Written by: Kat Polo, Health Coach and Ortho Kinetics Professional Trainer Dial into your best “healthy eating mode” to finish your year strong and healthy with this delicious recipe from Kat. Using just a few hearty winter veggies known for their immune-system-boosting benefits, you’ll find this soup an easy way to include extra vegetable servings to balance out […]

By: Diane Miller Peterson, Ortho Kinetics Specialist Trainer, Balanced Body Pilates Instructor, and more.  Hint: One will continually progress your fitness level, the other will not.  Routine Most think of an Exercise Program as a collection of exercises selected to achieve a goal. It’s based on your fitness assessment, personal goals, past exercise history, injuries,

By: Darcy Monette, Lifestyle & Wellness Coach Hey there! So, we are more than 2 weeks into our end-of-the-year push, and I want you to take a minute (or two) and reflect on the past two weeks. How did you do on your goals? What worked? What didn’t? Be honest: there is NO judgment going

By Darcy Monette, Lifestyle & Wellness Coach My high school senior quote was “You don’t stop laughing because you grow old…you grow old because you stop laughing.” Today, I found out both may be true! On my way into work, I heard on the radio that children laugh an average of 400 times per day. And adults? We

By Loretta Stanton, Ortho-Kinetics Specialist Trainer The principle of adaptation, also known as the SAID principle (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand), states that when the body is placed under stress, it starts to make adaptations that allow it to withstand that specific form of stress in the future. This is the process of the body

By: Sara Morgan, Ortho-Kinetics Specialist Trainer Whether for weight loss, sanity, or health benefits, getting your cardio minutes in can be daunting, but I believe you are up for the challenge! i often struggle with the cardio aspect of fitness. To me, the fun part is the weight lifting and machine aspect of working out,

By Rachel Main Ortho-Kinetics Professional Trainer You may have heard this acronym recently, as I write this article HIIT type workouts grow even more popular in the fitness world; from P90X to Insanity the examples of HIIT workouts are almost exponential.  But what exactly is HIIT? High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is the process of

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