By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer If you want to make more gains in the gym, it makes sense to work out more, right? Well, not so fast. We see memes on social media and slogans on t-shirts and tank tops that encourage us to “embrace the suck” and “take no days off,” … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer I used to think it was necessary to always have a goal. If you don’t have a goal, how can you be working towards something? And if you aren’t working towards something, how can you be making progress? And if you aren’t making progress towards a “something” … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer It seems like a no-brainer: you get stronger, you get bigger. One would most likely think that both goals of 1) improving strength and 2) packing on muscle are one and the same. But there’s more to it than that. Let’s take a deep dive into training … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Fitness. Family & Friendships. Finances. These are three major aspects that encompass your world that – when working simultaneously in perfect magical balance and harmony – can create a wonderful, stress-free, healthy, happy fit mind, body, soul and life. But when these three things are working against … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer We live in a productivity-centered world where the worth of our hours, days and years seem to be measured by what we accomplish within each minute, each second, of the day. No wonder the term “rest day” generally has a negative connotation to it, like “I can’t … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer “Food, glorious food!” ~ Oliver! (The musical, 1968) One of the most basic survival mechanisms – obtaining nourishment (aka: eating) – can bring us great pleasure, but it can also bring us an equal amount of misery when done in excess and seemingly uncontrolled bouts of binge … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Bodyweight remains a huge part of our culture. It’s such an integral part of many people’s self-esteem, and a huge part of whether or not someone feels like they are making progress or not in a given day or week or month or other specific time-frame based … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer What do you think of when you hear the word metabolism? Do you think of how fast or slow your body burns fat or holds on to fat? Or maybe you think of an “on/off” switch somewhere in your body labeled “metabolism.” Metabolism, originally more of medical … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer I’m sure I don’t need to tell you about the numerous obstacles, limitations, ‘set backs,’ and stumbling blocks we inevitably face along our fitness journey that can easily be turned into flat out roadblocks that truly test us in how bad “we want it.” Some are physical, … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer It might be out of force of habit, or mindlessly working out (going through the motions of lifting things up and putting them back down) or just lack of knowledge when it comes to body mechanics—but, contrary to popular belief, your focus should not be on lifting … SEE MORE