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 …
Category: Back Injury Prevention Napa
Jun 20
Maintaining Muscle at an Advanced Age
As part of my recreational hobby, I enjoy playing adult slow-pitch softball in Napa, California. I see all different types of gentleman participating in the recreational sport of slow pitch softball that we enjoy so much. Being the fitness professional that I am, I notice various levels of fitness among the participants out on the …
Mar 26
Back Injury Prevention Made Easy!
Back injuries are one of the most common injuries that the general population experience. These injuries include anything from lower back injuries, pain in between the shoulder blades, and neck strains. Nagging neck and back pain can be debilitating and cause lack of production in our everyday activities. Back pain can be distracting and disruptive …
Mar 04
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 …
Feb 25
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 …
Feb 19
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 …
Jan 13
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 …
Sep 05
Compound Exercise Movements: Resistance Training, Weight Lifting and Strength Training is Critical for Building Lean Muscle and Burning Fat!
The development of lean muscle is a critically important factor to maintaining strength, reducing the likelihood of injuries, and regulating the production of excess fat in the body. While working with our Personal Training clients at Napa Tenacious Fitness, we put a strong emphasis on compound exercise movements. These exercises include compound lower body movements, …
Jun 08
The Medicine Cabinet… Clear It Out and Start Exercising!
Health issues caused by becoming overweight are becoming increasingly prevalent. Conditions such as hypertension, sleep apnea and arthritis are just a few conditions whose names are on this list. A common solution to resolving these problems are referring to the services of a general physician. The physician will more than likely offer a prescription of …
May 25
Take Deep Breaths to Reduce Work Stress and Improve Concentration, Productivity, and Mental Health
Do you ever find yourself stressed out, stuck in a rut, or just too busy that you don’t know what to do next? Sometimes stress puts us in a confined state of mind in which we feel like we have nowhere to go and we stay stuck in a stressful state of something like anger, …