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21 Years Old, Independent, and Hungry

Finals week.  The week where time doesn’t exist.  The only thing present in a college student’s mind during the last few weeks of school are the insurmountable emotions of anxiety and pressure to complete a ten-thousand-word essay, solving of timed calculus equations, and a few in-class presentations in front of peers enduring the same mental …

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Healthy Diet: Processed or The “Real Deal?”

In a world where nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and award-winning biologists have filled our archives of knowledge with countless amounts of valuable dietary and food documents to refer to. It’s challenging to know what decisions to make on choosing foods that best support our quality of life.  Scientists have proven that diets consisting predominantly of red …

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Exercise your way out of stress

“What are the top three stressors throughout your day?”  This is a question we include in our introductory paperwork we encourage our new personal training clients to complete.  Not only is this topic a great way to develop a productive and growth mindset oriented in an interpersonal coaching relationship, but this also offers valuable information …

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From the ground up

Diving to keep volleyballs from touching the ground; popping upright after sliding to kick out a soccer ball away from an opposing player; springing up off the ground after diving for an infield ground ball and gunning the ball to first base to throw out a runner booking it to first base; in high school, …

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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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How Does Stretching Make you FEEL?

Flexibility and mobility are terms that contribute to an efficient, pain free, and productive body. Functions such as reaching over the head to acquire objects, bending down to pick objects off the ground, or rotating the torso to get in and out of cars are common movements that require joints to be able to move …

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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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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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