Healthy Tip of the Day: Anti-Aging Foods

Today's Healthy Tip comes from the girls at The Beauty Department. They have a post dedicated to foods that help keep your skin healthy, including a few recipes that are very simple.

Check it out here: http://thebeautydepartment.com/inspirations/


My favorite recipe is the Protein and Anti-Oxidant Smoothie:

10 oz coconut water
1/2 cup blueberries
2 tsp raw cacao powder
1 1/2 scoops of hemp protein

Blend, Ice, Enjoy!!!

Yoga Pose of the Day: Seated Yoga Mudra

If you just did the Exercise of the Day: Dive Bomber, you will really enjoy the Yoga Pose of the Day: Yoga Mudra.

Yoga Mudra is a chest opener, and a wonderful pose to do anytime you finish a workout involving push-ups or chest presses. Because we often activate our chest in motions we carry out every day (such as picking things up off the floor and simply sitting in front of our laptops),Yoga Mudra stretches benefits our body's wear and tear from daily activities in addition to strenuous workouts.

 

1-Begin sitting either cross-legged or sitting with on your feet, your things extended straight in front of you and parallel to one another. What seated position you use is determined by your comfort level and the condition of your knees.

2-Sit with a straight torso, being very aware of a stretch in your spine, grounding your hips in the floor, but extending your head to the ceiling. Make sure your chest and shoulders and active, shoulders away from your ears and working down into your back.

3-Clasp your hands together at your lower back.

4-Begin to lower your chest to your thighs. At the same time, pull with your hands so that your shoulders are stretching backwards, opposite of the direction your chest is moving. It is important that you keep leading with your chest and not your head, and try to keep your glutes resting in the same position.

5-When you have reached your deepest point of bend with your torso, make sure your arms are extended straight overhead.

6-Really pull with your hands, as if there is a rope attached to the ceiling pulling your arms and shoulders upwards, while you resist moving up with your chest.

Feel the stretch and release in your chest for five breaths.

7-Slowly inhale and bring yourself back up to the starting seated position. Remember not to roll your back-literally mimic the movement you used to bring yourself down.

Namaste.

Exercise of the Day: Dive Bomber

This week I'm going to be focusing a lot on the upper body. Today's Exercise of the Day is the Dive Bomber.

The Dive Bomber works your entire core and your chest, arms, and shoulders.


1-Start in a Downward Dog position. Push through your heels into the floor and create length in your back and legs. This is Step A in the picture.
2-Bring your upper body forward so that your shoulders are over your wrist.
3-Lower yourself into a tricep pushup/Chatarunga pushup, keeping your entire body activated. This is Step B in the picture.
4-When you reach the lowest point you can keep your chest hovered over the ground, push your chest forward, and bring your torso upright. You should be in Upward Dog Pose.
5-Bend your elbows near to your side and shift your upper body back into the hover position, as seen in Step B.
6-Push your glutes back and end in the Downward Dog position.

Do 12-15 repetitions of the Dive Bomber.

Enjoy!