Category: Napa Personal Trainer

Pigeon Stretch: Why it’s so good!

The pigeon stretch is a great stretch for a number of reasons.  This stretching movement can help increase mobility of the hip, improve the effectiveness of your exercise routines and decrease the likelihood of hip injuries while solving hip pain issues.  The “pigeon” stretch is traditionally a stretch that assists with external rotation of the …

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Dynamic Stretching Before Doing your Chores!

Chores.  Chores around the house.  Chores in the back yard.  Chores in the front yard.  Chores in the side yard.  Dishes, laundry, sweeping, raking, picking annoying little things up off the ground that you have procrastinated doing for the last 3 weeks.  Maybe the refrigerator needs to be cleaned out too?  That spilled beer/milk combination …

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Back Strengthening for Desk Workers

  I work with a lot individuals who work at desks all day to make a living.  While sitting at a desk, sometimes we forget about how sitting for prolonged periods of time can affect our bodies.  It’s not like we don’t know that sitting down in the same position will cause pain to our …

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Elastic Band Training Vs. Free Weight Training: What’s better?

Elastic Band Training Vs. Free Weight Training: What’s better? Elastic resistance offers a variety of benefits to any training program.  The use of elastic resistance can be beneficial for injury prevention, sports performance enhancement and general resistance training.  Elastic resistance bands are also inexpensive and convenient.  In some cases elastic resistance has been shown to …

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Kids are the future! Resistance Training is GOOD when they’re young

Kids are the future!  Resistance Training is GOOD when they’re young                 My days as an adolescent young boy were pretty rough.  I had kind of an interesting hand of cards dealt to me where there was not a lot of social support available to me.  So I ended up turning to something that I …

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The Value of Nutrition Over Exercise in Weight Loss

The Value of Nutrition Over Exercise in Weight Loss                 Exercise is critically important toward maintaining healthy function in the human body.  Performing resistance training will help regulate certain hormones in the body and train the body to utilize fat as a fuel source more efficiently.  Performing steady state cardio for 20-30 minutes has been …

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Set a goal, keep it fresh!

Complying to an exercise program, keep it fresh There are many times when people come to me asking for nutritional and fitness advice. Go figure, it is what I do for a living. So I always take up these opportunities because I thrive on seeing people achieve their goals and improve their lives. Usually, what …

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