Aug 06
Last weeks from the “Fit for Life” weekly column featured 3 large muscles attached to the knee and their significance in maintaining the health and structural integrity of our critically important knee joint. This subject received special attention because it could not be condensed into the 800-word limit for this column. As a special, let’s …
Jul 14
Summer in the Napa Valley is one of the most beautiful times one can ask for. Morning fog rolls in, making it just warm enough to venture outdoors for a morning walk in your t-shirt. The vineyards bearing their fruit preparing to be harvested lace the hills in majestic beauty. Some of the finest restaurants …
Jul 11
Walking, turning your head, stepping on and off objects. These activities can be more challenging than we think when our sense of balance is disturbed. The regulation of balance perpetually occurs throughout a normal day. Take away an optimal level of balance, we have issues. Once we take one misstep off a curb, trip over …
Jan 30
The final first month of the new year is coming to an end. New year’s resolutions are thriving in abundance with the gym goers of Napa becoming happier and fitter. As the first month of the new year finally wraps up, there is still 11 motivating months to make our lives happier, healthier, and stronger. …
May 19
A popular goal among our Napa personal training clients is to increase lean muscle and achieve a more toned physique. There is a common perception that consuming an increased amount of protein in the diet will increase lean muscle mass. Having more lean muscle mass is desirable to obtain an improved body image perception …
Oct 14
A great staple to anyone’s diet is to include salads into their weekly snack, lunch or dinner food choices. Why? Well, by choosing a healthier salad option, you can positively promote positive life style choices in a path to maintaining a healthy weight, gaining healthy vitamins and minerals through raw whole foods, and getting nutrients …
Apr 26
Having a job that requires you to go out to lunch meetings and being exposed to restaurant food can sometimes sabotage your healthy eating habits. For example, sometimes you may be pressured into consuming certain foods that are not the most conducive to your health and fitness goals because most of the table might order …
Feb 25
Shoulder pain from overuse or previous shoulder injuries can impede an individual from performing certain exercises in the prone position. The prone position or “face down” position is where the arms are posted out underneath their chest or where one must hold their body weight over their elbows. A great alternative to utilizing the core …
Jan 29
The Medicine Ball Pull Through exercise is a great core exercise to add into your program to develop strength in the rotary muscles of the center and trunk region of the body. Performing this exercise will not only be a strong exercise for the core, but is a great exercise for the arms, shoulders, glutes …
Jul 31
Breakfast is sometimes stated to be one of the most important meals of the day. There is a lot of truth to this statement. The first meal of people’s day is a breakfast type meal like cereal, eggs or something on the run like a breakfast granola bar… most of the time. While there are …
