Posts by Kim Clinkenbeard

Most Effective Exercise – Skipping

There’s a workout that doesn’t feel like exercise. It’s considered a total body workout, exercising major muscles and your heart. It’s skipping. Skipping offers many health benefits including improved muscle tone, coordination, balance and flexibility. It is kinder to your joints than running and can be done almost anywhere, anytime. In this video, I show you…

Easy Ways to Eat More Vegetables Every Day

Incorporating vegetables into every meal can be difficult for some people –  this is why smoothies are so great! Adding vegetables and fruit together usually masks the actual vegetable taste and allows you to get the vital nutrients from produce in its raw state. During the summer you can freeze your smoothies you have a…

How to Stay Hydrated When You Don’t Like Water

It’s no secret: I hate drinking water. I’m just not one of those people, and I’d usually rather be doing anything else. But I also know it’s good for me, and so the question then becomes how to stay hydrated even when you hate drinking water. If you’re not the biggest fan of water but know…

Best Seasonings to Keep Meal Prep Interesting

Meal prepping the same basic meal weeks in a row can be awesome when you’re first starting out, but as you probably know — that gets boring fast. And it makes meal prep A LOT harder to stick with. How do you keep it interesting without using up a ton of time learning new recipes…

Best Exercise for Weight Loss

I have been getting some questions lately about what is the best kind of exercise to do for weight loss or fat loss, which can be the same thing. I’m sure you’ll say my answer is a cheesy, cliche answer that you’ve heard before. But it’s true. The single best exercise there is, hands down, is the…

Best Sunscreens for Sensitive Skin

With summer now in full swing it’s time to talk sunscreen! But what sunscreen should you choose? Now it seems there’s at least half an aisle in every grocery or drug store dedicated to different sun protecting lotions. SPF 15? 30? 100? Mineral? Spray? Cream? Waterproof? Water-resistant? What does it all mean and what is…

Top 4 Ways to Beat Heat Exhaustion

The temps are high, and in many places so is the humidity. After an afternoon of running errands or working outside in the sweltering heat, you may find yourself exhausted with a banging headache wanting to sleep the rest of the day to recover. Heat exhaustion comes when the body cannot cool itself down enough to keep…

TOO HOT TO EXERCISE?

It’s HOT. Really HOT! As I’m writing this article the temperature is 103° today. Living in West Texas we are used to triple digits during the summer months. We know to get as much of our outside chores and activities finished before the hottest part of the day. However, there are just some weeks when…