“My joints make some exciting noises when I get out of bed in the morning,” commented one of our personal training clients, Natalia. “See? Watch this,” Natalia added as if demonstrating a magic trick. Natalia bent down to pick her exercise mat off the ground, and a few grinding and popping sounds could be heard …
Category: Corporate Fitness Napa
Apr 11
Finding Time to Exercise when Time is at a Premium
Acquiring a membership to a local gym, attending small group fitness classes, or signing up for personal training has proven time and time again to aid in refining an individual’s health and fitness. Building muscular strength, redistributing fat mass to lean muscle, enhancing mood, staving off risk factors for metabolic disease, managing stress, and contributing …
Feb 13
Consistent Exercise and Pain Management Keeps the Spine Strong
Generalized “wear and tear” from enduring the stress of life for over fifty years elicits repercussions to our joints. The articular surface of joints can get scuffed after being used for manual labor, the stresses of an athletic career, or recovering from a traumatic injury. As the surface of joints wears down, they become rough …
Feb 07
Take Care of Your Feet
The gift of existing in the world as bipedal organisms puts the human race at the top of the hierarchy in the animal kingdom. With a set of hands with opposable thumbs and the ability to walk, our body’s engineering makes us one of the most sophisticated and successful species on earth. While the skeletal …
Nov 06
Getting Into an Exercise Ritual
Regular exercise adherence improves our overall quality of life in an almost immeasurable way. Keeping our bodies fit assists in losing weight, decreasing the risk of cardiovascular or metabolic disease, and contributes to beneficial stress management to our psycho-emotional well-being. Exercise continues to be a panacea for healing symptoms that threaten physical, emotional, psychological, and …
Sep 04
Staying Fit to Manage Arthritis
General age-related breakdown occurs in many aspects of our lives, including the wear and tear of the engines in our automobiles, the scuffs in our hardwood floors, or the chipping of paint on the side of our houses facing the hot afternoon sun. These repercussions of being present in the world for years can’t necessarily …
May 23
Choosing the Best Foods at the Right Times
Eating decisions can create resolutions to circumstances that make us feel better and more productive. Weight loss, gaining lean muscle mass, and fending off illness are commonly sought-after purposes of adhering to healthy eating habits. Maintaining an optimal weight for our body type assists in managing a healthy fat mass to lean muscle mass ratio. …
Feb 14
Reduce Stress by Completing the Hardest Part of Your Day
The stress and demands of everyday life can cause our bodies and minds to endure stress of various degrees. Clocking in to work for an eight to ten-hour shift, putting out a fire at your job, keeping tabs on our children’s progression in a school, or navigating through the intricate labyrinth of financial logistics to …
Jan 17
Starting a Fitness Journey, Take Small Bites
Our fitness center had the privilege to expand another fourteen hundred square feet this past year. The addition of a hallway, another bathroom, two office suites, and about eight hundred additional square feet to utilize for one-on-one personal training activities gave our coaching team the potential to invite more people into our business and offer …
Jan 04
New Years Fitness Routines for Beginners
The holiday season features a multitude of cultural festivities centered around spending time with loved ones, taking time off to be thankful for what the world has granted us, and enjoying holiday-themed treats is coming to an end. The new year 2024 is just around the corner and symbolizes a fresh start to many important …