Category: Exercise and Sleep

Life Time Fitness “To Do” and “To Don’t” Lists!

A critical factor of sustaining success in our life time fitness is to prioritize healthy daily practices.  These healthy practices can come in the form of eating healthy, having plenty of physical activity and adhering to a positive mental outlook.  A useful technique that we teach out personal training clients in Napa is hash out …

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Injury Recover Prescriptions

Aches, pains, and injuries occur as we age.   We can consider ourselves diagnosed with arthritis at age 30.  Arthritic symptoms such as pain in the neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees and wrists are prevalent in our society.  Overuse injuries from poor posture in our everyday lives can affect the health of critically significant joints in …

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Alcohol and Life Time Fitness: Pick you Poison

Living in one of the most beautiful areas in the world, wine is embraced a unique part of the Napa Culture.  One of the benefits Napa locals have within arm’s reach is our world class wine and food scene.  Having a drink with friends or at a networking event is an entertaining experience for many …

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Giving yourself permission for sustainable exercise

The final first month of the new year is coming to an end.   New year’s resolutions are thriving in abundance with the gym goers of Napa becoming happier and fitter.  As the first month of the new year finally wraps up, there is still 11 motivating months to make our lives happier, healthier, and stronger.  …

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Full Body Exercise for any Fitness Level: The Plank

While having a conversation with a computer tech colleague, he inquired about what exercises would be best for him to receive benefits to his health and wellness without having to devote a lot of time to exercise.  The first thought that came to my mind was an exercise we recommend to our personal training clients …

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Balance in Nutrition: Foundation Before Supplements

Nutritional research reveals diets rich in plant-like foods offer a multitude of benefits to the wellbeing and longevity of the human body.  A diet with a strong concentration of fruits and vegetables helps decrease metabolic syndromes, offers cancer fighting properties and supports proper balance of vitamins and minerals in the body.  We are seeing more …

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Mission to Motivate: Doug Ernst

Doug Ernst was a local veteran writer for the Napa Register passed away recently from ALS, a degenerative neurological disease.  I considered Doug a friend, peer and mentor because of the presence imposed to on an audience not only in his writing but speaking in front of a room.  Additionally, Doug was responsible for helping …

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Staying Fit During the Holiday Season!

Catching up with family, traditional holiday food, and bright lights decorating your neighbors’ houses are a clear sign that the holiday season is in full effect.  With 2019 waiting for us around the corner, the holidays bring one last hurrah before new year’s resolutions are established.  Along with the holiday rituals, the days get dark …

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Pick The Exercises You Like!

  Part of my job as a personal trainer and life time fitness coach in Napa is to create and manage exercise prescriptions for our clients at our fitness studio.  Overseeing numerous fitness programs per month, I also have the privilege of creating my own new and improved exercise prescriptions every 4 weeks.  Just like …

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Fitness and Aging: Stay Young with Regular Exercise

Aging is a process when we realize our fitness levels decline.  We can recall that we may have been at our peak fitness levels when we were in our 20’s.  We had the body we wanted and might be wishing we had back.  Being active athletes, dancing, hiking and other recreational activities were all things …

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