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Month: May 2019

2019 Health Fashion

The reason ‘vacation brain’ makes you want to up and move to paradise, stat

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May 07, 2019 at 03:00AM by CWC I think it took, oh, 14 hours and two tomato-jam-slathered egg sandwiches before I decided we were moving away to Providence, Rhode Island. My significant other and I picked the vacation spot on a whim and fell head over heels in a forever way. Cut to: The two of us googling real estate options by a river, because uhh…honestly, eff our home in New York City, a sweaty, godless rat palace where dreams curdle and rent costs eclipse even the thought of first-born child. We’re never moving to Providence, by the way. I’m such a New York lifer that I’ve spent many a post-happy-hour blur weeping while just looking at the Manhattan skyline. My boyfriend is such a New York lifer that he wrote an entire album about—of all boroughs—Staten Island. But ever since we left [googles nickname for Providence] the Divine City, I’ve been wondering why so many of us delude ourselves into aggressively fantasizing about our vacation spots as a possible next home. Especially when going through with the change-up often just isn’t feasible in actuality. As it turns out, vacation brain leads many of us confuse leisure experiences with real life. “This is a very common dynamic,” says clinical psychologist Nancy Irwin, PsyD. “We tend to idealize places when we are catered to, are not working, are not cleaning or cooking.” It makes sense that we’d romanticize the places where we have fun—and for us, Providence was a blast. It

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2019 Health

Yep, your warmup really is just as important as your workout

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May 06, 2019 at 04:00PM by CWC When you walk into the gym, chances are you’re ready to hit the ground running (or spinning, or strength training, or elipitcal-ing) from the outset. Your playlist is queued, your sneakers are laced, and it is go time. But, according to the pros, you could be missing out on getting the most from your sweat sesh if you make the common mistake of skipping out on your warmup exercises. Sure, they aren’t as exciting as pumping the treadmill up to a level 10 and starting out with a full sprint, but they are a necessary element to your entire routine. “It is important to warm up before you work out to prevent injury and also to get the most out of your work out,” says Alisha Ciolek, a Tier 3 trainer at Equinox Chestnut Hill. “A warmup puts your body and mind in the right state to exercise.” It’s tempting to skip out on this critical few minutes for the sake of the other zillion things on your to-do list (and admittedly, they can often feel better spent emptying the dishwasher or responding to emails), but trainers agree that you’ve gotta do it. After all, there’s a reason why literally every workout class you’ve ever set foot in starts with at least a song or two of warmup exercises to ease you into what’s to come. “A quote I use often is ‘motion is lotion,’” says Katie Merrick, Gold’s Gym Personal Trainer, NCSF. “A tight

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