Improving balance is not something that crosses our mind a lot. Perhaps we don’t even feel like there’s anything to work on with our balance, but there’s always room for improvement. Better balance has positive impacts on our safety as well as on both our physical and mental health. Here are our four reasons to…
Sitting still for long periods can cause poor posture, discomfort, muscle stiffness, and pain. But if we work a desk job in an office, it might seem that we don’t have a choice but to sit throughout the day. Fortunately, there are light stretches we can do to have some mobility without leaving our seats.…
When we do an intense workout or return to the gym after a long break, we know this will hurt the next day. The muscle pain and stiffness we experience around 12 to 24 hours after physical activity is Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness or DOMS. DOMS is common when we try a new exercise…
It’s challenging to start and sustain an active fitness routine, so it’s only natural for us to expect to reap the fruits of our labour. But sometimes, it might seem like progress and results aren’t as immediate and as obvious as we hoped for-especially when progress to us is seeing a lower number on the…
We know many different aspects of our health benefit from active fitness. Regular exercise can reduce the risk of diseases, strengthen our bones and muscles, help manage our weight, boost our mood, and even improve our sleep. Yes, we can get better shut-eye with as little as ten minutes of moderate exercise daily. Moderate-to-vigorous exercise…
Living in a very fast-paced world makes us all prone to dwindling mental health – even more so for us women, with so many things around us that can easily dampen our moods. From body issues to societal standards, we deal with a lot of things on a daily basis. There are different ways to…
Do you like to exercise? Some might find it intimidating, and it’s quite understandable. A lot of online content centres on transformative results achieved through different means that seem challenging to do, but here at our You Can Do Fit community, we make sure that exercising is something you’d find enjoyable. Whether it’s your first…
Society’s reevaluation of what is truly important has paved the way for the rise of self-help and motivational reading materials, be it in books, studies, or online articles. One common factor of these readings is how we should all start with our WHY, our reason to take that first step and venture towards a new…
The internet will tell you many different ways to create goals for yourself. The ideas of self-help and goal-setting have become quite a trend, especially in the past couple of years as the pandemic hit us all across the globe, making it the centre of so many reading materials both online and offline. This blog…
Mindfulness is all the rage these days and while it seems like a very new concept, it’s actually been around for quite a while. There’s a good reason why mindfulness has become so popular in recent years – science has proven again and again that practising mindfulness can have numerous benefits for both our health…