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Category: Mental Health

Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

Why Food Habits Change During Summertime

Why Food Habits Change During Summer For many people food habits often do change during Summer. Why is this? You have lots […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

Why New Year’s Resolutions End So Quickly in January

Here’s why New Year’s Resolution end New Year’s resolutions end during the third week of January, and subsequently, goals fall by the […]

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Fitness & Health, Mental Health, Self-Defense

Fathers and Outdated Beliefs Can Often Go Hand in Hand

Father’s and outdated beliefs comes from deep conditioning… Fathers and outdated beliefs came up few weeks ago when I read something about […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Martial Arts/Self-Defense, Mental Health, Self-Defense

Your Safety Quotient and How to Measure It

What is your Safety Quotient? Level of Confidence Creates Your Safety Quotient  How is your confidence level when it comes to self-protection […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health

SpartanSprint—Lessons Learned from This Race

Running the Spartan Sprint Race builds more than a ‘win’ How I got into it Upon the suggestion of a friend and […]

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Fitness & Health, Mental Health, Self-Defense

Are You Nice or Kind? And Do You Know the Difference?

Are you a nice or kind person? Are you nice or kind and do you know the difference? The other night I […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Martial Arts/Self-Defense, Mental Health, Self-Defense

Chemistry Is Involved in Changing All Habits

Truly chemistry is involved in changing all habits—who knew? The following blog post by James Clear explains how it all works in […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health, Nutrition

Why Springtime is Such a Good Time to Get Fit

Why Springtime is Such a Good Time to Get Fit As you know, Spring is only three months long. What can you […]

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Fitness & Health, Mental Health

Self-Care Self-Love February—How Does It Affect You?

Self-Care Self-Love in February is Almost a Given How does it affect you when you hear ‘self-care self love’ in February You’ve […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health

What is #BadassCourage & How to Overcome Challenges

What is #badasscourage & how to overcome challenges? Every move re-educates the muscles. Indeed what is BadassCourage? BadassCourage evokes pictures of some […]

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Fitness, Fitness & Health, Mental Health

Tabata Protocol in our HIIT Classes Workouts

Tabata Protocol in HIIT Classes Workouts Brings Results Tabata protocols are worked into our HIIT-Kick classes. This protocol is often added to […]

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Martial Arts, Martial Arts/Self-Defense, Mental Health

How Martial Arts Transforms Your Life

Martial Arts Transforms Your Life How Martial Arts transforms your life is often misunderstood by the general public, given that most people […]

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