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The Magic of VooDoo Floss Bands

Voodoo floss bands (a type of resistance bands) are one of our favorite tools for exercise recovery. Fitness Director Jeff Ford tells you why.

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Baseline Benchmarking: 5 Must Do’s

When you decide it’s time to dive into a fitness program, it’s important to test initial benchmarks and understand your baseline. How does the mobility in your hips compare to your shoulders? Should you focus on improving your cardio-respiratory endurance or developing your body composition? If you don’t assess you baseline and understand your starting…

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The Truth About Tabata

Unfortunately there is a theme in the fitness industry that when something works, the natural tendency is for professionals to recommend people do more of it. This is a theme that many would agree is ingrained in America’s society. It’s just like what we’ve been brainwashed to believe regarding our food. If whole grains are…

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Nurture Fitness Adherence with Nature

Our society seems to have become ingrained with a habitual commitment to the gym as the choice for fitness workouts.  However, science advocates endless benefits to establishing a regular physical activity regimen involving the outdoors. When engaging in activity outdoors, we stride differently, adhere for longer durations, blast more calories, boost our “Vitamin H2” (aka.…

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Deck of Cards Travel Workout

The object of the game is to conquer all of the cards in the deck within a reasonable amount of time. If you are short on time, cut the deck in half or complete as many as you can within your allotted time. You can also invite spouses, significant others, family members, business peers or…

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New to Yoga? Considerations for Practice

The practice of yoga is an ancient tradition.  New yoga students should always consider the instructors training, expertise, and teaching methods. The new yoga student should always be encouraged to honor their physical limitations. Any type of physical activity that challenges the body should be practiced with dedicated individual attention and care. Body awareness and…

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7 Reasons to Take Hydration Seriously

Next to air, water is the most important physiological need for the human body. You can only go a few days without water. Think about those days when you just don’t seem to drink enough water, how do you feel? If you’re wondering where the sleepiness, headaches and nausea come from late in your afternoon…

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Fitness Programming: A Four Step Process

Assess Your Mobility and Movement I see it all the time. Excitement is high out of the gates and someone dives right into an intensive fitness program, only to find themselves two weeks later back on the couch due to an injury or burn out. If you sit at a desk, work long hours, or…

Core Fitness for Aging Gracefully

Age With Grace: Strengthen Your Core

Our “core” is essential to our adaptive functionality, especially as we age.

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How to Nurture a Positive Body Image.

Body image encircles more then just appearance. It encompasses more then the possible shrewdness of how others individualize us. Body image, at its core, embodies an array of dynamic origins. How we think, feel, act and react to our own self-perceived physical attributes are all tiny fragments in the unabridged explanation of body image. The…