Fitness

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging on and a big part of it involving throat and chest pain, you may be starting to rethink your smoking habits. You might be thinking that supporting your body’s full health is what you want to do. Quitting smoking can reduce anxiety , lung damage, and throat pain significantly. Quitting cold turkey may actually work against you. Sometimes, when you quit smoking this way or very quickly, you can develop the smoker’s flu. This describes the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. This is not an infectious disease, even though we are in the middle of a pandemic. According to VeryWell Mind , this is “the natural process your body goes through while transitioning to life after quitting” . Why does this happen to your body when you quit smoking? We researched the symptoms of smoker’s flu so you know the difference in this important time and how to fix them. Keep reading for more! Image: Mikail Duran via Unsplash What Are The Symptoms of Smoker’s Flu and Why Do W...

Happy Monday to our amazing readers and their zodiac signs! As we scroll through Instagram and find memes that we associate with our own unique zodiac signs, we start to wonder … how much of this is actually true? Fire signs are dynamic, fun, and always up for a party. Earth signs heed balance and get realignment to move through the world. We hear all of these unique personality traits and wonder how much of this type of horoscope works for us? While your natal chart may read more into what you’re like in each and every circumstance, your sun sign is a good base to start with. According to Allure , “y our sun sign is determined by your date of birth and represents your core personality, sense of self, basic preferences, and ways in which you move through the world. This astrological placement sheds light on your intrinsic gifts, as well as your blind spots.”  Rather than do a weekly horoscope this week, we wanted to share with you some interesting information about your own, u...

The way we work out has completely changed due to COVID-19 . Some of us have taken a break from the gym, are on our work-out grind, or trying to stream our favorite work-out classes from home. No matter where you are, it’s safe to say that we miss exercise like crazy! Gyms and work-out classes have had to adjust to the pandemic’s demands and this New York City offering free online classes to help you stay fit, at home. Chloe de Winter , Pilates instructor, and educator is offering virtual classes from the comfort of your living room. With a Master’s degree in Physiotherapy Practice and Bachelor’s Degree in Health Science, this wellness expert is the perfect person to get your Pilates on during quarantine ! Image: Chloe de Winter How Chloe Began Offering Free Pilates Classes When COVID struck, Chloe found herself stranded in Australia (where she is from) and away from New York where she had been working as the Director of Teacher Training at one of New York’s premier Pilates stud...

We’ve all been there. You wake up after a night of drinking and feel like garbage. While a couple of glasses of wine sound great at 8 pm, the hangover is so not worth it sometimes. For this reason, many are turning to the CBD market. According to Healthline , CBD is comprised of the following. “Cannabidiol—known as CBD—is one of over a hundred active compounds or cannabinoids found exclusively in the cannabis plant. CBD acts as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory, which reduces pain and inflammation . It’s been used for centuries to successfully provide pain relief to muscle aches, arthritis, joint pain, neuropathic conditions, headaches, and to aid skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis, rosacea, even sunburn, and bug bites when used topically.” CBD edibles are taking center stage and we can’t agree with their popularity more. We’re obsessed with a few that we can’t wait to recommend to you. These CBD edibles are flavorful, work super well, and incredibly fun. Keep reading for the...

Happy Monday! Sporteluxe here with your weekly horoscope for September 14th through September 21st. Libra season is arriving faster than you think.  Can you believe September is almost over? Can you believe we’ve been in the midst of a crazy planetary shift from almost 9 months now? It is the Age of Aquarius after all. Mars is officially in retrograde, so we’re holding ourselves ready to experience a setback. Even though we feel this way, it’s growth, so don’t fret too much about it. Keep reading for your weekly horoscope . Image: Pixel Parker via Unsplash Your Weekly Horoscope Aries: Has a slower pace exhausted you, Aries? Us too. You must remember to live in the moment and use your time wisely. There will come a day that you feel as if have none. Taurus: Mars is officially in retrograde, Taurus! That means you have to be careful about immediately reacting to situations. Whether it be a spur of the moment indulgence or anger, you’ve got to stay connected to your groun...

While many of us are stuck at home , we’re missing key daily parts of our lives. One thing we wish we had? The gym. While HIIT and some good cardio are easy to do without equipment , there’s just something about being able to do strength training. BoxUnion has the solution. They’ve engineered five simples moves you can use at home to increase strength while we don’t have access to the gym , a special BoxUnion workout for Sporteluxe. Below are the moves you can add to your current training to really level up your at-home workout. Beth Gold from BoxUnion gives us an incredible workout with no equipment at all. Beth Gold is a personal and group fitness trainer based out of NYC with an emphasis on boxing and strength training. Currently teaching boxing class on BoxUnion Digital . Beth is also a certified personal trainer through NASM. NASM is a certified functional strength coach through CFSC as well as a pre/postnatal certified trainer through Pronatal Fitness. This BoxUnion Workout...

Living a more sustainable life is vastly important to the survival of our planet. If you’ve taken an interest in how connected our planet is lately, you’ll see that almost everything we do to it has an impact on how Earth does in the future. Plastic , carbon emissions, even drug use (we highly suggest checking out Connected on Netflix to see how our sewage affects aquatic life) make Earth more and more uninhabitable. We need to collectively, as a species, agree on the green legislature that moves us forward, not backward. While we’re waiting for our government to make moves, we can start to be more sustainable. Money moves mountains, folks! If humans like us consumed more plant proteins, wasted less, and took public transportation, we could change the world. We’ve come up with 15 different ways to be more sustainable, and it’s not really as hard as you think. Keep reading for more. 15 Easy Ways To Be More Sustainable 1) Stop with the use of plastic utensils and get yourself a set...