Indy Summers
Bio
Indy Summers is a freelance writer interested in fashion, healthy living, and fitness. She has worked as an esthetician, as a personal trainer, and as a freelance model for several years.
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Foods That Can Help Boost Testosterone Naturally
While it may sound cliché, it is important to fuel your body before, during, and after your workouts to get the most out of your time spent in the gym. Obviously, dietary needs can vary from person to person, but it is always a good idea to consume healthy carbohydrates and proteins. Lastly, you should aim to limit saturated fats as they can quickly derail your fitness goals. If you only have a few minutes before your workout, consider eating fruit. It is an easily digested carbohydrate that provides you with enough energy to get through most gym routines. Protein, on the other hand, is ideal for post-workouts, and can help stimulate hypertrophy. In this article, we will take a closer look at testosterone-boosting foods, what they are, and how they can improve your workouts.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Feast
Tips for Staying Motivated to Work Out
It has become common knowledge that exercising on a consistent basis will keep our minds and bodies running at their best and fullest capacities. Despite this knowledge, sometimes we have trouble staying motivated to stick to an exercise routine. Things like work, kids, and keeping the house often take precedence over it. However, there are a few small changes that can be made that would not only fit into your daily routines, but give you the incentive to become more committed to your work-outs.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Longevity
What to Watch Out for When Hiking
It is more than just wandering around aimlessly. It is more than just an excuse to get your steps in, or drawing a picture on the map of your exercise tracker. When you are out in nature, nothing around but the air and sounds of the woods and wildlife, it is peaceful and invigorating. You just have to be outside to be in nature, and be able to listen to yourself as it mingles with the world—the actual world. The world that matters. But, as beautiful as it is, nature can be subtly dangerous. Fatal even (not to sound like a horror movie trailer...). Be in tune with nature, but be careful. Know what to watch out for when hiking. To get all you can out of your hikes, know how to prepare. Aside from packing the right equipment for any given excursion, there are three things you should focus on if you wish to stay safe on, and return from, a hike.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Wander
Five Nutrients for Your Mental Health
Nutrients are an important part of your health. They are compounds found in food, and are essential to human life. There are five major nutrients to that cannot be overlooked: carbohydrates, lipids (or fats), vitamins, water, and minerals. Making sure we are getting plenty of these nutrients will keep our bodies functioning properly, and ensure that we have plenty of energy to fulfill our daily activities. Here is what you need to know about these amazing nutrients, and how they are paramount to our health.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Longevity
Health Issues in Aging Adults and How to Combat Them
As you get older your body begins to change. You will start to find grey hairs, more brittle nails, and new skin marks. At first, this can seem concerning, but as you age you will find that there are many new things that your mind a body will learn to adjust to. Here is a list of some of the common health problems that you could face as you get older, and how to fight these ailments.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Longevity
Tips for Motivating and Pushing Your Husband to Reach His Goals
You can find a thousand ways to reach your goals, but helping someone you love reach theirs doesn't come with a manual. We all want to see our husbands happy, and with a sense of well being. It's just good for their souls. We want to be their strength, especially if we see that they are kind of stuck in a rut. Nagging is undoubtedly not the way to motivate them, and it does nothing for the health of your marriage. Nurturing your marriage should always come first. You want to be a positive source of strength for your husband, someone he can count on for better or for worse. So, how do you help your husband reach his goals without being too pushy? Here are a few real-world suggestions that will get you started, and the rest tends to fall into place naturally. You develop an unspoken rhythm that will take a life of its own as long as you remain supportive and head in a positive direction.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Humans
7 Reasons a Dog Will Bring More Joy to Your Life
Any dog owner will tell you that the time they spend with their tail-wagging friend is responsible for much of the joy in their life. In fact, eight out of ten dog owners say the greetings from their dogs make it easier for them to awake in the morning. Seven out of ten people say they are happier because of the dog in their life and 93 percent of dog owners polled say they are better people because they own a dog.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Petlife
Unique Ways to Improve Your Well-Being
Whether you're feeling run down physically, emotionally, or mentally, it can be difficult at times to get yourself back to feeling well again. Thankfully, there are many tried and tested methods that can bring you back into balance, and feeling right again. As we all know, if you're just not feeling right it can cause problems at work, strain your relationships, and even wreak havoc on your personal finances. Taking steps towards feeling well should always be a top priority in your life, something that you always set aside time for.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Longevity
How to Stand Out in Law School
You made it through your undergraduate and you passed through the grueling application process. You may think that all of your work is done, but the work is just about to begin. Law school is going to be different from college, just like college was different than high school. There will still be tests and papers and thinking until your head hurts, but there will be some things that are different from college. You will get to take classes that are all specific to law and the practice of it so there will not be general classes that cover geology or humanities. This is good because you can focus on what you want to practice—law—but the classes will go into a lot more depth than your previous college classes did.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Education
How to Set Realistic Fitness Goals
Goals are important to have We make goals to help us make it through our schooling, we have goals in work, and we have goals for our fitness levels. They help us to have something that we’re reaching for--something that motivates us to change the way that we live. Some of the hardest goals for people to hit are fitness goals. This is because we set them too high, or we have unrealistic expectations going into achieving the goal. This creates a spiral downward because we set ourselves up to fail over and over again. To break the habit of failing your fitness goals, what you need to do in order to set a goal that you’ll succeed at.
By Indy Summers5 years ago in Longevity