Focus on purposeful recovery and its anxiety-reducing benefits. Taken together, all four pillars - mindset, nutrition, movement, and recovery - can help us manage anxiety in stressful times.
Category: Recovery
Celebrate the new season with one healthy change
It’s time to celebrate the work you’ve done to improve your health and fitness. Take a moment to think about all you’ve accomplished this year. Then, add one new healthy change from the following list of strategies from EXOS as you look ahead to the next season’s challenge!
4-Pillar Foundation Series: the importance of recovery for total health
Rest and recovery are an essential pillar of a healthy lifestyle. The EXOS 4-Pillar Approach highlights how mindset, nutrition, movement and recovery work together to establish a foundation for overall health and well-being. Of those 4 Pillars, recovery may be the most important. What is recovery? You’ve heard that it’s important to take breaks now...
Better Sleep Tonight, Healthier You Tomorrow
By Erin Covey, Mercy Fitness Personal Trainer Sleep is one of the most important things your body needs. A lack of good sleep can be a reason why you aren’t losing weight, get sick easily, or feel stressed. Check out some of the easiest ways you can achieve better sleep tonight. Unplug Your phone, TV,...
Whey Protein Isolate vs. Aminos
Learn the difference between these two products, and how to decide which is best for you. By Justin Klein, RD CSSD LD, Performance Dietician for EXOS at Mercy Fitness Center ————— Lean protein plays a key role in stabilizing our energy levels, providing nutrients to our bodies for recovery and repair, and protecting our immune...
Recovery Nutrition
Recovery nutrition has evolved into a science that combines carbohydrates, proteins, fluids, and electrolytes to ensure the body is refueled, re-hydrated, and has the raw ingredients necessary to repair and rebuild muscle tissue. It’s not a one-size-fits-all solution. The amount and ratio of nutrients varies with age, gender, body size, physical condition, and more. Use...