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1 week 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 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, January 11, 2025 I love it. Each year, I get a request to run my “fitness etiquette” column again. We all keep saying “use common sense,” but as we all have experienced, common sense is not common at all anymore. The following are fitness etiquettes in no specific order:• Wear comfortable clothes. However, make sure they cover all that needs to be covered. Men, make sure that all things stay in your shorts. Women, make sure all your parts are covered.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, December 7, 2024 Right shoulder arthroscopy debridement, subacromial decompression, distal clavicle excision, biceps tenodesis. It’s a whole mouthful, I can tell you!My surgery on Nov. 21 went very well. Dr. Ginn does an outstanding job and I had my surgery at the Novant outpatient center on Julian Road. And it’s not just me saying this, the staff there is amazing! I am not lying, I was having some PTSD from my tonsil cancer surgery 3 years ago.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, November 16, 2024 It has been a while since I have covered this subject. In the beginning of 2021, I had my first bout with vertigo and let me tell you, it is bad. I have been doing really well with some smaller spells once in a while. This past week, I had another really bad vertigo attack. I was able to stop the spinning and not get sick by sitting down and hyperfocusing on one object. I figure it was worth the try.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
salisburypost.com | Ester Marsh
Published 12:00 am Saturday, October 19, 2024 So, what are triglycerides? Triglycerides are a form of fat carried through the bloodstream. When you eat, your body converts any calories it does not need at that moment and stores it into triglycerides. When you regularly eat more calories than you burn, you may have high triglycerides. • Healthy levels — less than 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl), and 90 mg/dl for children and teens.
