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1 week ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 31, 2025 We had a great Lunch and Learn at the J.F. Hurley Family YMCA a week ago. It was about stress management and mindfulness techniques. Tai Chi Grand Master Craig and I were the speakers for this lunch and learn. I love teaching about stress management and mindfulness because when I do, I do so much better myself. We all have stress in our lives. When you try to eliminate stress, you will find out that stress will become so much worse.
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3 weeks ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 17, 2025 I always believe that exercising should be first for your health and independence. Looking better should be a secondary goal. When you do all the things for a healthy lifestyle, looking better will be a great byproduct. So, what does this mean? Make sure your workouts include cardiovascular work, strength training, flexibility, and of course, a sensible healthy diet.
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4 weeks ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 10, 2025 It doesn’t seem to matter what study they come up with, exercise is always part of the regimen, and sometimes even the solution. Everyone knows that when you don’t use it, you lose it. Health is one of the greatest priorities, and you must take charge of it yourself. As with anything, the first step is typically the hardest.
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1 month ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 26, 2025 Do you know what your IT band is? And it can cause all kind of problems when too tight, and/or inflamed. IT stands for iliotibial. It’s a thick band of connective tissue, that runs from the hip bone on the outside of the leg to the knee and shinbone. Iliotibial band syndrome is a condition that results in pain on the outer side of the knee. When you follow the IT band down the side of the leg, it covers the boney area on the outside of the knee.
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1 month ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 12, 2025 Another column I have written about in the past. But the conversations I have had after last week’s strong core column, I feel the need to cover this again. If you don’t love your own body, who is going to? I absolutely love confident people, no matter what size or shape they are. They walk around and have accepted, and look beautiful in, their own body.
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2 months ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, April 5, 2025 The question of the year — which abdominal exercises will work my abs the best? This happens each year when the weather is getting warmer everyone spends a lot more time on abdominal exercises. In the past, I have done some columns on abdominal exercises but it is always good to refresh, and get some “new stuff” to try. So many people are working their abs thinking that “it” will get smaller.
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2 months ago | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 22, 2025 The weather has been interesting lately. We go from springtime to wintertime to storm season. However, whenever I get a chance, I get my vitamin D. Vitamin D, also called the “sunshine” vitamin, is deficient in many more people than we realize. If you are someone who doesn’t like to go outside much and stays inside most of the time, you might struggle with vitamin D deficiency.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, March 8, 2025 How do you know if you are working out hard enough? It’s hard enough when you are in a group exercise class or fitness to get your heart rate up where it should be, but exercising at home makes it even more challenging. To work your heart and lungs, and get the ultimate results, you actually have to challenge your heart and lungs. So how do you know if you are working hard enough? There are a couple of ways to figure that out.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, February 15, 2025 Looking on the bright side. When you hear this statement, it immediately brings me to the song from British comedy, Monty Python: “Always look on the bright side of life.” I must say, I have been “sitting” on this column for a while. How do I get my point across with kindness and respect to all? As many of you know, I like to see my glass as half full. Life is too short to keep bringing yourself and everyone around you down.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, February 8, 2025 I was talking to one of our members who is dealing with lordosis, and I told her I would write about this again. I have written about kyphosis before too, which is an abnormal curvature of the spine in the thoracic area (back spine part of the rib cage). Lordosis is also an abnormal curvature on the spine, but it’s typically the lumbar part of the spine, more commonly known as swayback.
