Welcome back to another #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! This week’s amazing benefit from working out is Weight Management! Exercise is a highly effective way to prevent excess weight gain and help maintain weight loss. When you engage in physical activity, you burn calories. The more intense the activity, the more calories you burn. It’s that simple. Combine exercise with a nutritious diet and you’re on your way baby! Regular trips to the gym are great, but don't worry if you can't

Welcome back to another #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! This week’s amazing benefit from working out is Flexibility! Flexibility is a vital component of fitness, and does wonders for people with paralysis who want to minimize muscle spasticity. Maintaining your muscles is important for preventing injury during everyday activities, for allowing your joints to work optimally and move through their greatest range of movement. I talk about Yoga a lot because it’s incredibly effective f

Welcome to another #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! This week’s amazing benefit from working out, is maintaining Bone and Joint health. “Craaaack!” OMG!@$&# Was that my knee or my shoulder!?! Smh I’ve been using a wheelchair since 2002 and just a couple of years ago my doctor told me I had Osteopenia. I was losing bone. I got right on reversing the effects of bone loss. As we get older you may notice more achy joints and cracking bones. Weight bearing is necessary for strong bones a

Welcome to the first #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! I've heard from people in wheelchairs say things like " workout for what? I’m never gonna walk again." Working out is about so much more then regaining the ability to walk. Over the next six months I'm going to highlight all of the amazing benefits of daily exercise for people walking or rolling. # 1 Relieves Stress Fell out your chair again? Had a rough day at the office? Yeah, me too. One of the MOST common mental benefits of e

Welcome back for this week’s #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! Today I’ll be highlighting yet another amazing benefit of daily exercise for people Rolling or Walking. This weeks Workout For What reason is... #2 Boost Happy Chemicals Slogging through a few laps in the walker with a trainer can be tough, but it’s worth the effort! Exercise releases endorphins, which create feelings of happiness and euphoria. Yes! Euphoria is an extremely blissful state that you can reach through exerci

This weeks #WorkoutForWhatWednesday! is very personal. You know what I hear all the time? “ Krystina, you’re never gonna walk again, why are you working out? Because Kimmie asked me to walk. Because she doesn’t know the injury was 17 years ago and doctors said I would never walk. Because she’s 3 and still believes in magic...and so do I. For those of you with little ones around who have never known you before you couldn’t walk, they don’t understand why. The little ones will