The holidays are a time for joy with friends and family. Sticking to your usual fitness routine can feel impossible between festive feasts, indulgences, shopping, parties, and gatherings. But, there’s an easy, time-efficient solution to keep your health on track during the holidays when you can’t get your workouts in or make it to the…
Practical Tips to Living Long and Healthy
Over the last 4 weeks, we’ve learned 4 General Themes for how to live long and healthy based on areas where high concentrations of Centenarians live in Japan, Italy, Greece, and Costa Rica. How Does That Correlate to Vancouver WA, USA?! 1. Increase Unconscious Movement People who live in Blue Zones experience a vast amount…
Increase Your Steps to Improve Your Health
One of the simplest and most effective ways to improve your health is to increase your daily steps. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends 10,000 steps per day, but is that too much or too low for you? If you’re currently far below 10,000 steps per day, it’s not a good idea…
Maintaining Your Health During Tough Times
When times are tough, one of the first things people will sacrifice is their health but that’s the last thing you should do, especially during a global health crisis. Looking and feeling your best will give you the energy and strength to overcome any obstacles you may experience It will be the glue to keep…
Mall Walking
2020 is definitely making it difficult to stay focused on your health and fitness. Between a global pandemic and now forest fires making the air quality hazardous, it’s challenging to figure out where to go and what to do to get your workout in. Running, biking, hiking and walking outdoors have not been recommended for…
Low Impact Does Not Mean Low Intensity
With the popularity of HITT (High Intensity Interval Training) which includes many high impact activities like Burpees, Jump Squats. Skipping, Running and various other explosive movements, it may seem like High Impact movements are the only path to results. That’s just not the case and good news for those with arthritic pain and various other injuries,…
Walk Your Way to Your BEST YOU!!
I recently discovered that one of our Personal Trainers at NW Personal Training, Jolene Nelson, transformed her body and her entire life just by walking! She posted on social media “I lost the weight from walking!!! I would walk on my lunch break, on the weekends, and after work.” Her transformation is absolutely incredible and it…
Low Cost Fitness
January can be tough for a lot of people. Credit card bills are arriving highlighting the additional holiday spending making everyone feel a little more stressed. But many also are feeling out of shape and ready to tackle their New Year’s Resolutions and get back into good shape. It’s cold, wet and dark and all…
Hill Workouts For Max Benefit
Walking is a fabulous, low-impact way to stay healthy and fit. But in order to get the same benefit as running, you generally need to go longer. But most people are busy so if you are crunched for time but still want to give yourself a fabulous walking workout, hills are the answer. Hills will…