By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Regardless of the many reasons for embarking on your journey toward improved health, strength, fitness and wellness, it all comes down to one thing: muscle. The condition of your muscles and other connective tissue must be priority number one. If muscles are weak, fragile, easily inured, … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer February usually has 28 days and is the shortest month of the year, but every four years the month gets an additional day. This year just happens to be a leap year, so we “get an extra day.” A LITTLE LEAP YEAR HISTORY A typical … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer So, you want to gain muscle. If you are like most of us who started following Nicole, you are probably lifting weights to change your body composition in some way, which includes gaining muscle and/or losing body fat. PRIORITIZING MUSCLE The first step, and the most important … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last few decades, you are familiar with “The 5 Love Languages.” A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Debuting in October of 1992, “The 5 Love Languages” book barely made a splash, only selling 8,400 copies, but by … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer We are almost six weeks post New Year’s (although in some ways it feels like that was forever ago). How are you doing with those goals, by the way? Did you think you’d already be at a certain point by now? Or are the goals you set … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer You decided to commit. Maybe you joined a gym, or signed up for a challenge, or hired a personal trainer/coach, or paid for the upgraded version of My Fitness Pal so you can better track your nutrition. Whatever the big step was that solidified your commitment to … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer One thing we learn very early on is that life is hard. It is full of struggles and challenging obstacles. We also learn that once you overcome a struggle, another one pops up to take its place. What the heck man! CHOOSING STRUGGLES NOW VS. LATER I … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer How much do you believe in yourself? In what you’re capable of? In what your mind and body can achieve? This can be a tough question, but I want you to really, really give this some thought and answer honestly: how much do authentically your truth and … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer How much clarity do you have about your confidence levels? And, if you are aware of your self-confidence (high, low, or maybe mid-level) are you honest with yourself about it and how it might impact pretty much every facet of your world? Too much of it, and … SEE MORE
By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer We live in a world where it seems like everything – EVERYTHING – revolves around food in some way. From the moment we open our eyes in the morning until we fall asleep – and even then, some of us wake up in the middle of the … SEE MORE
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