Nov 27
Stiff, achy and nagging joint pain is something we all deal with in life. It’s uncomfortable, inconvenient and annoying. Elbows, hips and knees start to ache as the colder seasons approach. People even say they can tell when it’s about to rain because of the pressure increase in the air due to the tightness in …
Nov 19
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 …
Nov 12
Part of my job as a personal trainer and life time fitness coach in Napa is to create and manage exercise prescriptions for our clients at our fitness studio. Overseeing numerous fitness programs per month, I also have the privilege of creating my own new and improved exercise prescriptions every 4 weeks. Just like …
Nov 05
Aging can be an intimidating term. Our personal training clients in Napa refer to how age effects their lives by saying “I may have slowed a little bit due to my advanced age” or “I might be a little behind because I’m “not as recent’”. The enjoyment of our everyday quality of life shouldn’t be …
Oct 23
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 …
Oct 08
We all want to become a fitter version of ourselves. Who wouldn’t want to lose a few pounds, gain some lean muscle, recover from an injury and reap the benefits of becoming a more healthful version of ourselves to live a longer, happier life? The answer is should be obvious. There’s one problem here, we …
Oct 01
“It’s really tough to eat healthy when my job requires me to go out to business lunches and drink wine.” Sound familiar? As life time fitness coaches in one of the most successful food and wine meccas in the world, this is not an uncommon struggle that we come across with our personal training clients …
Sep 24
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 …
Sep 16
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 …
Sep 09
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 …
