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Book Review: Rising Strong by Brené Brown
A few years ago, when I was first introduced to Brené Brown’s work I visited her website to learn more about the books that she had written. There she recommends that you read three…
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Finding Your Challenge
I set a goal last year to do 52 hikes in 52 weeks. I found an online hiking group called the 52 Hike Challenge and signed up to participate. After learning about the…
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8 Tips to a Healthy Holiday Season (It’s not what you think!)
We are in the mist of the holiday season. It can be easy to let the craze of the hustle and bustle of the holidays take over. It can leave us feeling…
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2022 Book Review Overview
Looking back over the books that I reviewed for 2022 there were some good ones and some ones that I didn’t particularly care for. It is always hard to recommend books to people…
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December Member Spotlight: Ed Albin
We are very happy to feature Ed Albin as our December Member Spotlight. Ed and his wife Nicole have been active members of Forward Fitness for many years. Participating in challenges, the OCR…
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Book Review: Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
The subtitle of this book is “Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness”. Throughout this book Magness is trying to redefine the stereotypical view of toughness. The author…
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8 Tips to be More Mindful This Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is only one day. One day of indulging in foods you normally would not eat is not going to kill all of your results if you get back to your routine…
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November Member Spotlight: Bryan Jack
We are excited to highlight Bryan Jack as our November Member Spotlight. Bryan is one of the friendliest people around. He has been very consistent with his workouts even when those workouts needed to…
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Book Review: Start With Why by Simon Sinek
As I have been reading more non-fiction motivational types of books there are a few authors that I repeatedly come across. Simon Sinek is one of those authors. I started following him on social…
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Going the Ultra Distance
On Saturday I ran my first ever ultra-race, The DeClue Loops 50K. If you don’t know what an ultra is (don’t worry I didn’t either until recently), it’s any distance over a…
