American Family Fitness Blog

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Can Stress Be Good For You?

Can Exercise Strengthen Your Mental Health?

Embracing The Love of Fitness: Reframing Your Fitness Routine Around Self-Care

How To Stay Consistent In The Gym

3 Reasons Why You Should Become a Group Fitness Instructor

5 Ways to Simplify Your Workout and Maximize Your Results

Salmon + Strawberry = Summer YUM

Power Nutrients For Men And Where To Find Them

Your Summer Survival Guide For Body Positivity

Recipe Of The Month: Mixed Berry Smoothie Bowl

Why HIIT For Your Health?

This Salmon Recipe is SLAMMIN': Lemon Caper Baked Salmon

Lifestyle Tips to Decrease Stress and Anxiety

7 Food Cures to Reduce Anxious Eating

Nature's Medicine Box: 5 Healing Herbs and Spices

Greek-Style Braised Eggplant

Q & A: Fueling Performance with a Low Carb, High Fat Diet?

White Bean Blondies Recipe

Promoting A Positive Body Image

7 Ways to Reboot and Rebalance Your Health Routine

5 Ways to Overcome Overeating During the Holidays

So You Overindulged? Do's and Don'ts

4 Foods and (Their Alternatives) to Fuel Healthy Sleep

7 Sleep Hacks for a Better Night’s Rest

5 Reasons to Eat More Plants: Holidays and Beyond

Exercise Does Not Have to be Complex or Complicated.

Fin It To Win It! 5 Reasons To Swim With Fins

5 Ways to Reboot and Rebalance

6 Ways to Make Your Exercise Count

4 Tips to Boost Your Metabolism

8 Ways to Invest in Yourself

What Walking 10,000 Steps Does (and doesn’t) Do For You

Why ‘No Pain, No Gain’ is No Longer the Standard

How To Achieve Lasting Fitness Results

5 Reasons to Work Out with a Friend

The 10 Most Common Factors that Sabotage Fitness Goals

Body Positivity During Your Fitness Journey

Put Your Safety First

My Golden Ticket to Fitness

Running Myths About Strength Training

Getting Your Mindfulness Meditation Practice Started

Breathe Your Way Through Stress

How to Use Water to Reduce Stress and Soothe Your Mind

Does Frequency of Training Really Matter?

3 Moves Your Core Will Love

8 Reasons Why We Love the KidZone

Fall in Love with Free Weights

Moments Make Memories in Mechanicsville

Loving Your Relationship with Exercise

Make This One Change to Your Workouts

Fredericksburg Is Where the Family Is

Make Your Goals “S-M-A-R-T” to Make Yourself Successful!

5 Benefits of Taking Your Workouts to the Water

A Visit to Short Pump Will Get You “Pumped” Up

7 Things You Can Do to Help Beat the Winter Blues

3 Tips to Step Out of Your Fitness Comfort Zone

How to Stop Overeating Once and for All

5 Mobility Moves Your Body Will Thank you For

Best Ways to Push Past a Weight Loss Plateau

Cardio vs Weights vs Concurrent: What’s better for body comp?

Virginia Center “Not So Common”s

5 Things You Can Do To Shift From Attitude To Gratitude

Club – Highlight: AFF Williamsburg

 I Couldn’t “Out-Exercise” My Bad Eating Habits. 

What Should I Eat?

Do You Even Flow Bro?

Stick Around For The Cool Down: Why You Need Those Final 5 Minutes Of Your Group Fitness Workout

5 Reasons To Get Back In The Gym

It’s Better In Groups: Why Now Is The Time To Return To Group Fitness At AFF

How To Create A Home Workout Routine That Will Keep You Fit

Lifetime Achievement Award

7 Household Items That Double As Fitness Equipment

Your Guide to Smart Snacking

Staying Healthy When Working From Home

Dumbbell Workout

Improve Your Mental Health By Focusing On Physical Health

Can Your Stress Hurt Your Fitness Progress?

The One Muscle You Should Be Training At Home

Is This Our New Normal?

5 Ways To Check Yourself Before You Stress Yourself

What Happens to Your Body Composition When You Starve to Lose Weight

4 Reasons to Keep Exercising

Does a Cheat Day Undo A Week At The Gym?

Not Just Your Average Workout

The Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

ADAM: Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month

Do You Have the Guts?

The Anatomy Of A Diet: How To Tailor a Diet To You

Soluble vs Insoluble Fiber

Healthy Heart, Healthy You

How to Nourish, Repair & Build Your Muscles with Recovery Nutrition

Ten Fitness Tips to Rock Your 2020

Choosing the Right Milk Product for You

Five Easy But Impactful Resolutions For A Healthier You in 2020

Five Easy But Impactful Resolutions For A Healthier You in 2020

The Key to Making Positive Changes Stick

How to Fight Fatique

Beautiful Skin for the Holidays

Five Ways to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain and Still Have Fun

Timesaving Tips for Thanksgiving

Family Fitness Over the Holidays

AFF Strong Games

Ten Tips for Living with Diabetes During the Holidays

How Athletes Avoid Food Boredom When Eating Clean

5 Fall Foods with Mental Health Benefits

9 Impressive Health Benefits of Pumpkin

What Drives YOUR Hunger?

Group Fitness, What’s it all about?

How to Get Your Bliss

Does Healthy Competition Encourage Positive Habits?

The ABC’s of Kids Yoga

Fatigue: The Hidden Threat Keeping You From Your Health and Fitness Goals

4 Incredibly Insane Fitness Myths That Will NOT Drive Results

Are Sneaky Calories Undermining Your Progress?

Four Tips for a Healthy Summer

The Benefits of Structured Summer Fun

It’s Vacation Season – Are you Ready?

4 Ways to Celebrate Employee Wellness Month

Winning While Losing

Six Tips to Help You Run the Distance

Brain Nutrition : Food for Thought

Silver : The New Age of Fitness

Water Safety Month

How Do Different Exercises Impact Your Body Composition?

4 Vitamins Essential For Weightloss

Your Body and You: A Guide To Body Fat

Own Your Next Shot

When Appearances Are Deceiving

Unscrambling the Truth

What’s the Difference Between a Registered Dietitian and a Nutritionist

How to Stick to a Meal Plan that Works

What’s All The Hype About Celery Juice?

Keep It Simple

Heart to Heart: How Yoga Can Improve Heart Health

Get Started on a New You in AFF Group Fitness

How Time Works Against Your Body and What To Do About It

How to Make a Fitness New Years Resolution You’ll Actually Do

Are Carbohydrates Really Bad for Body Composition?

Six Ways to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain

Spotlight on Aquatics and Diabetes

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure

Summer Water Safety

Every Sip Counts

5 Myths About Girls and Weight-Lifting

The Appetite Regulators: 7 Ways to Control Your Hunger Hormones

8 Things That Happened When I Started Personal Training at American Family Fitness

The Secret Sauce: Color-Coded Cardio

12 Tips for Mastering the Holidays

New Blood Pressure Guidelines Released – Six Ways to Lower Your Number

How to Make the Most of Your Gym Membership

Sugar, Sugar Everywhere

Working Out In Groups: Your Ticket to Commitment

A Surprisingly Easy Abs Workout You Won’t Mind Doing

3 Challenging Swimming Workouts for Any Level

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