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Take it Easy: Exercising when you’re Sick

Participating in our favorite exercise activities helps us stay in shape and have fun while we’re at it.  Getting a workout with one of our companions at the local gym, attending a group fitness class or performing a home exercise routine will improve our balance, coordination, strength and our overall mindset for the future.  While …

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Nutrition: How much food is too much in one sitting?

The food we choose in our daily diet is a critical component to maintaining a healthy weight, staving off diseases, and optimizing the growth of lean muscle and bone strength.  A diet made up of higher concentration of plant-like foods will offer significant benefits to the functions of the body. Plant-based foods improve the immune …

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How to Address Fitness Plateaus

Weight loss, injury prevention and building full body strength are popular fitness goals Napa gym goers frequently pursue.  There are obvious benefits to our everyday lives in obtaining an optimal fitness level.  Looking and feeling better, thinking clearer, and being more productive are some of the many facets of pursing life time fitness goals that …

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Life Time Fitness “To Do” and “To Don’t” Lists!

A critical factor of sustaining success in our life time fitness is to prioritize healthy daily practices.  These healthy practices can come in the form of eating healthy, having plenty of physical activity and adhering to a positive mental outlook.  A useful technique that we teach out personal training clients in Napa is hash out …

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Injury Recover Prescriptions

Aches, pains, and injuries occur as we age.   We can consider ourselves diagnosed with arthritis at age 30.  Arthritic symptoms such as pain in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees and wrists are prevalent in our society.  Overuse injuries from poor posture in our everyday lives can affect the health of critically significant joints in …

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Full Body Exercise for any Fitness Level: The Plank

While having a conversation with a computer tech colleague, he inquired about what exercises would be best for him to receive benefits to his health and wellness without having to devote a lot of time to exercise.  The first thought that came to my mind was an exercise we recommend to our personal training clients …

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Mission to Motivate: Doug Ernst

Doug Ernst was a local veteran writer for the Napa Register passed away recently from ALS, a degenerative neurological disease.  I considered Doug a friend, peer and mentor because of the presence imposed to on an audience not only in his writing but speaking in front of a room.  Additionally, Doug was responsible for helping …

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Staying Fit During the Holiday Season!

Catching up with family, traditional holiday food, and bright lights decorating your neighbors’ houses are a clear sign that the holiday season is in full effect.  With 2019 waiting for us around the corner, the holidays bring one last hurrah before new year’s resolutions are established.  Along with the holiday rituals, the days get dark …

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Removing the Rust of Age with Life Time Fitness

Aging can be an intimidating term.  Our personal training clients in Napa refer to how age effects their lives by saying “I may have slowed a little bit due to my advanced age” or “I might be a little behind because I’m “not as recent’”. The enjoyment of our everyday quality of life shouldn’t be …

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Fitness and Aging: Stay Young with Regular Exercise

Aging is a process when we realize our fitness levels decline.  We can recall that we may have been at our peak fitness levels when we were in our 20’s.  We had the body we wanted and might be wishing we had back.  Being active athletes, dancing, hiking and other recreational activities were all things …

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