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Kegel Your Way to Better Health

No one talks about it but it’s a problem that many women have to deal with on a day to day basis after child-birth.  Urinary incontinence, an inability to control urine flow, can be a socially embarrassing problem that can be managed.  Stress incontinence or the loss of urine when you cough, sneeze, laugh, or…

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Ways To Prevent ACL Injuries

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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Fall Back Into Fitness, Fall Back Into YOU!

Kids are back to school soon.  Yahoo!  Oops, did I say that out loud?! 🙂 September is a very busy time in the fitness industry, only second to New Year’s Resolutions.  Summer holidays are over, school is back in session and now it’s time for YOU!  Take advantage of this natural tendency to turn over…

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Sign It – Your Fitness Commitment!

Sign It – Your Fitness Commitment! Here at Northwest Personal Training each new client signs and Fitness & Training Commitment. This signed agreement serves as a reminder of the commitment that they have made to themselves and to provide a list of the health behaviors that we will help them to adopt over the next few weeks…

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Stress and Lack of Sleep Make You Fat

Have heard how stress and lack of sleep makes you fat? Let’s face it, it’s common for people to be running from appointment to appointment, deadline to deadline always feeling behind on everything.  Whatever happened to the days where you actually got home at around 5:30, had dinner and sat on the front porch talking…

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Be a Fitness Mentor

Yep, you can be a fitness mentor! Are you one of the lucky few fitness fanatics?  You have no problem getting up every morning and getting to the gym for your workout or your early morning run.  You’ve been exercising for years and couldn’t imagine ever quitting.  When you’re on vacation or on a business trip,…

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Managing Summer Nutrition

I recently received the following email. You would think that summer would be the easiest time to lose body fat, but I always gain weight every summer.  How can I overcome all my nutrition vices during the summer months?  What am I doing wrong? Managing summer nutrition is a timely topic considering summer is the…

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The Limitations of Yoga

The popularity of Yoga exercise has increased dramatically as many celebrities swear of its effectiveness.  But the classical techniques of yoga are not just the latest, trendiest workout; they in fact, date back more than 5,000 years. Yoga, which means “to join or yoke together,” is a system of physical exercise or postures, controlled breathing and…

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Stick to Your Workout Routine

Here we are mid-summer and many of you are probably beginning to lose your desire to stick to your workout routine. Many people wonder what happened to the energy and the zest they had in early spring. Well, you’re not alone.  A lot of people get zealous when the sky is blue, the sun starts shining…

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Starting and Sticking To It!

As a Personal Trainer, I understand that the actual physical fitness program we design for our clients is only a small part of our job.  Our most important role is helping our clients actually DO the program. That is…starting and sticking to it!   Everyone knows they should exercise and take better care of themselves but…

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