Category: Corporate Fitness Napa

Isometric Exercise: Progressive Regressions

A few themes in life slow our progress throughout our fitness journey.  Common obstacles compromising our adherence to physical activity are lack of time and distractions to our focus.  Long weeks of traveling for work, making sure “little Johnny” gets to his soccer practice, or finishing a landscaping project at home require significant time and …

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Mindful Posture Decreases Shoulder Injuries

Not too long ago, we had to pick up corded phones and dial phone numbers that we either memorized or obtained via our contact book. We physically wrote names and phone numbers down using a pen and paper.  The necessity to carve out time in our day to venture to the grocery store at a …

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Just One More Healthy Deed

It’s normal to strive for a little bit more of something.  After a long day at the office, a top by the local fast-food joint or order from Door Dash seems like the simple solution.  Sitting on the couch and turning on the ball game while scrolling through text messages and social media sounds enticing.  …

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Muscles and a Balanced Diet Make a Successful Team

The scales of deciding to indulge in decadent foods and maintaining a healthy functional body continue to be an act of checks and balances for society.  Humanity has developed an array of resources to acquire delicious food at our fingertips.  As five o’clock PM hits, and we depart from our jobs or pick up our …

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Sciatica is a Pain in the Butt: Part 2

Last week, we shed light upon a few noteworthy structures surrounding the sciatic nerve in the body.  This region of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and nerves is referred to as the lumbopelvic hip complex, or the LPHC.  The combination of connective tissue present in the LPHC is significant for the integrity of the lumbar spine …

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Balancing the Scales of Diet and Exercise

The scales of deciding to indulge in decadent foods and maintaining a healthy, functional body continue to be an act of checks and balances for society.  Humanity has developed an array of resources to acquire delicious food at our fingertips.  As five o’clock PM hits, and we depart from our jobs or pick up our …

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Getting Out of Bed and Exercising (Part 1)

As our digital noise device projects sound waves into the air on Monday at 6:30 AM,  birds can be heard performing their best Whitney Houston impression in their avian lingo.  Now that the gloom of the cold Napa winter has subsided, we enter a sunny, warm, and lively May. An astounding gradient of blue, orange, …

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Digital Detox

The term detox can be defined as: a process or period in which one abstains or rids the body of unhealthy or toxic substances.  The one-hundred and thirty-eight gram, three by six-inch device the majority of the population wields in their hand every day have unquestionably revolutionized humanity.  Anyone can absorb knowledge from their phones …

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Performing Exercises Correctly

When I was eleven years old, beginning my first adventure on the path of fitness, I was overwhelmed with the idea of getting to lift weights at the gym.  My arrival on the weight floor made me as giddy as a dentist’s child walking through a candy store.  The sensation of wielding a heavy object …

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Should I take protein supplements?

It’s been a refreshing experience seeing the Napa community outside enjoying the sun and participating in numerous forms of outdoor physical activity.  The thirty-something-year-old parents can be seen throwing a ball to their offspring with their under ten years old kids.  Volunteer parent coaches stand behind the rambunctious youth as they teach them how to …

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