Body Hacks

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How To Prioritize Rest When Your Life Is Filled With Stress
In this day and age, it’s easy to feel like the world is moving at 100 miles an hour. Catching your breath when the rest of the world is on fast forward can seem like an impossible task and before long you might simply give in, get up to... Read more
These 6 Daily Tasks Will Boost Your Mental Power
Daily habits; we’ve all got them and for the most part, we’re all attached to them. How we spend the mundane parts of our day rarely changes and over time, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. Are you using your time as efficiently as you could be?... Read more
What would you give to kick your bad habits? Smoke, eat mindlessly, pick your nose? Believe it or not, there’s a wearable for that. When we first heard about Pavlok, it screamed BodyHacks in the most shocking way. For $200 dollars, more than most even your high-end fitness trackers,... Read more
Got $20? Buy the Teclast H30 Fitness Wearable
All the other kids have wearables, even though you suspect most of them just wear them to look cool. You wouldn’t if you had one. It’s just a matter of cash flow. Yours seems to only go one direction, out your pockets. If there were only some way you... Read more
Taking It Easy: Why Your Rest Days Are Really Important
Keeping up with your fitness program is one of the best ways of boosting your health. Constantly pushing your body to its limits, however, can result in fatigue and exhaustion if you’re not careful. Taking a rest day is often as good for your health as working out and... Read more
Setting the Record Straight: Six Deadlifts You Should Do
It’s no secret. I love deadlifting like I love chocolate. My dream deadlifting set would be drop-sets, with plates made of chocolate. I would eat the plates between sets as I dropped the weight. That’s possibly the silliest idea I’ve ever had. Back in the real world, we deadlift... Read more
How To Keep Your Body In Prime Shape
Keeping your body in good shape for the future starts right now. The kinds of activities that you carry out in your youth can have a significant effect on the type of health that you can enjoy in later life, so don’t be afraid to start your long term... Read more
Apple’s Watch 2 Rumor Mill Heats Up
The best rumor in wearables right now is we can blame Apple for the slowdown in sales. If there has been a slowdown in the wearables market, somebody should tell the virtual reality folks. Just sayin’. Despite what seems to be an accelerated bad attitude in the media towards... Read more
How To Make The Most Out Of Your First Yoga Class
Yoga. We’ve all heard about its benefits for the body and mind but how many of us have actually tried a class? Getting into yoga might be one of the best things that you do this year, helping you to stay calmer, build your strength and clear your mind.... Read more
Cupping: Real Treatment or Real Silly?
Leave to Michael Phelps to stimulate controversy. Fans will remember the press fanfare around Phelps smoking from a bong in 2008. It should come as no surprise that this year’s Olympics has the press waiting for Phelps to do something newsworthy. They found it. Pictures of Phelps’ back with... Read more
Live Well: The Healing Power Of Almond Oil
Nature is treasure trove for your body and mind. Packed full of healing and restorative foods, the natural world is the first place you should look when you have something you need to get sorted. Is hair, skin and body is your thing? Look no further than almond oil.... Read more
Swinger Life: 5 Wearables Purely for Golf
Because every sport needs it’s own wearable, even volleyball, golfers have their own technology corner. For a sport as highfalutin as golf, it’s no surprise that the number of wearables is endless. Simply put, golfers like gear. For what is an otherwise simple sport, golf marketers understand golfer’s need... Read more
Attention Adopters! Track Everything with Wearable Ecosystems
With wearables, there are two types of people: those who are into them and those who are not. The former subdivides, but for simplicity sake, we’ll lump them into one category: adopters. Yeah, like early adopters… just less wordy. Adopters rush headfirst into technology. Expect they will be the first using ecosystems.... Read more
Breathe Deep: How To Cleanse The Air In Your Home
Your lungs are one of the most precious organs that you have, so why would you not want to purify the air that you breathe? While the environment might be filled with the toxins of daily life, your home is your own space to control and when it comes... Read more
The Problem With the 10,000 Steps Target
Goal setting is a funky process. That said, it’s a process. You’re never done honing or resetting your goals. They’re personal. The 10,000 steps rule is anything but personal. Adapting it as an absolute is the quickest route to wasting your time. Before I get accused of being the backlash for... Read more
Wellbeing: 5 Simple Ways To Be Happy and Healthy
Feelings of health and happiness influence each other, so why do so few of us focus on our physical well being over our psychological health? Making the most out of yourself starts from the inside out and by concentrating on how you feel within yourself, you can improve the... Read more
Can’t Get Into Meditation? Here’s How To Find A Way Around It
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re likely to have heard about the powers of meditating. Helping you to get into better touch with your body, meditation has peaked in popularity over the last few years and now, the healthy world has well and truly taken it under... Read more
How To Keep Cool During Hot Summer Nights
The sun is out, the temperature is high and all you want to do is spend your time outside. While hot days and warm nights make summer what it is, high temperatures when you’re trying to hit the hay can keep you up long into the early hours. Keeping... Read more
You Need To Stop These Toxic Habits
Making a real change in your life starts from the inside out. The types of habits that you pick up over time can be hard to shed but if they’re not doing anything positive for your health, it’s in your best interests to shake them off as quickly as... Read more
Water Worries: Busting Common Myths About Hydration
Thought that you knew everything there was to know about hydration? You might just be in for a surprise. Getting your fill of water – particularly when it’s hot – is vital to your body functions and general health, helping you to keep going throughout the day. While you... Read more