Posted by Kelly Rider on November 17, 2010 under Fitness, Healthy Living
Breathing. It’s something you do from the moment you are born. Nothing to it! Yet, how is it that most of us don’t breathe efficiently. We have trouble breathing deeply, and instead take shallow breaths that don’t fully engage the diaphragm and abdomen.
Learning how to breathe deeply and efficiently is actually important to your workouts and to your health. Scuba divers know it, and so do long-distance runners, who train their breathing much as they train their muscles. Efficient, deep breathing brings oxygen and energy to your cells, making them more capable of working to the best of their ability. Correct breathing while exercising gives you more oxygen and energy to complete your movements. Inefficient breathing, or worse, holding your breath, creates a deficiency of oxygen that can quickly make your movements and exercises labored — or even dangerous.
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Posted by Tracy Ilene Miller on November 5, 2010 under Healthy Living, Lifestyle, Making choices, Parenting
People told me I was crazy to begin a graduate program three months after giving birth. But graduate school offered me an opportunity that my full-time job did not — to give up only four or five hours of daylight time with my daughter to one-on-one care while I pursued my degree. The tradeoff of working long nights (into early mornings) was well worth it. Essentially, by being in graduate school, I was able to stay home enough hours to avoid daycare until she was almost two and a half.
Of course, her delight in attending preschool did not completely ease the nervousness of leaving my child every day in a facility that was not my home. At home, I could direct and monitor all her care and her needs, including when she napped, how often her diaper was changed and when and what she ate.
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