Tag: mental health napa

Drinking Enough Water This Year

2022 brings about many goals and aspirations for the next twelve months. For example, a few enlightening and exciting goals are learning new skills, picking up new hobbies, traveling to another country, or the pursuit of losing weight and redefining our bodies through a well-rounded fitness routine. Twelve months offer plenty of time to set …

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Recalibrating Health for the New Year

A new frontier of experiencing the next set of twelve calendar months is upon us.  As we set out to journey through 2022, we can appreciate the successes, times shared with others, and challenges we’ve overcome from the previous year.  We tack another digit onto our age.  Our kids might progress to the next grade …

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Exercise your way out of stress

“What are the top three stressors throughout your day?”  This is a question we include in our introductory paperwork we encourage our new personal training clients to complete.  Not only is this topic a great way to develop a productive and growth mindset oriented in an interpersonal coaching relationship, but this also offers valuable information …

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Upper Back and Shoulder Blade Strength

“Can you make a brace for me?”  One of our personal training clients, Frances, inquired jokingly.  “Just so my shoulder blades and back can stay in place without me doing any work.  Maybe just some brackets and a few deck screws to pin my shoulder blades in place so they don’t droop forward?”  Frances added.  …

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Solving Sciatica Through Exercise

Back pain is no joke.  Limited movement, decreased functionality, and living with pain are just a few negative biproducts back pain imposes upon a person’s life.  Disruptions such as traumatic accidents, overuse, underuse, or injuries, to the structures surrounding the collections of bones comprising our spine, can turn a personal world upside down.  These words …

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Give Pain Your Full Attention

Hinges, knobs, handles, screws, nuts, and bolts are instruments used throughout our daily lives.  We see them as we open doors to our homes and cars.  Metal hinges held on by screws attaching doors to planks of wood ensure a door operates efficiently.  Handles attached to our kitchen utensil drawers are fastened by screws.  The …

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A Reminder for Sunny Day Physical Activities

Following the winter solstice a few months ago, we have the privilege to look forward to our longer hours of daylight.  We get to experience the sun illuminating the ground sooner in the day and observe the sunset descends below the horizon later in the evening.  Daylight savings time is a few days away.  The …

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Nutrition: Am I eating enough food?

Balancing the scale of weight loss and improving fitness can be tricky.  Losing weight seems to be a priority in most individual’s fitness goals when first entering a fitness routine to improve their health.  The focus on decreasing the number the scale represents is commonly associated with an individual’s ability to restrict how many calories …

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Ankles, Squats, and Balance

Training to improve balance is commonly overlooked.  Strong core, running, and getting steps in to fill activity rings in your favorite wearable technology are popular topics to talk about.  However, presentations of imbalance pose a serious threat to populations living with previous injuries, decreased fitness levels, and advanced age.  Deficiencies in the ability to maintain …

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Rainy Day Exercise

Our glorious holiday season has wrapped up as December shifts to the beginning of January.  Historically, January offers grey and cloudy skies.  Peering out the window, we aren’t granted the bright blue sky and warm days we get in spring and summer.  The cold, foggy morning brings us consistent bouts of rain.  Bleak wet environments …

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