Category: Napa Fitness

Grip strength as we age

Opening jars, turning a set of keys to the deadbolt to our homes, or just picking up bulky items throughout our day; hand movements make our lives functional.  The unique organization of fingers and thumbs at the end of our arms gifts us the ability to type, use our phones, drive, and make food.  Opposable …

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Carving out time to exercise

Time isn’t just the name of my favorite Pink Floyd song.  It’s not just a digital number changing digits on our phones when look to see where we are in our day.  The interactions, significant emotional events, and energy spent on the various experiences in our lives are what fill these brackets separated by seconds, …

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Tight Hips=Tight Back

Our veteran client, Freddy, was beginning his weekly exercise routine.  He expressed his back was feeling tight.  He immediately knelt with his back facing an exercise bench.  Putting one foot on the bench and the other foot positioned in front of him as if he were genuflecting in a position meant to stretch his quadriceps …

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Fitness Preparation for an Event

One of our aspiring young coaches recently completed an ultra-endurance event known as the Spartan Race.  This is an event that includes eight miles of professionally designed obstacles one would see in a military boot.  The only difference is a creative twist with the addition of obstacles including long distances of monkey bars, ice cold …

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We all have enough time for exercise

Time is a piece of reality in life we can’t fully control.  After reading the previous sentence, that moment will be stored in the archives of history along with the many other events we have participated in throughout our lives.  The idea of time can be limiting for us.  We have twenty-four hours in our …

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Healthy Dinners: Electronic Free Meals

Long days at the office require rest and relaxation.  Waking up at the early hours of the morning, commuting to job sites, and devoting energy and time to your trade requires significant psychological, emotional, and physical bandwidth.  As we make the journey home following a productive day, we look forward to seeing the inside of …

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ABC’s: Feet, Stability, and Balance Exercises

Last week, we reviewed the young Olympic phenom, Simone Biles and her ability to display the extents at which the human body can move in various presentations of imbalance.  We concluded that Simone is a generational phenom of athletic performance that arises once a decade to set new world records in sports.  While the rest …

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Why do I have poor balance?

The Olympic gymnastics anomaly, Simone Biles, put on another spectacle of elite human performance at the recent Olympic trials.  Events such walking along the balance beam with precise steps, like that of a dove hopping along a telephone line, seems as simple a task as brushing her teeth.  As she bounces off the ground to …

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Healthy Knees and Strong Hips

A productive and enjoyable experience to our everyday lives is what most of us strive to achieve after we wake up in the morning.  A critically important factor to a fulfilling day is our physical well-being.  We can have a to-do list with the power to supercharge our world.  However, we cannot make these life-enhancing …

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Solving Sciatica Through Exercise

Back pain is no joke.  Limited movement, decreased functionality, and living with pain are just a few negative biproducts back pain imposes upon a person’s life.  Disruptions such as traumatic accidents, overuse, underuse, or injuries, to the structures surrounding the collections of bones comprising our spine, can turn a personal world upside down.  These words …

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