Since I have been working in the festival scene for 2 years now, I’ve witnessed just about everything you can imagine. I try to be a friend to people when they need it. The one thing I notice every time is that SO many young women do not come prepared to music festivals. We can do better!
Continue reading The Smart Girl’s Music Festival Survival Guide
Massages are amazing. Throw a cannabis-infused topical oil into the mix, and I can almost guarantee you’ll be spoiled for life!
I had the pleasure of connecting with a local company here in San Diego that comes to you, for one of the most relaxing cannabis-infused massage experiences possible! Continue reading Your Next Massage Should Be Cannabis-Infused
Nobody likes to talk about bunions, but for runners they can be dangerous! Luckily, the feet in that x-ray image aren’t mine – but they could look like that if I’m not extra careful. Continue reading My Latest Fitness Goal? Avoiding Surgery.
I’m a scientist at heart. I’ll try almost anything twice, and that often includes items of questionable legality.
That’s why I eagerly accepted when I got an offer from SoulSpeciosa to give a few of their kratom strains a try. I’d heard a lot about kratom from some of my “weirder” Facebook groups, and was interested in finding out more about the herb’s pain-relieving and sedative properties. Continue reading I Tried Kratom: A Medicinal Herb with a Weird History
Fun times should never result in you being incapacitated and unable to work the next week, even if you did steal a kiss and ride the Ferris Wheel with some hot guy wearing only boxers and a unicorn head. Continue reading How To Prepare Your Body for a Music Festival
Swerve is a California edibles brand that really cares about the ingredients that go into their products. As they said to me, “There is nothing in our edibles that doesn’t have some kind of medicinal or nutritional value.” Learn more! Continue reading Swerve Confections Review: Effective, Wholesome Edibles!
My snowboard boots may need some more breaking in, but my new vape is ready to go. Continue reading Broken In: Vapium Summit Review
It sure can be annoying to wait, especially when you already feel hype from the pre-workout, but warming up the legs and core for even 15 minutes beforehand can really help build more muscle while preventing common running injuries. At the *bare minimum* you should be doing these five before your run! Continue reading The Essential Running Warmup
I do a lot to keep my muscles in shape for the heavy impact of running – from stretching and warmups to compression wear and various supplements and topical remedies. But something so basic that I was overlooking, and was recommended highly to me recently by a massage therapist, is really breathing new life into my legs and I have to share it! Continue reading Recovery 103 – Epsom Salt Baths
I’ve been through multiple broken bones, sprains, bruised tailbone, rotator cuff tendonitis, a chronic vertebral injury and lifelong knee pain, so I’ve learned a bit about pain management, and trust me when I say that nothing works as well as good old-fashioned TLC. Continue reading Recovery 102: R-I-C-E
Recovering from a tough workout is a science – there are so many different factors both before and after your workout that help determine how much benefit your muscles will get out of it, and in contrast, how sore you’re going to be the next day. Proper recovery techniques are also necessary to avoid both short- and long-term injury. Continue reading Recovery 101
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