Tag: HIIT

Injury Intervention: Research, Professional Help, and Movement

Just like getting a flat tire while driving down the highway, injuries can happen when you least expect them.  Unexpected injuries hurt, decrease our strength, and serve as a inconvenient distraction in our everyday activities.  Being sidelined due to injury is discouraging as well.  Injuries can occur anywhere from poor posture while sitting, unexpected accidents …

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A “Pain in the Butt”: Alleviating Hip Pain

Activities such as sitting, doing recreational activities or just hanging out with friends and family all seem like normal activities everyone should be able to do.  However, when pain arises somewhere in the body, these activities become challenging.  A common site of pain in the body is hip tightness.  Symptoms such as sciatica creates pain …

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Benefits of playing in the water: Aquatic Exercise!

Summer in the Napa Valley is one of the most beautiful times one can ask for.  Morning fog rolls in, making it just warm enough to venture outdoors for a morning walk in your t-shirt.  The vineyards bearing their fruit preparing to be harvested lace the hills in majestic beauty.  Some of the finest restaurants …

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Eccentric Exercises: Less is More!

We all remember the story of the tortoise and the hare.  If you haven’t, go ahead and grab a kid’s version of The Tortoise and the Hare from the Napa County Library and you’ll find out the origination of the term “slow and steady wins the race.”  As an ambassador of lifetime fitness with a …

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High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): Efficient and effective… but make it safe!

A commonly discussed weight loss topic among our personal training clients in Napa entails what types of exercise will most efficiently shed fat from the body. Popular themes we see in health and fitness advertisements feature information on performing high intensity interval training(this is also known as HIIT in personal trainer lingo). HIIT is a …

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Can I burn fat with resistance training alone?

The topic of how to optimally burn fat and get results efficiently is always a popular one.  One question that I commonly get asked is: “What mode of exercise is the most efficient way to burn fat and maintain lean muscle mass?” While basically every mode of physically activity will utilize fat as a fuel …

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