Category: Napa Tenacious Fitness

Sciatica: What a Pain in the Butt

The trials and tribulations of every day life present themselves in various ways from the moment we wake up to that restful point in the day when we close our eyes for a good night’s sleep.  Getting to work on time, ensuring the kids have enough money for lunch at school, or completing the latest …

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New to Exercising, Shoulder Injury Prevention

The third month of the year is coming to an end.  For those of us who have embraced the tactic of consistently adhering to a new fitness routine and refining our health as a New Year resolution, the results of exercising regularly are probably starting to show.  Following ninety days of exercise one to three …

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Prioritizing Lower Body Strength

Completing a full-body resistance training exercise session introduces a plethora of benefits toward everyday functionality.  Movements featuring productive exercise-induced stress on the lower extremity, core, and upper extremity have historically demonstrated how they assist in optimizing the ability to move more efficiently, avoid injury, reduce physical pain from previous injuries, and bolster the interactions within …

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A Brief Tour of The Core Muscles

The nuts and bolts holding together the framework of houses and buildings create a strong structural integrity to stay upright for a very long time.  Looking at the oldest building in Napa, the Old Adobe building has a framework that lasted well over a hundred years.  A building that was built back in the mid-1800s …

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Reduce Stress by Completing the Hardest Part of Your Day

The stress and demands of everyday life can cause our bodies and minds to endure stress of various degrees.  Clocking in to work for an eight to ten-hour shift, putting out a fire at your job, keeping tabs on our children’s progression in a school, or navigating through the intricate labyrinth of financial logistics to …

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Starting a Fitness Journey, Take Small Bites

Our fitness center had the privilege to expand another fourteen hundred square feet this past year.  The addition of a hallway, another bathroom, two office suites, and about eight hundred additional square feet to utilize for one-on-one personal training activities gave our coaching team the potential to invite more people into our business and offer …

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A New Year of Strength… Where do we Begin?

The first week of the 2024 calendar year has been successfully recorded.  For a local commercial gym employee, this could be one of the most stimulating weeks of the season.  A young front desk representative is likely to observe the flood of excited humans eager to achieve their New Year’s resolution fitness goals come flooding …

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New Years Fitness Routines for Beginners

The holiday season features a multitude of cultural festivities centered around spending time with loved ones, taking time off to be thankful for what the world has granted us, and enjoying holiday-themed treats is coming to an end.  The new year 2024 is just around the corner and symbolizes a fresh start to many important …

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Fortifying Knee Stability and Strength

“We’re pretty much diagnosed with arthritis after we turn thirty,” was a phrase one of my mentors consistently said to me, his peers, and patients throughout my internship experience.  As a decorated physical therapist with an esteemed reputation in the medical community, this man who had over forty years of practicing as a physical therapist …

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Avoid pain when sitting long periods of time

I had the privilege of attending a pro pickleball tournament last weekend in San Clemente.  Along with the immaculate sixty-five-to-seventy-degree weather, cloud-free blue skies, and the view of the southern California Pacific Ocean visible from the hillside from the tournament venue, I got to see my favorite professional athletes compete in the “granddaddy” of pickleball …

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