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Sleep is crucial to your exercise recovery and overall health. 7-9 Hours of sleep is recommended for adults. Benefits include reduced stress, improved heart health and metabolism, lower risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and stroke, less risk of motor vehicle crashes, and improved attention and memory. Sleep is also the time your body repairs and grows muscles. Exercise and a healthy diet can both improve sleep quality. Sleep deprivation causes decre

Staying active as you age is important to maintaining independence later in life. Adopting healthy habits at any age will help to improve quality of life. Exercise is one of the foundations of healthy aging. Regular walking, chair exercises, resistance bands, or training functional movement patterns can help to maintain strength. Movement is the first step towards recovering from an injury, lowering the risk of falling, and living longer without disability. Managing stress, s

July is a great time of year to bring up hydration. On a day where the expected temperature outside will reach 95 degrees and feel like it's over 100, your body is going to need more water to replace what it is loosing. The human body is made of 50-65% water. Lack of water can lead to fatigue, make it difficult to think clearly, headache, thirst, confusion, and dizziness. Chronic dehydration can lead to obesity and diabetes. Proper hydration helps to regulate body temperature

GLP-1 medications (Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro) help to lower blood sugar and assist with weight loss. Your doctor may have recommended a GLP-1 to help treat Type 2 diabetes or obesity. These medications have shown to be effective at reducing body weight and have the potential to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke. Reduction of body weight can also mean reduction of muscle mass. Rapid weight loss can result in a 15% to 25% loss of lean muscle mass. Combining your GLP-1 m

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation combines passive stretching with isometric muscle contractions to improve flexibility, joint mobility, and neur omuscular control. A trainer helps apply force and assist in stretching your muscles. This technique has been used to treat musculoskeletal conditions, improving range of motion after an injury or surgery. When done after exercise, PNF has been shown to increase athletic performance as well as range of motion. It is recommen

Cardio – Origin: Greek ‘kardía’ - Aerobic exercise that stimulates and strengthens the heart and lungs. Cardiovascular exercise is single handedly one of the most important movements that you can do to improve your health. Whether walking, biking, attending a group fitness class, or swimming, cardio exercises help to lower the risk of heart failure, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Movement helps to increase the strength of your heart muscle. Blood pressure and res

Cancer Recovery Fitness is a service that offers specialized training to support cancer patients and survivors, focusing on muscle activation, neural rejuvenation, and maintaining energy and mobility during and after treatment. Goals: In recent years, exercise has become part of the standard of care during the treatment, recovery, and survivorship of cancer clients. Unique and individualized exercise programming will help to improve your ability to cope with the mental stress

Radon exposure is the second leading cause of lung cancer. 21,000 unknowing Americans fall to its indiscriminate radioactive, lung tissue destroying onslaught. Of those 21,000, 2,900 have never smoked. Radon gas is a nuclear decay product of uranium, found in the soils all over the USA and the rest of the world. Since radon is a gas, it rises through the soil and makes it away up above the ground into the air. Radon in low dosages is relatively harmless. A typical air concent