March 15, 2019 at 08:03AM The lowdown on whether two-a-days are actually worth your time. Continue Reading… Author Ray Bass | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Month: March 2019
3 ways to exercise at your desk—without all the side-eyes from coworkers
March 15, 2019 at 07:58AM by CWC The debate over standing desks at work feels like a conversation that will never die. (Unlike you, apparently, if you sit all day.) We hear all the time that sitting will kill you. But get this: Scientists analyzed 53 different studies on sit-stand desks and found that the best thing to do for your health is sit sometimes and stand sometimes. If you think standing all day is going to contribute to weight loss, well, it won’t. “Sitting all day is bad for you—and standing all day is as well,” says April Chambers, a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, who led the study. Also, who the heck wants to stand all day? Now that your smug colleagues can take a seat, the question arises as to how to incorporate healthy movement into your workday. Wondering how to replace your standing desk? Behold, three inventive options. Are they extra? Definitely. But they also give a way for you to move your body during the day while still getting sh*t done. How to exercise your right to work out at work. Photo: Cubii 1. Cubii Jr., $249 This little guy is basically a mini elliptical that fits under your desk. It allows you to move your feet while you’re just sitting in your chair as you normally do. It’s ergonomic—so your feet won’t constantly bang the top of your desk—and it’s also quiet, so it won’t annoy everyone around you. Photo: Flexisport 2. Flexisport
A nutritionist’s guide to healthy eating at California Pizza Kitchen
March 15, 2019 at 07:39AM by CWC With over 200 locations in 32 states—and 13 countries—California Pizza Kitchen has expanded way beyond the the Golden State. You’ll even find the franchise in airports like Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, and Honolulu. Unlike most other popular pizza chains, the California Pizza Kitchen menu proves the brand is pretty up on the health trends—they even have cauliflower crust and spiralized zucchini noodles. (Must be those healthy California roots.) While the whole menu isn’t health focused—this is still a pizza joint we’re talking about—their efforts make it relatively easy to stick to a healthy eating plan like the Mediterranean diet, ketogenic diet, or Whole30. But to prevent you from menu overload next time you go out to eat (so many options, so little time!), I enlisted the help of registered dietitian Erin Palinski-Wade, RD. Here, she shares her top picks at CPK for these three popular eating plans. Consider your homework done. Keep reading for tips on how to stick to a healthy eating plan at California Pizza Kitchen. Mediterranean diet Menu picks: Cedar Plank Salmon; Zucchini Pasta Shrimp Scampi; California Veggie Pizza What an RD says: The Mediterranean diet prioritizes omega-3-rich seafood over red meat, which is why Palinski-Wade is such a fan of the chain’s Cedar Plank Salmon. “With the Cedar Plank Salmon, you’re getting protein and healthy fats from the salmon and fiber from the spinach and white corn,” she says. But if you’re in the mood for pasta, she says you can still get plenty of protein
Is ClassPass still worth it? I tried it to find out
March 15, 2019 at 07:17AM by CWC Classpass has come a long way in the last six years. What started as a $100-a-month membership plan that gave you unlimited access to workout classes across New York City has now expanded 2,500 cities in 15 countries, and launched a booming digital fitness business that gives members access to top trainers from the comfort of their own living rooms. As the company’s offerings have changed over the last half-decade, so too, has its membership options. Which begs the question: Is ClassPass worth it? The monumental increase in partner studios and gyms (9,000 were added in the past year, rounding out to over 15,000 total) is just one of the many, many things that’s changed about the boutique fitness membership platform recently, along with the addition of varying class pack options, price hikes, the discontinuation of the Unlimited class plan, and the addition of wellness experiences to the growing roster. The biggest recent change, though, has been the introduction of the “credits” system. Unlike the original post-unlimited ClassPass model, where your membership afforded you a set number of classes per month (the Core Plan, for example, yielded 10 classes for $135), users are now able to purchase “credits,” and can redeem those credits at as many different classes as they’d like. Various classes retail for a various number of credits determined by a “dynamic pricing system”: A peak spot at Barry’s Bootcamp, for example, could cost 20 credits, while a two-hour slot at Crunch Gym will
This dating app uses refrigerator photos to find your match…which actually makes sense
March 15, 2019 at 07:07AM by CWC My very Italian partner has “Marinara” tattooed on his chest (literally), so when I unearthed a jar of Newman’s Own red sauce on our second date, it should’ve been a deal-breaker. So far things have worked out, but had our first interaction been through Refrigerdating—a new app where the way to someone’s heart is through the contents of their fridge—IDK if that would be the case. The Samsung-backed venture really runs with the whole “you are what you eat thing.” Users simply upload a picture of the inside of their fridge and find “The One” by sneaking a peak the shots others share. But aside from an unconventional approach, what can Refrigerdating offer that’s different than what’s already available in the mobile-app dating game? Well. Food speaks loudly to a person’s lifestyle choices, which are key to know when it comes to dating, says relationship expert Terri Orbuch, PhD, known as the Love Doctor. “When partners are similar in key life values, studies show they are more likely to stay together over the long haul,” she says. “One key life value is the importance of fitness, nutrition and health. So a refrigerator and what you have in your refrigerator can tell you a lot about a person.” The intel you learn right off the bat in Refrigerdating can help identify if someone is vegan, vegetarian, and/or gluten-free, and given that nutrition plans are lifestyle priorities for many, this can be a really big deal in relationships. “When partners
8 mental health tips that are so effective, therapists themselves swear by them
March 15, 2019 at 05:00AM by CWC There are so many strategies for cultivating a solid sense of mental health (Rethinking your social-media relationship! Scheduling a girls’ night! Journaling!). Still, figuring out what tips really work and what’s just noise is a highly personalized and hardly simple process. Since nobody knows what’s what when it comes to mental health quite like the people who preach it each day, we asked therapists to weigh in. Here, the experts share which tools they personally reach for on a regular basis in order to help keep their own mental-health game strong. 1. Rethink the way you approach worrying “We all have anxiety and things we worry about, but worry is thought garbage,” says Thea Gallagher, PsyD, clinic director at the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perlman School of Medicine. “There is no correlation between worry and outcome,” she adds, and it’s important to remind yourself of that fact when you start to stress. When Dr. Gallagher finds herself worrying about something, she tries to put herself on the following thought path: Can I solve this problem? And what can I do about it, if anything? “If I can’t do anything about it, I can’t worry about it,” she says. “There’s no point.” 2. Find a good mindfulness app, and stick with it The app Stop, Breathe & Think is a go-to for Tamar Gur, MD, PhD, a women’s health expert and reproductive psychiatrist at the
This new line of motion-activated skin care is made to work *while* you sweat
March 15, 2019 at 03:45AM by CWC There’s one beauty question that haunts a.m. exercisers pretty much every morning before they hit the gym: Are you supposed to go through your skin-care routine before you sweat it out, or after? Well, FaceGym’s latest launch takes all the guesswork out of it, because their new line of “motion activated” skin-care products is specially formulated to work while you sweat. Yeah, my mind was blown too. The “Training Squad”(AKA the name of the line) is literally a group of serum sticks that, as the brand puts it, is “skin-care that works out with you.” There are four different formulations included in the line, each of which is meant to target a different skin concern while you sweat. There’s a detoxification stick made with activated charcoal; a firming option with spirulina; a brightening one with Brazilian pink clay; and a hydration stick formulated with vitamins A, C, and E. In addition to their main actives, each of the sticks are made with a proprietary coffee bengalensis stem cell, which the brand says boosts skin performance and helps protect against the environment. As your skin heats up, your pores open (thanks, sweat) and the ingredients are activated—like magic. “When you start sweating, you don’t want those really good stem cells to go in immediately—you want them to wait a little bit,” says FaceGym founder Inge Theron, noting that the stem cells are encapsulated with moisture and typically break about 10 minutes into your workout. “Then, like
I Went Waterless & It Totally Wrecked My Skin
March 15, 2019 at 03:05AM Save yourself the misery. Continue Reading… Author Lindsay Kellner | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
We Spring-Cleaned mbg HQ With Natural Cleaners & These 14 Worked Best
March 15, 2019 at 02:26AM Add them to your shortlist. Continue Reading… Author Emma Loewe | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue
Yes, Fondue Is Back—But There’s A Twist
March 15, 2019 at 02:03AM It doubles as a pasta sauce! Continue Reading… Author Caroline Muggia | Life by Daily Burn Selected by iversue