanksgiving has a way of reminding us how much we have to be grateful for, and I often find myself telling people “I’m...
View ArticleFitness Corner: When a New Year’s resolution lasts a lifetime
When I was 16 years old I made a New Year’s resolution that changed my life. I resolved to give up soda for one year. I have no recollection of why I did it, but I do remember it ended up being a...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Stop worrying about your weight
“I really need to lose some weight. Right now I weigh 105 lbs.” —Me, writing in my diary when I was 11 years old You can imagine how I felt when I found this diary entry recently. I don’t remember ever...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Exercise in the age of coronavirus
The novel coronavirus has upended our lives in a way that few of us have ever experienced. With seemingly no end in sight, it’s an unsettling and frightening time. As we socially distance and isolate...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Grieving and the COVID-19 crisis
Six years ago, I was in the midst of the worst circumstance of my life—the death of my husband. Now, as we are collectively experiencing the worst thing our country has experienced in our lifetime, I...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Running with Wonder Woman
In early 2020, I signed up for the DC Wonder Woman 5K race. I have always been a solitary exerciser but after a hiatus of many years, it felt right to kickstart my running again by running 3.10 miles...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Walk your way through the pandemic
Walking, it seems, is now a “thing.” If there was a form of movement that most of us can do, made for a stay-mostly-at-home-avoid-crowds-crisis, it is definitely walking. And with this pandemic...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Simple lifestyle choices key to actively aging
No one wants to get old, yet we can pretty much agree it is far better than the alternative! There are few of us who don’t complain about how our bodies and minds change as we get older. But as...
View ArticleFitness Corner: How do you want to show up for your future self?
This has been an unprecedented and overwhelming year. Even as we move into winter, COVID is not letting up. Our lives have been compromised by the significant consequences of this pandemic and we all...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Make every holiday moment count
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light,...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Learning from limitations
Ask any of my clients and they will tell you that I am an expert in working around all sorts of physical and mental limitations. For example: Client text: I tweaked my knee and so I don’t think I...
View ArticleFitness Corner: How to make exercise (mostly) effortless
There’s always effort involved in starting and maintaining a consistent exercise routine. Although it’s possible to fall into it, like I did when a boyfriend started dragging me to the gym several...
View ArticleFitness Corner: It’s OK to move the ball
My late husband and I are at our favorite golf course in Palm Springs. It’s 108 degrees in June. We are on vacation, precious time away from our Edmonds home and most especially, Seattle Cancer Care...
View ArticleFitness Corner: In the new year, resolve to persevere
Every January I feel that this coming year could be a great year, maybe the best ever. I usually look to January as a time of positive change. If nothing else it’s my preferred month to do some...
View ArticleFitness Corner: The most useful health and fitness advice I’ve ever received
Twenty years ago, I started my career in the fitness industry, but exercise was already an integral part of my life for long before that. I’ve been exposed to a great deal of formal and informal...
View ArticleFitness Corner: What motivates you to work out?
What is the thought that gets you exercising? What is it, exactly, that makes a sedentary person decide that they want to get active? Or an overweight person decide they want to shed some pounds? Or a...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Lessons learned from my mysteriously disappearing golf club
The last time I played golf, my driver mysteriously disappeared out of my golf bag. I only realized it was gone when I went to grab it for my first shot on the first hole. To describe my reaction as...
View ArticleFitness Corner: The measure of my mother
As a daughter, there were always three sure things in my life. Death, taxes and the deep, passionate love my parents have always had for each other. So it seems fitting that every year my parents’ May...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Strive to be an average person doing average exercise
I sit here with a broken wrist and a sprained ankle, unable to do much of anything. As a trainer and coach, I am the queen of modification. I would never let a client off the hook if they had any kind...
View ArticleFitness Corner: The momentum of doing nothing
A couple of weeks ago, there I was, as usual, on the couch. A common place for me to be, two months into recovering from what felt like the slowest-healing-ever sprained ankle and pain-won’t-go-away...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Appreciation through absence
When I was growing up, all I ever wanted was a pool. I was obsessed with pools. The most exciting thing in the world for me was when my grandmother would come to visit from England and stay at a hotel...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Audit and edit your fitness regimen for winter
Lately, it hasn’t felt in the Seattle area as though winter is near (and hardly even fall) although this may have changed by the time this column is published. In fact, this is the perfect time to take...
View ArticleFitness Corner: A New Year’s note
There’s a collective energy in the air at this time of year. Wafting all around us are feelings of freshness, motivation, potential for change, new opportunities, and chances to make ourselves and our...
View ArticleFitness Corner: There is no finish line
“Beating the competition is relatively easy. But beating yourself is a never ending commitment.”—Nike, There Is No Finish Line ad copy Since the moment I saw this image, from Nike’s “There Is No Finish...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Empower yourself to face the inevitability of aging
I feel old these days. Right now, people reading this that know me personally are laughing hysterically, especially my longtime older clients. They tried to warn me about what it is like getting...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Don’t feel like working out today? Try these tips to get moving
In a perfect world we’d always feel like working out. Obviously, this is far from a perfect world! Even if your workouts are a solid part of your routine, even if you have carved out the time on your...
View ArticleFitness Corner: Incognito in Edmonds
I wrote this column a year ago, but never submitted it for publication. For me, the Thanksgiving holiday each year is a reminder to engage more deeply with the gratitude I feel for so much in my life....
View ArticleFitness Corner: Looking back on 10 years
My Edmonds News published my first Fitness Corner column 10 years ago this month. It was a fairly typical January piece about making changes in the New Year, although to...
View ArticleFitness corner: Why consistent stretching needs to be part of your fitness...
“Don’t ever lose your mobility, it’s what keeps you young.”—Adrian Williams, Peloton Instructor I’m not a big fan of stretching, even though I am extremely familiar with it, personally and...
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