About every 3 months there is a new health trend in being promoted and spoken about. I hear clients, friends, and family talk about the newest latest health theme. Sometimes it’s intermittent fasting. It can be The Whole 30 Diet. Or doing the P90X or Insanity workout package. These are all great! However, what I …
Tag: Healthy Back Napa
Jan 13
30:3 Sit-to-rest ratio! Stand up Every 30 minutes at Work to Improve your Fitness
Our Personal Training Clients that we manage at Napa Tenacious Fitness have careers such as busy executive, event coordinators or managers in which their day can include anything from doing administrative work, to being a writer, to sitting down and having meetings all day. The drawback of sitting all the time means that the potential …
Oct 14
Healthy Salads! Simple Staple Ingredients for Awesome, Delicious Salads!
A great staple to anyone’s diet is to include salads into their weekly snack, lunch or dinner food choices. Why? Well, by choosing a healthier salad option, you can positively promote positive life style choices in a path to maintaining a healthy weight, gaining healthy vitamins and minerals through raw whole foods, and getting nutrients …
Oct 04
Weekly Progressions in Strength and Motivation: Progressive Overload Schemes
Ensuring that your performance is increasing in an exercise program is a critical component to committing to a fitness routine and putting it all the hard work. This means that adhering to a program that shows success in your exercise performance is a very useful tool. In our case over here at Napa Tenacious Fitness, …
Sep 05
Compound Exercise Movements: Resistance Training, Weight Lifting and Strength Training is Critical for Building Lean Muscle and Burning Fat!
The development of lean muscle is a critically important factor to maintaining strength, reducing the likelihood of injuries, and regulating the production of excess fat in the body. While working with our Personal Training clients at Napa Tenacious Fitness, we put a strong emphasis on compound exercise movements. These exercises include compound lower body movements, …
Aug 11
The 50 Year Old Hunch- Neck, Shoulder and Upper Back Pain… Solutions!
While working with one of my Personal Training Clients here in the Napa Valley, he mentioned that working on posture is one of the most challenging things that he does throughout his day. His reasoning for this is that he has spent 50 years of his life working behind a desk and not worrying about …
Feb 06
Adding Variety to your Core Training Program while utilizing the Posterior Pelvic Tilt: Eccentric Leg Lifts!
Exercises that support your abdominal muscles in the supine position can be a very safe and useful way to train the musculature of your core and trunk region. One of the reasons why performing a core exercise in the supine position is because you must learn to properly utilize a posterior pelvic tilt while …