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Here’s How to Achieve Your Best Recovery From Exercise and Life. If you think about it, there are only two mains components to your life: the times that you are doing things, and the times that you are trying to recover from doing those things. Seriously. We go to work, go to parties, exercise, dance, … Read more

What is LifeWaves®, and How do we Create Health? Exercising and being healthy most certainly go hand in hand. But if you’re following our Wave Maker Community, you know that there is a better way to exercise, so much so that you can know if the exercise you are doing is making you healthier. The … Read more

What is Aerobic Exercise?

January 5th, 2012 | Posted by rfreilino in Exercise - (0 Comments)

Aerobics. The word alone conjures-up several vivid mental images and sounds; well, at least for me it does.  Neon spandex, tube socks, side pony tails, stair steppers and an instructor in the front of the class motivationally shouting, “Come on! You can do it! Just five more minutes!” So maybe I’m stuck in 1987, but … Read more

Depression and Recovery

December 8th, 2011 | Posted by rfreilino in Depression - (0 Comments)

What’s the Connection? Why is it that on dreary days we all feel like staying in bed with the covers pulled up over our heads?  I guess  that response isn’t too surprising, after all, as sunlight plays a major role in waking-up our brains every morning. Ryan, our COO, found a New York Times article, … Read more

False claims are made often.. And if you’re like me when it comes to health, then you definitely want to be healthy now and in the future. Sure it’s fun to be a healthy twenty-year old, but wouldn’t it just be fantastic to have that carefree trust in your physiological vigor when you’re sixty? As great … Read more

Yes, and did we mention vitamins can be worthless, too? I live in a small, quaint town in Northern New Jersey. Main Street is lined with trees, behind which stand nineteenth century brick buildings. If people knew that this is what Jersey looks like, I think that my state’s reputation would be quite different. Anyway… I’m … Read more

Run For Your Life

October 6th, 2011 | Posted by rfreilino in Exercise - (0 Comments)

But Do It Better So, I’m out to lunch with a friend the other day. Nothing unusual about it. A cool glass of pumpkin beer (to kick off the fall weather) and an organic salad complete with hard-boiled egg and sprinkled with bacon. Yummy. As my friend and I drift lazily through the conversation, he brings … Read more

Beating Poor Sleep and Insomnia

September 22nd, 2011 | Posted by rfreilino in Sleep - (0 Comments)

There’s Some Overlap Between Poor Sleep and Insomnia… The night has gone. Seriously. Ever look outside your window at 10:00pm? Most likely, you see a flood of light from street lamps illuminating the sidewalks, the neighbors’ outdoor property lighting ablaze, the local high school/university emanating that odd blue-white glow from the football stadium and the … Read more

Or Perhaps a Ménage à Trois. The warmth is waning and the cold is coming. Well, that’s what those of us up north are facing. Winter will be here soon, and with its advance comes the want to take vacations down south. For you southern hemisphere folks, hot weather and longer days are right around … Read more

What Comes to Mind When You Think of Summer? Perhaps your mental front-runners include sunshine, the beach, tans and farmers markets. Though these pleasantries help to create many smiling faces from June through September, a downside is often also present: a flare-up in allergies, bad smells (especially if you walk past garbage sitting on a … Read more