Tips & Tricks for How to Balance Fitness & Fun This Holiday Season Balancing fitness and fun during the holidays can feel like a full-time job. Between holiday gatherings, gift shopping, events, and other priorities, our fitness and wellbeing can fall by the wayside. Here are five tips for how you can prioritize fitness while…
Celebrate Fitmas at CHWB Focusing on physical health is sometimes pushed to the side when the holidays are in full swing. However, it’s important to stick with your fitness routine during this busy season, because doing so is a vital tool for combating holiday burnout. Exercise reduces stress and anxiety levels, promotes better sleep, improves…
Gratitude During the Holidays The holiday season is so focused on giving to others that we sometimes forget to give to ourselves — in both the literal and emotional sense. Between attending holiday parties, choosing the perfect gifts for family, friends and loved ones, cooking, and hosting, it’s easy to form the habit of not…
Crush Your Next Workout at the Crosby Wellness Center The fitness floor at Crosby Wellness Center, the fitness facility inside CHWB, is home to more than 30 fitness machines designed to help you crush your workout for any exercise – leg, arm, back, chest, core, and more. While starting these machines may be intimidating, we…
Center for Health & Wellbeing Community Education Programs The Community Education programs hosted at the Center for Health & Wellbeing (CHWB) are designed to support your journey to whole-person health. Monthly, CHWB hosts more than 30 programs connected to the Seven Dimensions of Wellbeing. As part of the CHWB philosophy, the Seven Dimensions of Wellbeing…
Nourish Your Body with Superfood Ingredients at Nourish Coffee Bar + Kitchen Nourish Coffee Bar + Kitchen, the health-focused café inside the Center for Health & Wellbeing, uses fresh, organic, and whole ingredients throughout its menu, leading the community to make healthier choices for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nourish prioritizes the use of superfoods and whole…
Pilates Reformer 101 Just like clothing and hairstyles go out of style, the popularity of exercise regimes waxes and wanes over time. Pilates Reformer workouts, however, with its low-impact approach and highly effective toning and strengthening format, is an evergreen classic that counts millions of devotees across the country. According to a survey completed by…
Practicing practical self-care can be a task that gets easily forgotten. Putting everyone else’s needs above your own and the daily stressors with work, life, and social connections creates roadblocks in remembering to take care of and cherish the relationship we have with ourselves – the most important relationship we will have in our life….
Packing the Perfect Gym Bag Packing a gym bag doesn’t need to be a stressful experience. Whether you’re getting your sweat session in early before work, during your lunch hour, after work, or even late at night, we have the perfect guide to help athletes of all fitness levels pack a gym bag. What’s…
In our latest Fitness blog, Five Ways to Make This Your Summer of Fitness, we talked about how to accommodate your health and fitness goals while the bustling schedule of summer continues to change. This included using equipment around the house when you can’t make it to the gym, adding in different activities the entire…
Summer brings warm weather, trips to the beach, pool parties, and barbecues! Chef Collette Haw, a classically trained Culinary Institute of America graduate and regular presenter in CHWB’s Nutrition Theatre, recently demonstrated how to cook flavorful dishes that will spark inspiration for what you can make on the grill at your next gathering. Some of…
Maintaining a fitness routine during the summer can be a challenge. It’s easy to get distracted during the summer months when our routines are sporadic, kids are out of school and our priorities change. Between the summer pool parties and vacations that lead to less time for fitness to the hot weather making it more…
