Category: Balance Napa

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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Keep Exercise Routines from Getting Stale

Having time on your hands after a long career and a slew of grandkids can be a blessing.  However, after those years of working hard are over, the mind can become complacent.  Who needs exercises anyway?  Perhaps you’ve proven that after a successful 40 plus year career without injury or illness, you know what you’re …

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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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Post Retirement Fitness Routine

Having time on your hands after a long career and a slew of grandkids can be a blessing.  However, after those years of working hard are over, the mind can become complacent.  Who needs exercises anyway?  Perhaps you’ve proven that after a successful 40 plus year career without injury or illness, you know what you’re …

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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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Posture Makes Perfect

“Is there anything you can do to help this pain in my neck.”  This is a common request that comes from our newer personal training clients just starting one of our exercise prescriptions.  This comment is usually paired with the participant turning around and showing me the spot that hurts.  As they struggle to reach …

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Holiday Strength and Conditioning

Thanksgiving and the holiday season are fast approaching.  Many traditions take place this time of year where we celebrate the last month and enter in to next 12 months.  2021, here we come.  Along with holiday festivities of reuniting with friends and family, eating copious amount of decadent holiday food, and traveling, comes a critical …

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Exercises to Perform in the Car

My pickleball partner and I travel various places to get some games in against other players.  We also travel via plane and lengthy distances in our cars to compete in tournaments.  The result is always worth it.  We get some much-needed physical activity in and refine our craft by fine tuning our skills in the …

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Learning to Squat Correctly

Maintaining stability is an important theme to efficient functionality in our everyday lives.  We can relate to this by referencing non-human structures possessing solid foundations.  For example, trees have a root system that reinforces the heavy wood trunk and branch structures to grow vertically.  A backhoe requires a strong load behind it to stabilize when …

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Get Your Sleep and Thrive

Our everyday lifestyle habits lead to a day that uses a specific amount of energy from our human fuel tanks.  This fuel comes in the form of physical energy, emotions, and decision-making capabilities.  By the end of the day, we feel tired and are ready to wind down.  This is our body’s built in mechanism …

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