Muscle is often associated with strength, athletic performance, and appearance. However, the benefits of building and preserving muscle go far beyond looking good and physical power. Muscle is essential to long-term health, contributing to disease prevention, metabolic efficiency, and overall well-being. 10 Reasons Why Building and Preserving Muscle is Critical to Overall Health 1 –…
Sticking with your routine long-term hinges on one crucial factor: avoiding injury. Injuries can derail your progress, sap your motivation, and sideline you for weeks or even months. By taking proactive steps to protect your joints, tendons, bones, and muscles, you can ensure that your workout routine remains a consistent and enjoyable part of your…
Starting your fitness journey or preparing for a new athletic challenge is an exciting venture. However, laying a solid foundation before diving into high-intensity and high-volume workouts is crucial. Spending at least two months on base conditioning can make a significant difference in your performance, injury prevention, and long-term success. Building a Strong Foundation Base…
After sleeping all night, it’s a great idea to start your day with some gentle range of motion exercises/stretches to get your blood flowing, wake up your muscles, lubricate your joints and warm your connective tissue. Try the following 5-minute sequence in the morning and make note of how your body feels before and after:…
Today, we complete our Fit-ish series with Brenda Braxton from KGW on how to be healthy and fit through the decades. The goal of the program was to provide tips for achieving optimal health without causing too much stress and anxiety. Fit-ish is about balance, not obsession. Here’s the Youtube clips from the full segments…
Many consider gardening as a peaceful, meditative activity and rarely consider that they may require a training program to prepare for the activity. If you break gardening down into its most fundamental movements, you’re basically pulling, pushing, bending, squatting and lunging the entire time requiring muscular strength and endurance, core conditioning, mobility and flexibility….
You’ve probably seen CBD products everywhere! CBD topical ointments, drinks, skin care and even chapstick, smoothies and pizza! You can buy CBD products at grocery stores, spas, pet stores, coffee shops, local gyms and even USA Triathlon has recently partnered with a CBD company. So what’s all the recent buzz about? CBD, which stands for…
We are celebrating our 18th Anniversary at Northwest Personal Training and Drew Carney from the KGW Early Morning Show recently did a segment with us to discuss what has changed over the last 18 years since we opened our doors. Here’s the highlights from that segment: Dynamic Warm-up It used to be common practice to perform static stretching before…
Foam Rolling to Release Muscle Aches and Pains Over the last two months, I’ve focused this column on running programs. Well, the running community is probably a little stiff right now with thousands completing the Portland Full and Half Marathon on October 5th and the Girlfriends Run for a Cure on October 12th as well as many other local runs. …
We are heavy into football, soccer and basketball seasons and the ski season will be here in no time. All athletes – young and old – are susceptible to suffering a debilitating Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. I thought this would be a good time to discuss what athletes can do to minimize their risk for…
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