Kimora Chanel

Holistic Wellness and Empowerment Coach

3 Ways You’re Doing Fitness Wrong and How You Can Fix It

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When starting a fitness journey, it’s important to allow yourself time to mentally, physically, and emotionally transition into this new lifestyle. Whether this is to lose a certain number of pounds, build muscle all over your body, or to improve a specific area of your body, you must allow yourself time to get there.

We often think that the fastest way to get the fitness results that we so desperately desire is by going on a diet immediately, or joining a gym that we will never 100% commit to. Do not do this or else you will be setting yourself up for failure! Instead, make a commitment to adopt a new lifestyle and leave your old habits behind.

In today’s post I’m going to share with you three ways you are approaching your fitness journey wrong and how you can fix it.

When starting a fitness journey what are goals that you set for yourself right off the back? Maybe it’s to lose a certain number of pounds, to build muscle all over your body, or possibly to even improve a specific area of your body. Whatever your fitness goals may be, build a lifestyle around it instead of committing to temporary practices.

Jumping into the newest diet trend or paying a month gym membership when you don’t even like going to the gym, is not the right way to start your fitness journey. Especially if you want to see results that are not going to be temporary, but are going to last. When we adopt the mindset of having to immediately start a diet and join a gym, we are potentially setting ourselves up for failure right off the back. This is because we are thinking of achieving fast and immediate results, and not necessarily the lifestyle commitment needed in order to truly be as healthy as we possibly can be.

I’m here to help you ditch these old habits! Here are three fitness mistakes you may be making and how to fix them.

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Intermittent Fasting: What Is It and Why You Should Consider It

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Do you have a desire to lose weight, improve your heart health, adopt a healthier diet, or just create a healthier lifestyle overall? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you are going to want to hear what I have to say. In today’s post we are going to be talking about intermittent fasting, the latest health trend that seems to be taking the world by storm.

Do you know what intermittent fasting is?

Intermittent fasting is a fasting practice designed to improve your overall health cycle. This is done by creating a personalized eating pattern that consists of a fasting period, where you go a certain number of hours not eating anything, and a non-fasting period, where you eat between a certain time frame during the day. Intermittent fasting is broken down into three different types of fasting, which we will dive a little deeper into later in this post.

If you haven’t heard of intermittent fasting, I’d like to say that you are not alone, but you just might be. This has been the latest popular trend in the health and fitness industry, and honestly a lot of everyday people are giving this a try as well. People practice intermittent fasting for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most popular ones are to lose weight, improve their health, and alter their lifestyle for the better.

Honestly this practice is pretty straight forward but because there is no one straight way you can practice it, it can get a little complicated in regards to knowing which style of intermittent fasting is right for you, and determining the appropriate time frames to eat and fast that work best for you. Therefore, we are going to take a deeper look at what intermittent fasting is, how it can help with your health, and the different ways in which you can practice it. [Read more…]

Halloween Pumpkin Fitness Challenge

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It’s finally Fall!!!

I love the Fall! It is easily my favorite season ever! Not only because of the leaves changing colors, the crisp cold air (even though it’s not great for my asthma), the warm sweaters, the cozy boots, the prefect excuse to start drinking hot chocolate before the wintertime, or even all the movies that I get to cuddle up in my bed every night and watch. It’s my favorite season mainly because my favorite holiday is finally on the horizon!

That’s right, I’m talking about Halloween!

I absolutely love Halloween, always have and always will. I love the spooks, the scares, the movies, the candy even though I tend to only eat the snicker bars (the best candy ever), the dark nights and the greyish mornings. I love everything about it and I’m so happy that October is on the way.

In honor of preparing for my favorite holiday during my favorite month and my favorite time of year, I’ve put together a fun little Halloween Fitness Challenge for you. However, beware that this isn’t just any ol’ fitness challenge. Oh no. It’s a Halloween themed fitness challenge where every Sunday there will be a pumpkin challenge workout for you to complete.

It’s going to be so fun!

And don’t worry this challenge is completely beginner friendly, so no matter what your workout level may be, you too can take part in this challenge.

So, what is the pumpkin workout? Don’t worry I’m going to let you know exactly what it is. But first, I’ve got some Halloween tips to help you stay healthy and fit this October. Check them out below! [Read more…]

8 Of the Best Workouts for Introverts

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Are you the type of person who loves participating in activities but don’t necessarily love the company of others? If so, you and I are one in the same.

I love, love, love working out, going on long walks, doing yoga, following stretching videos, and pretty much anything that will keep my physically active while working on bettering my health. Recently I’ve even fallen in love with hiking, which is something that I do think ultimately, I could do on my own. I will be the first to admit that while I do enjoy doing a lot of activities by myself, there are days when I also love having company.

But for the most part I enjoy working on bettering my health with my own company.

This is mainly because I feel that there is no pressure to do well, to succeed, or to even extend my workout session out of fear of not being able to keep up with others. This is just a few of the reasons among many as to why I enjoy working out by myself, and honestly even in the comfort of my own home. I’ve been working out at home and alone for nearly a year now and I find nothing to be more liberating and more self-motivating.

Of course, there is always the option of going to the gym by yourself and working out alone, but honestly there’s just something different and more intimate about doing it in the comfort of your own home, where for the most part you don’t have to be surrounded by anyone else. Or am I the only one who feels this way? Anyways, in honor of being an introvert who loves to work out, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite workouts to do, and workouts that I’m interested in trying, in the comfort of my own environment and for the most part all by myself.

Check it out below! [Read more…]

3 Ways You’re Doing Self-Care Wrong

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I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz about how important self-care is.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while now then you know that I constantly talk about self-care and why it’s so important. Even if you’re not hearing about the importance of self-care from my blog, or the internet, or any form of social media, chances are you’re hearing about it somewhere.

There used to be a time when I was so confused about why everyone would talk about self-care so much. I’d go to the doctor and my doctor would always tell me to make sure that I was engaging in self-care. I’d hear it from my teachers all the time (college and graduate school), that self-care was so important and it was something we needed to do more of in order to be the best therapist, coach, counselor, or whatever we wanted to be, that we could be.

Believe it or not I even got told from my acting teacher about the importance of self-care, and that we (her students) needed to be doing it as often as we possibly could.

Self-care has been a popular topic in my life for a while now, and honestly up until about a year ago I wasn’t even the best at it. In fact, I had no idea what self-care was, what it looked like, or what constituted for self-care, that I didn’t even start engaging in it religiously until earlier this year. This was because it took me a while to really understand just exactly what real self-care meant, and to identify what that looked like for me. [Read more…]

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