Tag: Healthy Life style napa

Cooking at Home: Get out of the Drive Through Rat Race

Today’s general population struggles with obtaining healthy foods from the store to prepare in the comfort of their own homes.  A common problem that we hear from our personal training clients in Napa is that healthy food is expensive and going to the store is drag.  People are too busy to make a trip to …

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The Best Version of Yourself: The Gift of Life Time Fitness

We all live busy lives that require a substantial amount of our time focusing on being the best version of ourselves.  This can be an elite performer for our jobs, being a better parent, or excelling as a student.  These activities can absorb a lot of energy and allow important components of our life hit …

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Clarification of Carbs and Protein: What they do and Portion Size

One of the leading causes of weight gain and metabolic disease is the misconception  of understanding what proper foods are made up of and how consuming them affect the functions of the human body. Some examples include overeating, consuming too many carbohydrates that effect insulin resistance, and making detrimental food decisions by choosing poor sources …

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Losing Weight by Limiting Over Eating, EAT MORE…Salads

The issue of how to lose weight properly can be handled in many ways. One such technique that is commonly understood to lose weight is to eat less food.  Not only is managing the amount of food that you consume very useful, but choosing the type of calories that you put into your body affects …

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Don’t Split Hairs when you Have a Forest to go through… Adhere to Physical Activity 3 times per week!

Some important aspects of a life time of happiness, strength and health are: “Do I exercise at least 3 times per week? “Am I properly hydrated?” “Do I get enough sleep throughout the week.” Sometimes when we see advertisements on different programs that are targeted to decrease weight loss in 30 days, improve your diet …

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4 Pillars of Life Time Fitness: Wellness, The Fitness Continuum, Nutrition… and PLAY!

Improvements in Life Time Fitness include focusing on some major categories that will significantly help benefit one’s health through a regular fitness program. Something that we promote with our Personal Training clients here in Napa, is to focus on something we call The 4 Pillars of Life Time Fitness. Within these pillars, we feature 4 …

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Perform Resistance Training ONCE per Week= Fountain of Youth!

About every 3 months there is a new health trend in being promoted and spoken about.  I hear clients, friends, and family talk about the newest latest health theme.  Sometimes it’s intermittent fasting.  It can be The Whole 30 Diet.  Or doing the P90X or Insanity workout package.  These are all great!  However, what I …

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The Benefits of Exercise over Alcohol to Improve Confidence!

The benefits of exercise remain a critical component in improving our wellness in life. Progression in staying healthy and injury-free, improving ones overall fitness, and improving overall quality of life is a clear byproduct of putting in time and energy to a structured exercise routine. One technique for improving Life Time Fitness that we do …

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30:3 Sit-to-rest ratio! Stand up Every 30 minutes at Work to Improve your Fitness

Our Personal Training Clients that we manage at Napa Tenacious Fitness have careers such as busy executive, event coordinators or managers in which their day can include anything from doing administrative work, to being a writer, to sitting down and having meetings all day. The drawback of sitting all the time means that the potential …

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Weight Loss: When Should I eat My Carbs?

A very common question that we receive from our Personal Training clients in Napa has to do has to do with what are the best times to consume your carbohydrates?  In this article, we’ll explore some commonly asked questions about when and why to eat carbohydrates to create the best lean muscle building and fat …

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