Blog For Tag "fitness"

  • Setting Goals for a Healthy New Year: Make Your Health a Priority in 2025

    posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Make your health a priority in 2025. Setting achievable wellness goals is a fantastic way to prioritize your health, and we are here to guide you in creating sustainable habits and achieving your goals.

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  • How to Start - and Continue - A Lifelong Wellness Plan

    posted by Tim Birkey on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 A new year brings a fresh new start to many people's health and wellness goals. As a strength and conditioning coaches, our personal trainers at Spencer Hospital's Athletic Enhancement program are pretty accustom to seeing a packed fitness center in early January, but as the calendar pages turn, we start to see the number of participants wane. How do you create a successful, life-long wellness plan? It starts with one step at a time.

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  • How to Stay Active While Social Distancing

    posted by Tim Birkey on Friday, March 27, 2020 The recent COVID-19 pandemic has affected us in many ways with one being limiting many of us with avenues of ways to exercise. Fitness clubs and gyms have closed to promote social distancing and to prevent gatherings of numerous people, all in an effort to slow the spread of virus.

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  • Get the Skinny on Body-weight Training

    posted by Tim Birkey on Thursday, October 24, 2019 For centuries human beings have been in search of the most effective methods to train the body. Over the years some methods have evolved, some have vanished and some, although occasionally abandoned and overlooked, have stood the test of time. Bodyweight training is one of the simplest methods of training and conditioning known to humankind.

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  • Exercise in Pregnancy: It's Good for Baby Too!

    posted by Sarah Goodchild and Melissa Horkey on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Most people know that exercise is beneficial for pregnant women but it was always thought that those benefits were just for the mom. There is now a study that has shown that aerobic exercise during pregnancy improves the baby's gross motor skills.

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