Tag: Nutrition Napa

Upper Back and Shoulder Blade Strength

“Can you make a brace for me?”  One of our personal training clients, Frances, inquired jokingly.  “Just so my shoulder blades and back can stay in place without me doing any work.  Maybe just some brackets and a few deck screws to pin my shoulder blades in place so they don’t droop forward?”  Frances added.  …

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Fitness Preparation for an Event

One of our aspiring young coaches recently completed an ultra-endurance event known as the Spartan Race.  This is an event that includes eight miles of professionally designed obstacles one would see in a military boot.  The only difference is a creative twist with the addition of obstacles including long distances of monkey bars, ice cold …

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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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Healthy Knees and Strong Hips

A productive and enjoyable experience to our everyday lives is what most of us strive to achieve after we wake up in the morning.  A critically important factor to a fulfilling day is our physical well-being.  We can have a to-do list with the power to supercharge our world.  However, we cannot make these life-enhancing …

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BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)

“I have a few big, hairy, audacious goals.”  These profound adjectives presented before the word “goals” caught my attention as I was meeting with a new personal training client.  “I call them BHAGs.  I use them as a tool to achieve my sales quota for my job.  If I don’t set those goals for myself, …

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Thoughtful and Strategic Weight Loss

One the most popular fitness goals among our society is weight loss.  The weight that is measured on the scale is a numerical unit of the amount of force produced on the ground dictated by the overall mass of a body.  This means a combination of our bones, muscles, blood, and visceral organs.  Let’s not …

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Healthy Eating: Blood Sugar Crashes

“ Sugar is the devil.”  “I avoid sugar like the plague.”  “Sugar is poison to the body.”  To a degree, most of these statements pose a compelling argument.  However, sugar within our bloodstream is critically important toward the nourishment and functions of the vital organs in our body.  If we lack sugars in our blood, our …

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Exercise is an anti-depressant

“It gives you those positive endorphin things,” Mara explained after conducting her monthly fitness check-in.  An effective question we ask our clients after a 4-week period of regular exercise is, “What results have you experienced from this previous 4-week exercise phase?”  Our team of coaches knows to gather this information following a 4-week period of …

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Nutrition: Am I eating enough food?

Balancing the scale of weight loss and improving fitness can be tricky.  Losing weight seems to be a priority in most individual’s fitness goals when first entering a fitness routine to improve their health.  The focus on decreasing the number the scale represents is commonly associated with an individual’s ability to restrict how many calories …

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Keep Exercise Routines from Getting Stale

Having time on your hands after a long career and a slew of grandkids can be a blessing.  However, after those years of working hard are over, the mind can become complacent.  Who needs exercises anyway?  Perhaps you’ve proven that after a successful 40 plus year career without injury or illness, you know what you’re …

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