The Exercise Potato – A couch potato who exercises yet minimizes movement during the rest of the day.
Make “Funmin” Time
Get some “fun-min” time each day…we already have enough admin, laundry-min, grocery-min, etc. Take a few minutes for some fun with the ones you love.
Behavioral Shutdown
Why bother? A fair question we ask when life has a pattern of seemingly beating us down when we try. New view of depression & what to do about it.
Strong Rat. Smart Rat. Got That?
Brains of weight-trained rats resemble those of brains that had not been inflamed and impaired. New study shows brain benefits of resistance training.
#FuntensityChallenge 1
Side Lunge Catch – Funtensity Challenge #1. Try this for 10 reps per side. Adding reactivity and coordination to a common strength move increases the body and brain benefits!
Successes that Surprise You
What often gets you the most excited about fitness is when you find yourself doing something you didn’t set as a goal and weren’t sure was even possible. When you get fitter it happens broadly, making so many little things better that it is impossible to predict what they will be. We have our stated […]
Exercise Breakdown: Chicken Bucket
Time to look inside a Funtensity exercise and see just what makes it so fun and intense to do while providing a bonus boost of brain benefit. For this exercise, we use the Funtensity Rubber Chicken, a bucket (or two different size buckets) and a cone. Here’s a video that illustrates the exercise: How to […]
Fortune Favors the Cold
Sometimes several things align to present you with an opportunity too good to pass up. I am talking, obviously, about pond hockey. The Funtensity way of fitness and life is based on physical activity featuring reactivity, coordination, interactivity, and friendly competition. Another key concept is to choose forms of physical activity that you are so […]
Are you a Toe-Dipper?
Do you often have an all-or-nothing approach to fitness? Does this keep you moving forward and backward – never really making any real and lasting progress. It could be that you’re not following your own instincts about how best to try new challenges. We are all familiar with many of the popular motivational slogans such […]