The small bones protruding from the ends of our hands meticulously function throughout our everyday lives to perform tasks with remarkable dexterity and precision, beginning first thing in the morning and maintaining their efficient productivity until the last moments before our heads rest on a pillow and we transition into a deep slumber. These little …
Category: Napa Nutrtition
Mar 06
Train me to get up off the floor
“What’s the sport where the super athletic crazy guys jump on walls and scale them like a lizard?” Asked Ophelia at one of her morning training sessions. “You know, you see stunt men do it in Jason Bourne and John Wick movies. They hang off walls, drop from cliffs, and land like cats after a …
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 …
Jan 29
Am I Getting Enough Protein in My Diet?
“It’s challenging for me to eat enough protein throughout the day,” shared Nester during his training session. “I’m only one hundred and fifty pounds, and the doctor recommends that I eat about half a gram of protein per pound of body weight.” This would mean that Nester must consume around seventy-five grams of protein throughout …
Jan 23
Avoiding Exercises That Hurt
“How’d you feel after the last workout?” I asked Thor, one of our long-time personal training clients, before beginning his first of two weekly training sessions. “I feel pretty good except for some knee pain I’m experiencing.” I looked at Thor with a gaze of concern as he continued sharing how his body reacted from …
Jan 16
Building Lean Muscles and Insulin Management
The storage of excess fat mass and metabolic conditions such as pre-diabetes can produce undesirable events in our everyday life functionality. Not only does excess fat mass create threatening environments within our cardiovascular system, but carrying around more weight than our body can manage due to a surplus of fat mass combined with deconditioned fitness …
Jan 09
Venturing into 2025 with skillful dietary decisions
We’ve arrived at the quarter century successfully. Starting the new year on a high note is on many people’s minds. Managing finances, learning a new skill, or working toward the bucket list of visiting highly sought-after wonders of the world are a few examples of the monumental achievements people might be motivated to work toward …
Dec 14
Slower Exercise to Recover and Keep Going
“I’m not sure I should come in for my training session today. I might have lifted something the wrong way when I was bending down to prune my roses. Now, I have some tightness and pain in my lower back and right side of my hip. What do you recommend?” read one of the emails …
Nov 27
Sciatica Exercise Intervention
Physical pain triggered by overuse injuries, deconditioned or weak muscles, or traumatic events substantially impacts the general population’s everyday life. Normal functional activities, including running errands, conducting general home-based chores, or simply getting in and out of bed, can become significantly hindered by a chronic injury that inflicts pain on an area of the body. …
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 …