Happy Friday friends! Do you have anything awesome planned for the weekend? I'm very much looking forward to spending it with my hubby, and we have something special planned for tomorrow. More on that to come! As usual, I'm sure that I'll fit a workout or two into my weekend... and speaking of workouts, I have a good one to share with you guys today! In honor of me breaking my muscle tweak streak and not having any muscle spasms or serious aches in the last few weeks, today I'm sharing a leg & booty HIIT workout that'll definitely make you sweat. I created this routine months ago and have done it a bunch of times, but for some reason I'm just getting to sharing it now. Perhaps it's because I wanted to snap some shots of me doing the moves for some visual explanation, and ... [Read More]
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20 Interesting Health Magazine Stats
Hello, hello! Hope that you had a great weekend. Mine was a nice & low-key few workless days in SoCal, which was just what I needed. My hubby had Marine Corps training, so I had a lot of "me" time: hiking with Harley, recipe testing, running errands and cleaning, and hanging by my pool enjoying yesterday's perfect weather. First thing's first: I'm sending out my first health coaching newsletter tomorrow, so if you haven't subscribed yet and you'd like to receive my monthly e-blast, sign up below! It's going to include workout and recipe ideas, healthy living tidbits, health coaching discounts and more. Subscribe to the Nicole Crane Health newsletter list! Onto today's topic, since I've been traveling a lot lately, I've been doing a lot of magazine ... [Read More]
My Current Favorite San Diego Studio Workouts {April 2015}
Hello, hello! Today we're talking about the local workouts that I've been loving! Recently I mentioned that I collaborated on a new project with ClassPass, which means that I've been a ClassPass workout crazy person. I think I'm sort of on a mission to try all of the awesome workouts that my health-conscious city of San Diego has to offer, and ClassPass is a great way to explore tons of studios in the area. Last week my friend Trish and I attended a ClassPass event at Core40 in Little Italy. You may recall me talking about Core40 in Solana Beach before because it's a total butt kicking workout, and this was the first time that I visited their downtown location. Since I live in the northern part of San Diego County, I haven't spent much time downtown lately. The class was ... [Read More]
20 Minute Cardio Blast Workout
Hi friends, and greetings from Las Vegas! I traveled to Vegas over the weekend for a work trip and will be here for most of the week. Before the "work" of my work trip really started, yesterday my co-workers and I had some fun outside of the Vegas strip, but more on that later, because today I've got a quickie workout to share! Even when traveling I still like to get some exercise in. If I'm on vacation, I usually find a place for that exercise outdoors in the form of hiking or biking, or just even just walking a ton being a tourist, but with work trips like this, I find myself mostly indoors in a convention center. I do walk an awful lot within the convention center - my poor feet always die wearing heels and other uncomfortable fancy shoes, and I think I was made to be ... [Read More]
10 Fitness Friday Motivational Quotes
Happppy Friday! Since I love to workout and almost always feel great post-exercise, that must mean that I'm always excited to get my workout on. Right? Well not quite. Just like virtually everyone else, I have my days when I'm just not in the mood for the exercise session I had planned. This was the case yesterday, when I had finished work for the day, and it was time to fit in a workout before I had a Skype catch-up date with a girlfriend of mine who lives 1,000 miles away. I had been sitting at my desk working for awhile and was just sort of feeling tired, but I knew that there was no real good reason why I shouldn't workout, so instead, I spent a few minutes getting myself motivated with some exercise quotes. Here are my top 10 motivational fitness quotes on this lovely ... [Read More]
What Do You Look for in a Gym? My Must-Have List
Hi friends! I'm writing this on Thursday night, as I'm coasting on an exercise high from a workout that ClassPass hosted at The Rush Indoor Cycling Studio tonight. I had never been to the studio before, and found it to be a lot like SoulCycle (review of me trying that out in NYC here): a fast-paced cycling workout with good music and high energy. Thanks for hosting the fun event, ClassPass! Any other American readers have off of work on Monday for Presidents Day? I do, and I'm pretty excited for the long weekend! But back to fitness! Recently I talked about how I haven't been a member at a regular gym since moving last year. I decided that I'd like to shop around for a normal gym to possibly join. I did a free trial at a gym a few weeks ago, and while they had all of the ... [Read More]