Category: gyms near me

Exercise Hurts

“I don’t like to sweat.”  “Why would you want to inflict pain on yourself?”  “There’s weird people at my Yoga class.”  “I don’t want to be around all those young kids at the gym taking pictures of themselves.” An alarmingly prevalent reason people veer from fitness is the physical discomfort exercise can impose on a …

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Improving Sedentary Behavior

Society has evolved into an innovative community, mastering the ability to manage our everyday affairs through electronics.  Along with phones, computers, and tablets offering instant gratification comes a position where we physically conform our bodies to a resting position requiring little to no movement.  In other words, we sit a lot.  In fact, six to …

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Healthy Foods with One Ingredient

Sprinkling lemon, lime, and orange juice on food offers bright and exciting notes of acidity.  The sweetness and crunchiness of carrots, celery, and onions contribute a satisfying and refreshing note when added to a dish in raw and cooked forms.  The juiciness and refined flavor of properly cooked salmon are reminiscent of the scent of …

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Core Muscles-Like the rings in the trunk of tree

Many moons ago, I participated in a  class curated by an accomplished gentleman possessing his PhD in Botany.  His life’s work was to s engulf himself in studying redwood trees.  Our class was fortunate to take a field trip to Armstrong Woods park.  This area outside of Guerneville was flooded with massive redwood trees on …

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Moving Side to Side and Front to Back

Curbs, steps, speedbumps, and roots causing sidewalk cracks have a purpose in the functionality of our society.  Sidewalk curbs create a location for our automobiles to park next to as not to disturb walking patrons.  Speedbumps made of asphalt and painted with white or striped yellow give the message to drivers to slow down.  Otherwise, …

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Self improvement balancing acts as time goes on

“It doesn’t get much easier.”  This statement came from one of my peers who was ten years older than me.  He who expressed this to me after sharing with him the knee pain I was experiencing.  This knee pain was brought about by spending a significant amount of time preparing my garden for the spring …

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Instant Gratification and The Human Body

The human race has been privileged throughout the past few decades with phenomenological inventions offering instant gratification.  Payment via tapping our credit card or phone on the surface of a payment processor at grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants removes any apprehensions of thinking twice about the number being deducted from our digital bank account.  …

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Getting Fit and Staying Healthy for The New Year

As January approaches mid-month, New Year’s deals for group fitness classes and gym memberships are operating in full effect.  The local gyms are flooded with current and annual gym members who put their attendance on the back burner. Newbies to the gym scene flock through the sliding glass front door of the gym, filling the …

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New Year’s Resolution: Simple and Effective Tactics

The eventful, yet restful holiday season is coming to an end.  The lights encompassing houses illuminating streets will be taken down.  The Santa Claus, reindeer, and snowman decorations at grocery stores prepare to enter hibernation in a storage shed until next year.  Holiday music and classic television shows convert to normally scheduled programming as we …

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Too Busy to Exercise? Set a timer

My baking hobby ensues at full capacity throughout the holiday season.  One of my favorite baked treats I’ve mastered throughout years of trial and error is the lime white chocolate blondie.  These vessels of mind-blowing lime and rich white chocolate require a refined yet simple recipe I developed throughout years of surfing the internet and …

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