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Last week we discussed 8 great reasons why women should set up a gym at home.  From health concerns to improved workouts to saving time and money, there are a whole host of reasons to purchase home exercise equipment, whether or not you plan to leave the gym membership behind.  But what are the most important and versatile pieces of home exercise equipment that women should consider purchasing?

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Halloween is here…and seeing candy and sweets literally EVERYWHERE has you dying for some chocolately, pumpkiney, caramelly Halloween treats!   But don’t let all those treats spook you!  Making candy and other Halloween sweets at home allows you to eat clean, avoid processed sugar, refined flours and gluten and dairy if you so desire!

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Every physically active individual at one time or another has likely suffered an exercise related injury. I’m not talking about a pulled muscle, which generally improves within a few days, but a more acute muscle, bone, joint or tendon injury, or the dreaded back or neck pain.  These types of injuries tend to last a bit longer – weeks or even months.  They can complicate our active lives significantly and throw a major wrench into our fitness goals.

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Halloween is the first in series of upcoming fall and winter holidays that are full of sweet temptations.  That makes it a great time to learn some habits that will help you keep to your diet, whether your goal is to avoid eating treats entirely or to indulge moderately.

The challenge with Halloween is that the little bite sized candy bars and treats seem to end up EVERYWHERE.  First, you’ll have to buy some treats for the trick or treaters, and then they’ll be in your house. If you have kids, the candies may be around your house for several weeks (sometimes months) after trick or treat day. Finally, they’re probably also hanging around in the break room and on colleagues’ desks at work both before and after Halloween.

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A couple of years ago, had someone suggested to me that I skip my gym membership and work out at home, I would never have considered it.  I was convinced that I didn’t have the self-discipline to work out at home…that I needed to carry myself to the ‘sweat mecca’ in order to get myself to exercise.  There were some great things that I got out of the gym membership back then… group exercise classes, an almost confusingly wide array of strength training equipment and the collective energy of the hundreds of others that were sweating away with me.

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