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Staying Fit During the Holiday Season!

Catching up with family, traditional holiday food, and bright lights decorating your neighbors’ houses are a clear sign that the holiday season is in full effect.  With 2019 waiting for us around the corner, the holidays bring one last hurrah before new year’s resolutions are established.  Along with the holiday rituals, the days get dark …

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Fitness and Aging: Stay Young with Regular Exercise

Aging is a process when we realize our fitness levels decline.  We can recall that we may have been at our peak fitness levels when we were in our 20’s.  We had the body we wanted and might be wishing we had back.  Being active athletes, dancing, hiking and other recreational activities were all things …

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Staying Healthy During Day Light Savings Time

It’s getting to be that time of year where the sunrises and sunsets are beautiful, but the weather gets cold and the days grow short.  Usually when there are less hours in the day, people want to get inside sooner.   When it’s dark and cold, we must do things to keep warm, which usually means …

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Healthier Breakfast Options: Nutrition at Home!

We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  Waking up from a 6 to 8-hour slumber without any food, the first meal of the day is a prime time to restore the nutrients in your body.  Optimal sleep is one of the most beneficial practices to ensuring the body manages …

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Muscle Soreness: Follow up Chaser Workouts!

Exercise adherence to maintain health and fitness is just as important as fending off the flu.  When we experience flu like symptoms, we must take atrocious tasting cough syrup to fend off flu like symptoms.  Surely, Nyquil does not taste like a milk shake.  My 12-year-old son would rather pull weeds in the backyard that …

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Improve Confidence with Life Time Fitness Goals

Having confidence is one of the most powerful tools to perform at an elite level in our every day lives.  A confident mindset helps us excel at our jobs, day-to-day interactions, and our decisions involving the future.  When beginning a program with our personal training and life time fitness coaching clients in Napa, we interview …

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Have you counted how many Starbucks drinks you’ve had lately?

Living a healthful, happy and disease-free quality of life requires a balanced understanding of food choices.  During our nutritional consultations with our personal training and life time fitness coaching clients in Napa, a common deterrent to achieving weight loss goals is the amount of excess sugar present in their daily food intake.  One of the …

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Deep Breaths and Meditation: Become an Elite Performer in Everyday Life

Stress puts us in a confined state of mind in which we feel like we have nowhere to go and we stay stuck in stressful states of anger, depression, anxiety.  We can find ourselves feeling stagnant at work, sitting or standing for hours.  Similar to the way our bodies adapt to become stronger after weeks …

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Reasons Personal Trainers are Important!

Personal Training is a service sought out to refine health and fitness.  Popular interests in acquiring personal training services include losing weight, gaining lean muscle, and becoming stronger.  Creating solutions in developing a fitness program that supports life time fitness goals and avoids injuries is a common reason to reach out for personal training.  Maintaining …

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Exercise as Medicine to Cure and Prevent Diabetes

Adult onset Diabetes is a common occurrence impeding society’s health due to the consumption of sugary foods and decreased physical activity.  High glycemic index foods such as breads, crackers and “on-the-go” breakfast bars contribute to the insulin spiking effects that can develop into Diabetes.  Lack of physical activity from sedentary professions and stressful lifestyles cause …

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