Marissa Furry, B.A., CHN, RYT200
Fitness Instructor
Focus: Overall Fitness, Yoga, Routine and Lifestyle change, Weight Loss, Woman's Health, Healthy Aging
Exercising doesn’t have to have an ‘end goal’: we don’t all want (or need) to look like body builders or professional swimmers. Many of us engage in exercise to feel our best, keep mobile, and stay healthy at the most basic level.
The success of any lifestyle, including diet and exercise, is finding something we love about it and pursuing it without condition. This means, with fitness, anyway, if you’ve tried the gym in the past, hated it, and dropped out, don’t go back! Why would it work the second time? Similarly, if you’ve cycled through seventeen home equipment sets and used sixteen-and-a-half of them, investing in a new rowing machine probably isn’t a good idea, either.
Did you know something as simple (and easy to fit into the day) as getting out for a brisk, ten-minute walk—especially in wintertime—increases blood flow to the brain, improves cognitive function, metabolism, sleep, immune function, and libido? Not to mention the benefits of weight management, circulation, bone health, mobility, and flexibility.
Find something you love to do, and stick with it. If you get the most joy out of organized sports and joining a running group, hiking a new trail, lifting weights at six in the morning at the local gym, or water aerobics with a friend, that’s exactly what you should do. Anything that makes us consider not showing up or is a chore to complete, is not going to work in the long run.
Adults should aim for three hours per week of exercise that makes us sweat, and should include (daily would be ideal) exercise that challenges our joints, increases flexibility (yoga, for example), and introduces resistance or weight-bearing exercise. This can be carrying your groceries up the stairs to your apartment, giving a piggy-back ride to your kids, or simply incorporating hand-held weights into an at-home practice. This increases bone density, muscle tone, aids in digestion and sleep, can slow down the aging process, and even improve your sex life—not to mention protecting our cardiovascular system, lowering our resting heart rate, and staving off obesity and other disease.
‘Fitness’ is not synonymous with ‘six-pack abs’. Through nutritional and lifestyle counseling, we can assess how your goals and nutritional needs intersect, and optimize implementing habits that will help you succeed!
I live in Grimsby with my partner and our three cats and dog. My self-care rituals include reading, hiking, traveling, yoga, and learning Russian. I am an environmentalist, minimalist, and low-waste crusader, and I hope to be living in my new tiny house next year!
Fitness Instructor
Focus: Overall Fitness, Yoga, Routine and Lifestyle change, Weight Loss, Woman's Health, Healthy Aging
Exercising doesn’t have to have an ‘end goal’: we don’t all want (or need) to look like body builders or professional swimmers. Many of us engage in exercise to feel our best, keep mobile, and stay healthy at the most basic level.
The success of any lifestyle, including diet and exercise, is finding something we love about it and pursuing it without condition. This means, with fitness, anyway, if you’ve tried the gym in the past, hated it, and dropped out, don’t go back! Why would it work the second time? Similarly, if you’ve cycled through seventeen home equipment sets and used sixteen-and-a-half of them, investing in a new rowing machine probably isn’t a good idea, either.
Did you know something as simple (and easy to fit into the day) as getting out for a brisk, ten-minute walk—especially in wintertime—increases blood flow to the brain, improves cognitive function, metabolism, sleep, immune function, and libido? Not to mention the benefits of weight management, circulation, bone health, mobility, and flexibility.
Find something you love to do, and stick with it. If you get the most joy out of organized sports and joining a running group, hiking a new trail, lifting weights at six in the morning at the local gym, or water aerobics with a friend, that’s exactly what you should do. Anything that makes us consider not showing up or is a chore to complete, is not going to work in the long run.
Adults should aim for three hours per week of exercise that makes us sweat, and should include (daily would be ideal) exercise that challenges our joints, increases flexibility (yoga, for example), and introduces resistance or weight-bearing exercise. This can be carrying your groceries up the stairs to your apartment, giving a piggy-back ride to your kids, or simply incorporating hand-held weights into an at-home practice. This increases bone density, muscle tone, aids in digestion and sleep, can slow down the aging process, and even improve your sex life—not to mention protecting our cardiovascular system, lowering our resting heart rate, and staving off obesity and other disease.
‘Fitness’ is not synonymous with ‘six-pack abs’. Through nutritional and lifestyle counseling, we can assess how your goals and nutritional needs intersect, and optimize implementing habits that will help you succeed!
I live in Grimsby with my partner and our three cats and dog. My self-care rituals include reading, hiking, traveling, yoga, and learning Russian. I am an environmentalist, minimalist, and low-waste crusader, and I hope to be living in my new tiny house next year!