By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Exercise is a great stress reliever and can create intense feelings of euphoria and joy through a chemical cascade of endorphins, adrenaline and dopamine to name a few. For these reasons alone, exercise can be addictive! Painful, difficult and strenuous at times, but addictive nonetheless.   … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Do not minimize the critical importance and power of your mind. Your daily attitude (aka: “mindset”) dictates EVERYTHING, even (especially) your ability to reach your fitness goals. Scratch that. Especially your ability to reach your fitness goals!   PROGRESS BEGINS WITH A HEALTHY MINDSET We all … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   The year is 2025: new year, new goals, new mindset, and a newfound drive to forge ahead to achieve success. Let’s do this!   THE HONEYMOON PHASE Is there anything more motivating than closing the chapter on last year and turning a fresh new page on … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Surrounding yourself with people who are experts in a certain area is an almost guaranteed way to become an expert in that area yourself. If you have a goal to be really, really good at something – to be great at something – hang out with … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Do you feel like you are controlled by temptation? By your impulses? Even though you know better, you can’t stop yourself from doing x, y or z? When you are tempted to eat something you know won’t help you reach your goals, and possibly even separate … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Are you truly ready to do what it takes to achieve the goal or goals you’re setting for yourself in 2025? Before you react to quickly with a “yes” (knee-jerk reaction, maybe not very well thought out), take a step back and make sure sure that … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Well, Halloween just flew right by and we are just two days away from the biggest food-focused social gathering of the year: Thanksgiving! You’ve been working hard towards your goals all year and now is the time of year when many across the US gain anywhere … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer   Setting goals is easy. It’s everything leading up to achieving said goal that’s the hard part. A goal usually starts with a thought that pops in your head of something you want to achieve – usually inspired by a mentor or role model who has successfully … SEE MORE