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With summer well underway, many days will be spent bathing in the sun or dipping in the water as people find ways to enjoy warm weather, relax, and replenish. But while we all spend time soaking up the sun, the time may be ripe for thinking about how to refresh and renew our bodies from the inside out.
Cleanses and detox diets have become a growing fad over the past few years, but while some cleanses require diligent planning and almost dangerously low levels of food intake, other cleanses offer a comprehensive way to revitalize your mind and body from the inside out, expelling toxins, and gently renewing a sense of energy and vitality that can keep you going and glowing. A summer of indulgence can be overcome with just a short spell of discipline.
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There is nothing new under the sun, and certainly core training is one of those "nothings". Core training has been a point of emphasis, a central focus, in the world of movement for quite some time. There is a reason for this: the core has everything to do with everything we do. Traditionally, the core has been known as the abdominals. This is true, but is only part of the whole. The body's true core is everything from the nose to the toes, which explains why the middle, the abdominals, has been the main focus. If there is more to the core than the abdominals, then that raises the question: What is the best way to functionally train the true core?
We, as human beings, function (move) in all three planes of motion. As we move, there are three groups of twos that drive our motion: Our two eyes, our two feet, and our two hands.
Take walking down the sidewalk as an example. We see with our two eyes where we are going allow our two feet to take us where we are going, and utilize our hands to facilitate momentum to get us where we are going.
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Lawrence Biscontini, one of SCW Fitness Education’s longest serving faculty members will soon be unveiling a brand new book called Meals and Musings. Below, Lawrence explains the inspiration behind his latest work, a personal, passion project that envelopes yet another fundamental factor of fitness and well-being: food.
My first book out in the 1990s, The One-Percent Factor: An Eccentric Unicorn’s Approach to Touring and Traveling, details my love of trips, outlining my metamorphosis from tourist to traveller. Among the common threads that weave that book together, food is one of them. Coming from an Italian family where food is the main staple reference point for mothers and fathers to tell if the child is “content and full,” my parents always used food to tell if I was healthy.
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