It’s no wonder April is National Stress Month - taxes are due, the long winter may have taken a toll on you, or perhaps you’ve shed your cold weather layers only to find your body in a different shape than you last saw it. This month’s KARE 11 Showcase Minnesota Health & Fitness segment provides you with simple strategies to physiologically minimize the stress on your body as well as to increase your overall resiliency to stress.

KICK STRESS WHERE IT COUNTS! I share 9 simple nutrition and exercise strategies to master stress - all while improving your health and fitness.

The other day I was talking to my 9 year-old daughter and made some reference to a Big Mac. She looked at me and said “What’s a Big Mac?”

Hello everyone. It may seem like I’ve dropped off the end of the earth, but I haven’t. I was simply traveling to the far ends of it. I’ve been on three different international trips that have occupied 24 of the last 26 days.

Form and Function….Structurally, the shoulder girdle is one of the most unstable joints in the body due to the fact that it has to allow a large range of motion from lifting to pressing to rotating. Keeping the shoulder muscles strong prevents injury and maintains correct postural alignment. Aesthetically, strong shoulders look good and can create a great optical illusion: broader shoulders make the waist look smaller.