Do you have someone in your life who loves wellness, health, and organization? You’re in luck! We’ve created a guide of gifts for healthy people. Whether they’re focusing on recovery, completing their new resolution of staying organized, or even beginning to learn yoga, these gifts will help put their well-being first.
Massages and facials come in all shapes and sizes. With a gift card from Purity Day Spa in OKC, your loved one will come home feeling relaxed.
View this post on Instagram
Red Coyote Running offers every product a runner could ever need. Whether your loved ones want to run, walk or just want to purchase a comfortable pair of shoes – Red Coyote offers great gear customized to you.
View this post on Instagram
Gifts for healthy people are easy to come by at Clean Juice Classen Curve. As a locally-owned juice bar, they offer cold-pressed juices, smoothies, acai bowls and even healthy food. This is a great gift for people who are constantly on the move!
View this post on Instagram
Getting organized on your own can be hard – but the team at Pretty Neat and Organized it can be easy! From kitchens to pantries and even garages, this is an amazing gift for healthy people who value home health and organization.
View this post on Instagram
Regardless of your yoga expertise, practicing regularly can make you feel better from head to toe. With multiple locations, Yoga Six in Oklahoma City offers class packages that will help you put your well-being first.
View this post on Instagram
The sauna is such a great tool for overall wellness and to boost your immune system naturally for both men and women. Fit Spa in OKC is a great gift for the athlete in your life to relax and recover.
View this post on Instagram
Discover more resources for healthy people here at Fit City! We’re committed to supporting you living your best and healthiest life.
With the cooler temperatures rolling in, we’ve got the best indoor activities for kids in OKC to visit! From playgrounds to aquariums, your kids will enjoy every destination on this list.
Designed for kids 6 and under, this purposeful play atmosphere has multiple play areas to engage children and stimulate the mind without overwhelming them. You’ll find museum quality exhibits, pretend houses, crafts, and a playground!
If you think this is a place in Oklahoma City you’ll visit frequently, check out their memberships. Monthly memberships include unlimited play time and 10% discounts on parties, snacks and more!
Jump!Zone is the perfect indoor activity for kids in OKC! Your kids will enjoy healthy and active play with their themed inflatable slides, obstacle courses, and bounce houses. Jump!Zone also offers activities for toddlers, making it great for kids of any age.
If your kid’s birthday falls within these winter months, Jump!Zone is a great place to have their indoor birthday party.
An interactive experience designed to inspire fun and educate. With water tables, a pirate ship, and more, you’ll be able to feed stingrays, touch reptiles and visit sharks, seahorses, jellyfish and angelfish!
Want to get up close and personal with the sharks at the Aquarium? With a certified dive master, you can dive and see the sharks up close!
The Science Museum in OKC is the state’s only hands-on science museum. Get lost in science experiments, space simulators, monarch exhibits, art, history and more!
There’s something for everyone at The Science Museum and it’s a great indoor activity for kids in OKC full of programs. Ranging from camps to chemistry day and even overnights, your kid will have a blast!
KidStrong is a milestone accelerator for kids walking through 11 years old.
We help parents discover their child’s superpowers and build future-ready kids who are confident making friends, run the playground, and raise their hand high in the classroom.
In other words… kids who will win at life. We do this by giving parents the tools to build stronger kids at our centers and at home:
Goldfish Swim School believes that swim lessons in Edmond give students the cognitive boost they need to make waves in life. They understand that you want the best for your child, so thats why they’ve gathered expert instructors and heated their pool to a pleasant 90°.
Their methods can propel your kid’s potential to the highest degree. Want to start your child early? Goldfish Swim School also offers infant and toddler swim lessons!
Interested in building stronger kids through innovative training? Learn more today!
Discover more family fun resources here at Fit City! We’re committed to supporting your kids live their best and healthiest lives.
Flower Child OKC is known for their fresh and healthy food – and they have something for everyone. This fun spot is also a safe place for the gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan eaters out there. Today, we’re sharing our five favorite bowls from Flower Child.
This bowl is at the top of our list and for good reason. After all, this is a gluten free favorite with amazing flavoring. It’s filled with organic brown rice, bok choy, carrot, cauliflower, snap pea, and shiitake mushrooms and the teriyaki shrimp is delicious.
Calories: 450
Gluten Free: Yes
Vegan: No
Vegetarian: No
If you have a craving for Latin food, this bowl is the perfect way to satisfy your palate. This bowl features a delicious mix of guajillo chile, smoked Gouda, poblano crema, organic black beans, roasted corn, and avocado.
Calories: 810
Gluten Free: Yes
Vegan: No
Vegetarian: No
Enjoy this blend of curry, coconut aminos, snap pea, bell peppers, onion, shiitake, jalapeño and cilantro. Immediately after eating this bowl, we fell in love with this fresh and healthy vegan option that is also gluten free.
Calories: 330
Gluten Free: Yes
Vegan: Yes
Vegetarian: No
Every restaurant has a classic dish, and this is a Flower Child’s and it’s an Oklahoma City favorite! Filled with brussel sprouts, arugula, organic kale, candied pecan, ricotta salata, cranberry, puffed wild rice, and sherry dressing. We love that you can keep this vegan or add your protein of choice.
Calories: 390
Gluten Free: Yes
Vegan: No
Vegetarian: Yes
If a bowl is called Mother Earth, it’s probably for a good reason – and you’ll know why after you read the ingredients this bowl features. You’ll find ancient grains, sweet potato, portobello mushrooms, avocado, cucumber, broccoli pesto, charred onion, leafy greens, red pepper miso vinaigrette, and hemp seed. Packed with plenty of flavor, this bowl is super fresh and healthy.
Calories: 450
Gluten Free: No
Vegan: Yes
Vegetarian: No
Discover more healthy eats and fitness and wellness resources here at Fit City and start your health-journey to your best, healthiest and most beautiful life yet!
Nutrition shakes, smoothies and juices work well for everyone! Whether you want to focus on your health goals or just treat yourself to a sweet treat, we’ve found the best nutrition shakes in OKC. If you’re in need of a quick nutrient boost, or a midweek pick me up, try out these five local nutrition shops.
With two locations in Oklahoma City, Organic Squeeze is a fresh, friendly, quick-serve spot that makes it easy to drink/eat smart. Known for their wide selection of juices and food, you can always find something you love on this menu.
You’ll get your daily vegetables with this smoothie. It’s packed with cauliflower, blueberry, grass – fed collagen, maca, MCT oil, lemon juice, almond milk, stevia, and himalayan salt.
Located in the center of Deep Deuce District, Wheeze The Juice has been bringing healthy and nutritious shakes to Oklahoma City since 2016. Made fresh daily, they offer over 20 juices and nutrition shakes. If you’re not in a rush, grab a seat outside and savor your drink while enjoying the view.
If you want a smoothie with a kick, the Tremors 8 is for you. With cinnamon coconut milk, KLLR cold brew, bananas, oats and dates – this nutrition shake will kickstart your day.
From sandwiches to wraps, and nutrition shakes and cold pressed juices, Clean Juice is a one stop shop for all things healthy and nutritious.
Choose your choice of protein and get shaking. While there are lot of nutritious shakes in OKC this one is made with all organic ingredients, this nutrition shake features almond butter, almond milk, bananas, maple syrup, and spinach.
More than a juice bar, Plant specializes in food that not only looks good, but will make you feel good too. As an all day cafe that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner – you won’t regret stopping in for a quick bite.
If you’re looking for a new alternative to chocolate and candy, you might want to try their Mint Chip nutrition shake. With house-made almond milk, banana, chlorophyll, mint, cacao nibs, and dates this shake will treat your sweet tooth.
With a name like Bee Healthy, it’s easy to stay motivated to eat better. Bee Healthy has seven different locations, which means there’sAlways around the corner! Bee Healthy has great options for nutritious shakes in OKC.
Their signature drink will have you coming back for more. It includes blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, matcha, spinach and honey.
Whether you’re just visiting Oklahoma City with kids or looking for a fun way to switch up your weekend routine, we’ve got THE ultimate list of things to do in OKC with kids!
Open from dawn to dusk each day, Scissortail Park is a beautiful 70 acre park located in downtown Oklahoma City. With a rock climbing wall, sand pits, restaurant and performance stage and great lawn, Scissortail Park has something for kids of every age!
There’s always something new to see at the OKC Zoo. Each year is packed with events and exciting additions for your little adventurers. From lions to bears and elephants to even harbor seals, the Oklahoma City Zoo is the ultimate outdoor getaway for everyone!
If you plan to visit the zoo often, you might plan to look into an Oklahoma City Zoo Membership. Their members enjoy free admission all year long, plus even more benefits!
Martin Nature Park is a great place to learn more about nature exploration and education for kids of all ages! Your kids will enjoy wildlife sightings, interactive exhibits and even a playground with a large tree house. With miles of nature trails, this park in OKC will be a hit for everyone!
Martin Nature Park is more than just nature exploration. They have guided hikes available Tuesday through Sunday beginning at 9:30 a.m. with ADA accessible approved trails.
With gorgeous views of the Oklahoma River and Downtown OKC you and your little ones will love the family friendly games and activities that Wheeler Park has to offer! And the best part? You can end your day on the iconic Ferris Wheel overlooking the Downtown Skyline!
From whitewater rafting, tubing, zip lines and more there’s always something different to do! You’ll also find festivals and race events throughout the year and summer camps for kids. With three different locations – each location offers unique experiences for everyone!
The SandRidge sky zip at RiverSport OKC Zip Line is the ultimate fun for kids and adults! There is a minimum height requirement of 48 inches. You can’t beat this 80 ft tall zip line that stretches 700 ft across the Oklahoma river!
Contributor: Justin Smith CPT and FNS
To become a more explosive athlete, you want an exercise program tailored to the key attributes that make for a better athlete in your specific sport or area of focus. This includes a program that concentrates on increasing stability while simultaneously enhancing strength, power, speed, agility, and coordination, among other skills. Whether you’re focused on becoming a better football, basketball, or baseball player, track & field athlete, wrestler or any other athlete that is looking to enhance these elements, then thinking in terms of force and velocity is paramount to success.
Force is generally defined as the strength or energy it takes to perform a specific action or movement. Velocity is broadly defined as the speed of something in a given direction. An example of a high force, lower velocity movement is a power lifter maxing out during a barbell deadlift. He is likely to struggle to generate a high amount of velocity as he slowly drives the barbell up from the ground to a full hip extension at the top of the movement.
Alternatively, a sprinter doing the 100-meter event at a track competition is generating much higher velocity as she runs her event, but is unlikely to produce as much force as the power lifter does during his max deadlift.
In order to maximize athleticism and excel in your given endeavor, it is prudent to figure out which attributes are primary to your sport and position within that sport. For example, a football player that plays wide
receiver will want to focus on maximizing speed, agility, and quickness to begin with. In order to do this, building a training program that optimizes for velocity first, emphasizes force second will be ideal (i.e. sprints, squat or lunge jumps, generating higher velocity when performing barbell squats, deadlifts, power cleans, and clapping push-ups). This is not to say that he will want to avoid programming higher force and lower velocity training such as heavier power lifting to build max strength and muscle mass as well.
These exercises are equally significant as they can have a profound impact on the football players ability to excel in ripping through defensive backs/outside linebackers jamming at the line of scrimmage, cutting during route
running, and breaking away from would-be tacklers. Additionally, there are many other exercises and training programs that emphasize core stability, balance, and hand-eye coordination, which are vital for football players and many other athletes. The following 4 exercises are a great starting point for workouts that will maximize your athleticism. You can modify these to focus more on force or velocity depending on your sport/position specific needs at any given time.
Muscles Targeted: glutes, hams, quads, abs
Exercise Description: Place barbell across your upper traps as if you are about to do a back squat. Stand facing a plyometric box or similar elevated stable surface. Raise one leg to step up onto box with your foot landing firmly on it. Your lead leg should be forming a 90-degree angle with its thigh parallel to the floor. Drive your lead heel into box to the point where you can drive your back leg/foot off the floor in as controlled of a manner as possible (at this point you have the option to either fully stand up on the box with both feet on top of it). Or for a greater challenge, dynamically balance on your lead foot and pause with your back leg in the air. Step back down, and repeat, but this time leading with opposite leg/foot.
Muscles Targeted: glutes, hams, quads, hip flexors, adductors, abs
Exercise Description: Place a barbell on your upper back in the stand-up position. Stand tall and engage your core. Extend your dominant side leg in front of your torso, land softly with your front heel firmly planted in the ground, bend at the lead knee, and lower your body until your back knee is nearly touching the ground. Ensure your legs are forming 90-degree angles and your front knee is aligned with your ankles and not out in front or beyond your toes. Also, make sure your torso is upright with your abs still engaged. Slowly extend upward and balance your body as you extend your opposite leg forward and repeat the movement with the opposite leg.
Muscles Targeted: back, glutes, legs, forearms
Exercise Description: With flat feet beneath the bar, squat down and grasp the bar with shoulder-width or slightly wider overhand or mixed grip. With your butt low, chest up, core engaged, and head facing forward, lift the bar by extending your hips and knees to full extension. Keep shoulders back. Return weight to the floor by bending at the hips and allowing the knees to follow. Keep a natural and slight c-curve in your spine and avoid rounding
or hyperextending your back as you lower the weight to the ground.
Total Body
Exercise Description: Begin in a deadlift stance. Pull bar up off floor by extending hips and knees. As bar reaches knees vigorously raise shoulders while keeping the barbell close to the thighs. When the barbell passes
mid-thigh allow it to contact thighs. Jump upward extending your body. Shrug shoulders and pull barbell upward with arms, allowing elbows to flex out to sides, keeping bar close to body. Aggressively pull body under bar, rotating elbows around the bar. Catch bar on shoulders before knees bend lower than 90-degrees. Stand up immediately so thighs ride no lower than parallel to the floor. Inhale and position chest high with core engaged.
Keeping pressure on heels (drive into ground), dip body by bending knees and ankles slightly. Explosively drive barbell up and off shoulders as you
simultaneously drop body downward by bending at the waist and splitting one foot forward and the other backward with as much velocity as
possible. The bar should be positioned directly over ears at arm’s length with back straight. Lower bar back to shoulders as you bring feet back to normal stance. Lower the bar in a similar manner to a deadlift.
With the increasing popularity of yoga in Oklahoma has come a newfound fascination with meditation. Metro businesses offer guided meditation gatherings while cell phone apps and online courses are available to assist us find the time we need to be calm, quiet, and centered.
For some, meditation is a religious practice and for others it is a way of life. Meditation is an ancient practice that originated from India 3,000-years ago.
The word “meditate” comes from the Latin word “mederi,” meaning “to cure,” while the Sanskrit word “medha” means wisdom. Combining both meanings results in the phrase “curing wisdom,” and allows us to
understand why meditation is one of the most important components of any quality health plan.
There are several techniques one can use to practice meditation, including concentration, contemplation, movement, breathing, walking, self inquiry, using sound mantras, and unstructured or wandering thoughts.
The goal of meditation is to allow one the opportunity to be aware, mindful, focused, and accepting of what is presently happening in life in any given moment. A present mindset can be described with the following example: While driving you are suddenly cut off in traffic by someone who turns in front of you without signaling. Instead of swearing and becoming angry, you use meditation techniques to allow yourself to just be aware of what happened and grateful that a collision did not result from the incident.
In the example given above, the individual implementing mindfulness through mediation techniques replaced angry emotions with gratitude.
Stress plays a huge role in our mental health. Worrying, being in a hurry and excessively competing are behaviors associated with episodic stress, or stress acted out through aggression and impatience. This type of stress is common and can easily be regulated with a practice like meditation.
Because meditation changes the way in which your brain and body respond to stress, the practice has been praised for easing stress, anxiety and depression.
Research has revealed that consistent meditation practices reduce feelings of fear, resulting in the practitioner becoming more rational. Hospitals nationwide are beginning to incorporate mediation into their treatment plans.
Contributor: Tasha Timberlake
Integrative Health Practitioner & Spiritual Mentor
Injectables, and not just botox, are becoming part of men and women’s self-care routine.
Marble countertops, velvet chairs, edgy artwork and custom welcome mats etched with the company logo greet you as you walk through the doors of Skinlab Injectables. This cutting edge injectable beauty bar has locations in Norman and Nichols Hills; both are designed with an aesthetic that is far from your typical medical office.
“Almost every adult of a certain adult age can benefit from and afford injectables,” said
Rebekah Voda, Manager of Skinlab.
When it comes to aging, a focus on preventative measures by society has contributed to the
popularity of injectable procedures. “Correcting already settled fine lines is harder and more costly than preventing the lines from forming in the first place. Preventative Botox is key,” Voda said.
The hashtags #findthefountain and #loseyourlines can often be seen in educational posts on Skinlab Injectables social media. They aim to educate their followers on the many different uses of injectables, both medical and cosmetic, while also informing them of the array of services they offer. Their fast-growing Instagram account @skinlab_injectables is nearing 10,000 followers.
Skinlab recommends first time Botox treatments begin between the ages of 24 and 30. The prevention of aging proves long term maintenance to be more manageable. Botox, for the treatment of fine lines and wrinkles, is recommended every 90 days.
“We take pride in our reputation of providing clients with a “natural look,” Voda said. “The compliment many of our clients say they get the most is that their skin looks amazing. People have a hard time pin-pointing
exactly what has changed, they just know it’s obvious their friend or loved one looks younger, refreshed, and rejuvenated.”
Injectables are on the rise not only in Oklahoma, but nationwide. In 2018, injections of Botox — the No. 1 aesthetic procedure since 1999, according to the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery — were up 16.3 percent from the year before. Fillers showed a significant increase in 2018 as well.
Botox is being used for more than just cosmetic justice. Skinlab has seen a significant increase of clients treating an array of non-cosmetic ailments such as migraine headaches, teeth clenching, hyperhidrosis (excessive underarm sweating), and several others.
According to The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there has been over a 300 percent increase over the last decade of men who received “Brotox.” Botox and PRP Therapy (Hair Restoration) are the top two services for male clientele at Skinlab. The summer months usually see an increase in both female and male clients. .
In addition to injectable services, Skinlab clients are also incorporating IV Drip Therapy and PRP Therapy into their self-care routines. Drip Therapy, also known as Hydration Therapy, consists of a custom blend of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants delivered intraveneously (IV). With Drip
Therapy, hydration and nourishments occur at the cellular level (hydration from the inside out.)
While IV Drip therapy is used to heal the body, injections of the body’s own PRP is used to stimulate hair growth, increase collagen production, and improve the healing of joints and ligaments. PRP is an all-natural
treatment option.
Additional services available to Skinlab clientele include facials, spider vein removal, fillers and micro needling that treats scars and fine lines by stimulating the skins production of collagen.
To learn more about Skinlab Injectables and to see a full list of services offered visit
www.skinlabinjectables.com or follow them on Instagram @skinlab_injectables.
Check your inbox for our Top 15 Ideas for Living Your Best Life in OKC.
Or, go explore our Fit City Partners now
snag our healthy living guide –
Top 15 Ideas for Living Your Best Life in OKC.