#013RR Top 5 Tips and Tricks

This week we’re keeping it short and sweet with Daphnie's Top 5 Tips and Tricks for living your healthiest, most balanced life. What do pizza demons, Bugle fingers, and weight room dudes have in common? This episode, that’s what. Plus, Joanna tries to wiggle out of exercising with her “Excuse of the Week”.

Links in this episode: Free online Tabata timer, Article from the Washington Post about the benefits of a cut-off time, Buy a wide mouth Nalgene for power water, Get a mouthpiece too so your fruit doesn’t hit you in the face

#082 Eating for Power: Spring

Food is fuel AND fun! As the seasons change, how can we make our food work for us, rather than treating it like the forbidden fruit? (No fruit should be forbidden!) Daphnie explains what it means to eat for power, and she and Joanna share some of their favorite powerful spring dishes. Plus, Daphnie ruins Joanna’s life as usual in “Excuse of the Week”.

Links: Bok choy stir fry recipe, United States of Arugula, More-Vegetable-Than-Egg Frittata recipe, Chicken and Asparagus Lemon Stir Fry

#066 Warming Up

Are you cold? We’re cold. This week, we’re talking about how to warm up when we work out, and also how to just be warmer in life. From jumping jacks and leg swings to noodle soup and saunas, we’re pulling out all the stops to help you get the good kind of sweaty. Plus, Joanna tries to get out of exercising this winter in “Excuse of the Week”.

Links in this episode: How to do Seal Jacks, How to do High Knees, How to do Butt Kickers, How to do Leg Swings, Free warm up video from Fitness Blender, Heattech from Uniqlo

#058 Skin

Skin is super important: it’s the sack that holds all of our insides! It can also be the canary that tells us something isn’t right in the coal mine of our bodies. (Does this metaphor work?) This week, Daphnie tells us how to wash, what to eat, and whether or not to scrub in order to keep our skin attractive and effective. Plus, we talk about minor injuries in “Excuse of the Week”.

Links: Face wash with coconut oil and baking soda, Environmental Working Group Sunscreen Guide, Dry Brushing info from Goop (which is totally ridiculous but has lots of product links and I thought that might be helpful)

#047 Heart Health

Heart health is super important, and if you're under 40, just about no one is talking about it! It's easy to be so focused on losing weight and looking a certain way that we forget what's really important: prepping our bodies to lead long, healthy, awesome lives. What is your heart's job in the body? What is blood pressure, other than the squeezy part of a doctor visit? How can we use our heart rate to improve our fitness? We cover it all. Plus, Daphnie tells us to suck it up in "Excuse of the Week".

Links in this episode: Heart Disease facts from the CDC, Our episode on mouth health and how it relates to heart health, Blood pressure levels chart, Help to quit smoking in NYC, Map of heart disease dealths from CDC, Red dress campaign from The Heart Truth, Simple Polar heart rate monitor under $50, Karvonen heart rate calculator

#039 Building a Workout

We know we’re supposed to “work out” or whatever, but what does that even mean? If we can’t afford a personal trainer, how are we supposed to avoid getting in the rut of doing the same thing over and over? This week, Daphnie lays out how to build a workout plan: what kinds of workouts, how often, and when to pump up the intensity so we don’t plateau. Plus, she ruins Joanna’s Excuse of the Week.

Links: Elliptical video, Fitness Blender free workout videos, Tabata timer

#030 Getting Older

It’s Joanna’s 31st birthday, and we’re celebrating with some Real Talk about getting older. How do we feel about it? How do we talk about it, and do we maybe want to change that? What does it actually do to our bods, and how can we stay strong and sassy into our later years? Plus, Daphnie deals with Joanna’s very childish (but so real) Excuse of the Week.

#023 Should You Go Vegetarian?

There are a lot of reasons people go vegetarian: they don’t believe in eating animals, they want to lose weight, they want to be like Alicia Silverstone, whatever. So, should you? Joanna and Daphnie talk about the difference between going vegetarian for moral reasons and doing it for health reasons, and Daphnie causes a ruckus with her strong feelings about the subject. Plus, Daphnie talks Joanna through her Excuse of the Week.

#013 Top 5 Tips and Tricks

This week we’re keeping it short and sweet with Daphnie's Top 5 Tips and Tricks for living your healthiest, most balanced life. What do pizza demons, Bugle fingers, and weight room dudes have in common? This episode, that’s what. Plus, Joanna tries to wiggle out of exercising with her Excuse of the Week.

Links in this episode: here's an online Tabata timer Joanna likes

#003 Carbs!

Joanna and Daphnie talk carbs. What are carbohydrates and why does everyone seem so afraid of them? What’s the deal with Atkins, South Beach, and Paleo? What is a gluten, anyway? Plus, Daphnie helps Joanna get over her “Excuse of the Week” for why she isn’t exercising.