April 2011 Blog Posts (47)

New fitness equipment creates a large emotional satisfaction when purchasing and for a short period after you return home. Brand new, clean, powerful fitness machines that promise to rock solid muscles and firmer bodies invoke Hugh dreams emotional for us all.



Think about it. Each New Year…

A yoga retreat is an intense, usually completed within a specified period, with a full day program. Time in retirement is one of the most effective ways to grow or start your yoga practice, since the removal of which is from the regular environment, develop and open.



As with any serious attempt to…

Were you looking for new workout for abs? Tired of training programs do not seem to work? After much research I A10 with the different movements that are likely to appear abs when done right



Before telling you a breakdown of the workout for abs first, let me make a few…

Our amazing Vega ambassadors continue to wow us with their passion, achievement, and dedication. Every month, updates will be shared from Vega’s impressive ambassador team.…

Yoga Flow Set



Yoga Flow is actually very simple. This is a series of positions together to produce movement. It can be used to warm; down or just cool to immerse them in a certain pose. The number and sequence of postures in this series can certainly depend on the teacher and this with them. …

I was reading a blog that I really enjoy today, www.lovelyandimperfect.squarspace.com and she was asking what we enjoy about spring.  My response just came flowing out. I’m ready for spring. I love spring! Not too hot, not too cold. I can’t wait to take my journal back out to the patio while sipping on coffee. Can’t wait for all my flowers to start to bloom again, such an array of color. I just love spring. The beautiful warmer days…

I was reading a blog that I really enjoy today, www.lovelyandimperfect.squarspace.com and she was asking what we enjoy about spring.  My response just came flowing out. I’m ready for spring. I love spring! Not too hot, not too cold. I can’t wait to take my journal back out to the patio while sipping on coffee. Can’t wait for all my flowers to start to bloom again, such an array of color. I just love spring. The beautiful warmer days…

Less than two months to go before the Test of Metal. I'm fine tuning my sleep patterns (when I can), hydrating every time I think about it, mixing longer training runs (for endurance) with shorter, more intense, higher-gear bursts. I mostly start my day off with a smoothie of fruit, Vega Sport Protein, MacaSure, and Chlorella, switching up with Vega Whole Food Health Optimizer occasionally.

While my diet has slowly been migrating to more veggie and fruit-centric, the longer and harder…

People with desk jobs, jobs with a lot of time to spend on the computer or other highly stressful jobs tend to have stiff shoulders. The reason is that when we're stressed, our muscles of the shoulder slightly to reflect this and also the most stressful situation of an impact. The muscles of the shoulder are…

So today was my first day of truly starting to eliminate soy, egg and milk completely from my diet and whew was it tough!  Although I've been gluten free for a year and a half now, and vegetarian for a month or two, I'm really doing this.  Excited for this new phase in my life, I know there will be set backs, disappointments and even some failures but in the end, I'll end up healthier than ever, and for that I can hardly contain my excitement. 

     I discovered the Thrive diet book…

So, i've been reading many many bad things about soy. Now, there's a good chance, these are over exaggerated, but I still feel there must be some truth behind it.

I've decided to go Soy-Free for a month, and see the difference:) I"ve been doing lots of recipes from Thrive, and taking lots of vega products! The sunflower/beat pizza is rediculously good. I add red lentils to it to further increase the protein in it:)

Sam

Earth Day, Friday April 22, is the largest, most celebrated environmental event worldwide. It’s a day where we should stop thinking about making our daily habits more eco-friendly, and actually do them. It’s a great time to start something new and reduce your own carbon footprint by starting your own compost.

Composting is a natural decaying process involving millions of micro-organisms which transforms garden clippings, leftover food scraps, leaves, etc. into rich organic…

Yoga helps to generate good support, expand, strengthen and maintain the alignment of the spine and muscles of the region itself Yoga strengthens your body including your abdominal muscles, which prevents them again, injuries and damage.



These yoga postures teach all parts of the body depend on its…

Now you can cross-train with yoga anywhere any time on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Yoga for Runners App was created for runners by a runner and yoga instructor. This is my third yoga App and I am thrilled that VEGA accepted to share some smoothie and home made energy bar recipes for the APP. …

Yoga has been prevalent today. So many people are involved. Most of them say that there are many benefits derived from the practice of yoga. Flexibility is one of the many benefits of yoga.



With the so many positions, a person may enhance his or her own physical well-being. Some say it acts as a…

I was visiting some friends in New Mexico this winter and they happen to be very experienced vegan cooks. I myself am not a vegan and was amazed at the possibilities and deliciousness of their varied diet! I was so inspired by their cooking that someone gave me a veggie/vegan cookbook! I hadn’t eaten this good in a while! I managed to get a few recipes from them including my favorite below. I have made it while camping 3 times since, each time improving on the other. It is very easy to make…