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3 Things You Need In Your New Years Exercise Program
Make Sure You You Put These Three Items In You Workout Program Before Starting
Good morning, everybody. It’s Ekamba from Solcore Fitness. I’m here to talk to you about starting your new year’s goals for fitness. So, what are three things you can do to have a successful program?
You can have goals, you can be consistent, and you can have compassion for yourself.
Now, why those three things?
Because if you don’t have goals to start off with, you don’t know what you’re trying for.
So when you go out and you start to work out or you have to make changes in your life, your changes aren’t dedicated towards something, like they’re just random acts of movement or activity. When you’re really specific with what you want to do so you achieve your goals.
Then you want to be consistent.
so it’s like any other goal in life, right? You have to be consistent in your workouts, in your new sleeping habits, your water, your food, right? You can’t just do it here and there and expect the result.
You have to have compassion for yourself.
You’re in here or you’re in your fitness program to grow, to learn, to improve. With that, you’re going to challenge yourself. So, with challenges come frustration or thoughts in your head like I can’t do it or you know all that fun stuff, it pops up in our head. So have compassion for yourself in the rood that you’re on.
Now, of course, all this is contingent on having a good program. You want to have a nice balanced program to holistically balance yourself from the inside out to make sure that you’re achieving your goals. So, if you’re interested in having goals, being consistent, having compassion, looks like within a program that balances you from the inside out, then go ahead and give us a call at 505-577-2171 or you can email us at info@solecorefitness.com
Good luck to you.
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For People In Santa Fe: The Amazing Benefits of Keeping Fit!
For People In Santa Fe: The Amazing Benefits of Keeping Fit!
Ekemba Sooh | December 26, 2016
Eight trusted benefits of keeping fit, even at old age
Keeping fit is a great way to stay healthy. Exercising on a regular basis has countless positive effects on the body and the mind. A study done on 25,000 volunteers has shown that physical exercising is more important to health than just losing weight. Overweight people who are fit have lower chances of developing heart problems, diabetes, or osteoporosis. Who can practice fitness? Is fitness for you? The good news is that anybody, regardless of age, can benefit from fitness. Fitness exercises range from developing flexibility to building up strength and losing extra pounds.
- Keep a healthier heart – Fitness makes the heart work faster and it helps increase and strengthen the muscle of the heart.
- Develop stronger muscles and bones – Fitness exercises that work the muscles, such as weight lifting, develop the muscles and increase bone density. This translates into a body that is more resistant to fractures and injuries. People over 40, who have higher risks of developing osteoporosis and arthritis, can maintain a younger body for a longer time through fitness.
- Helps in weight loss – Fitness burns calories and reduces body fat. If you exercise on a regular basis, you will not only burn calories while you’re at the gym, but you will also burn calories while you’re resting. If you join fitness with a healthy diet, you will have a fit and excellent looking body.
- Helps in stress reduction – You have outnumbered stress factors in your life, stress is very dangerous to your health, and it can give you a general state of crankiness and anxiety. Exercising relieves stress and triggers the secretion of endorphins in the body. Endorphins, also called “the happiness hormone” create a state of relaxation. There is something called “a runner’s high”. This basically means that people feel happier after exercising.
- A more restful sleep – Stress and health problems sometime cause insomnia and other sleep disturbances. Fitness will give you a deep and restful sleep, which is important for the body to be able to recover and function normally.
- Increased ability to focus – Research shows that people who exercise think faster and clearer. Fitness does not only do wonders for the body, but it also benefits the mind, through improving circulation in the brain and taking away the stress that sometimes clouds our judgment.
Long-term benefits of fitness:
- Reduced blood pressure – High blood pressure can lead to strokes and heart attacks. Heart problems are the leading cause of death in the world. Fitness means a stronger heart, which pumps blood more efficiently through the body and the force put on the arteries decreases. Regular exercising is one of the drug-free methods to treat hypertension.
- Improved posture – Fitness helps maintain a strong backbone with a healthy posture. It helps with back problems and back pain that are often associated with a sedentary life.
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Personal Training Success Story Santa Fe
Personal Training Success Story Santa Fe- Janette
Being in this field it is impossible to not get attached to the people you work with. Some of my greatest joys are to get to know each person personally and to hear the amazing stories that come from their mouths. It is an amazing treat. And when you are able to help them it is an extra special bonus knowing where they have come from and what they had to go through to get there. Janette extremely epitomizes this process. I have a real place in my heart for who she is and what she had to go through to get where she is now. Even though it completely makes sense to me that she could do it through the SolCore Fitness program, her journey is truly inspiring to me.
Janette is approximately my age, 40-ish, but she came to us with the body and spine of a 90 year-old. She was in constant semi-debilitating pain. The only thing that kept her going was a sense of duty to her family and hope that she could get out of this situation.
This situation was one to where she had gone from a thriving young woman with a husband and two kids to a woman that was just trying to get through her day. Her sole goal each day was to not get in any more pain and make it back home, to where she promptly collapsed not able to interact with her family. She sought help form chiros, massage therapists and PT’s but the pain in her back and neck was getting worse. It got so bad she was not even able to give her daughters a bath because she couldn’t reach over the tub.
To make matters worse she couldn’t use pain meds, and she knew that all the doctors wanted to do was to fuse her spine. Luckily, she found a DOM that was able to subside her pain somewhat and she reached out to us to “put her back together.” When I talked to her before starting, I told her that what she had wasn’t that difficult to fix, it just wouldn’t feel that great doing it and would take awhile.
Being the focused person that she is, she committed herself to try it for six months. My main direction to her was to go slow.
Let me tell you how committed Janette is. On her initial session when she did the wall stretch she was brought to tears because of the tissue being pulled back into place.
You see when tissue heals after an injury without it being put back into place properly it heals “out of order.” So when you start correcting, it doesn’t feel so nice.
This pain happened to her whenever she did a class or while she did her stretching homework at home, but she persisted. At one point her husband asked her why she kept going back and she said, “Because this has to work.”
I can’t tell you how many times I walked over to her during a class and saw her struggling just to stay in the posture on the verge. But I am glad that she kept with it because she now has pretty much no pain, has gotten back into lifting and running but more importantly she is a participant in her family’s life again.
It is my absolute pleasure to introduce Janette as the December Member of the Month.
1) What made you decide you wanted/needed to start a program?
I was sick and tired of being in so much pain and I had to try one more time to get rid of it. I knew that there had to be a way out of it. Your program spoke to me and I dove in.
2) What did you do before?
I used to workout a ton. Lifting weights, running and just being active. I go to an acupuncturist and I was seeing a PT before this but was given up on and told there was nothing that could be done.
3) What results have you achieved since starting your program that you are proud of?
My pain has gone from unbearable to almost gone and I am now able to be present in my family’s life. I can play with my kids. I can workout again. I feel like myself again.
4) Do you have a favorite exercise? Least? What do you like or don’t like about them?
I love lifting weights! It feels so good to be able to move like that again. The lower to mid thoracic ELDOA’s are murder for me. I know that they are exactly what I need, but they are tough.
5) What are some challenges or goals you are currently working on?
I would like to continue to be able to keep correcting my posture and to lose the 10-20 lbs I put on when I couldn’t move.
6) What do you like best about our program/ having a trainer?
That it works! I love the personal attention. The way the program is put together and is taught just makes sense.
7) What advice would you give to the other SolCore Fitness members?
Keep going! You have got to take it one class at a time and do what you can. When you don’t feel like going…go anyway! Do your homework. Even a little bit is going to dramatically help you.
8) What would you say to someone on the fence about joining our program?
Do it! But if you do give yourself some time to work it. You should be in it for a minimum of three months to even start to feel where it is going. If this program can work for me it can work for anybody.
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Personal Training Success Story Santa Fe- Rosanna Dill
We have a running joke in the midday class. At about 12:32 Rosanna is going to come screeching in with her workout gear and high heels. She’ll start warming up and be told what the class is that day (no matter what it is) and genially say with a huge smile on her face, “Great, let’s do it!”
Rosanna has one of those minds that likes to figure things out. She is very inquisitive and will generally figure things out on her own. This shows up at home as she is the “handyman” of her family and is pretty successful at it. So she applied the same gusto to her fitness program and got ok results. The problem was that she noticed that her “problem areas” weren’t getting better and in fact getting a little worse. She has what 90% of people have in a thoracic kyphosis. This is a tight upper back that is more rounded than it should be.
Her main goal now was to not be the “hunched back little old woman” so she decided to stop “being a cheap bastard” (her words 😉 ) and sought help. Rosanna saw us on Facebook and read a little on what we do and it really peaked her interest. She decided to commit and work on fixing her upper back by joining our group class.
She jumped in with two feet and worked her tail off. She did all the homework that was given to her and some that wasn’t. Because of this she has drastically improved her posture and is learning tools so to never become the hunched back little old woman. This is also why Rosanna is October’s Member of the Month.
1) What made you decide you wanted/needed to start a program?
I did not want to become that little old woman with the hunched back.
2) What did you do before?
I took Pilates at a gym for a bit until a dog bit me (long story). I am active and do outdoor activities. Most recently, I was doing an at home DVD workout program that has me doing different stuff every day.
3) What results have you achieved since starting your program that you are proud of?
I have so much more awareness in my body. I have much more freedom in my body and I can see my tight upper back slowly going away.
4) Do you have a favorite exercise? Least? What do you like or don’t like about them?
I like all the exercises. I know that they are all helping me and I can feel it. I really enjoy how all the exercises work together in the program. The wall stretch helps me sleep at night and the handful of upper back exercises are really starting to strengthen me.
5) What are some challenges or goals you are currently working on?
Just continuing to open up my upper back. It’s like you said, I am working on the past imbalances in my body and what I am doing to myself now.
6) What do you like best about our program/having a trainer?
I love the fact that the classes are varied, fun and effective.
7) What advice would you give to the other SolCore Fitness members?
Take your time. It is a process to getting results. You are not going to get major results in three months and definitely not in 6 weeks like other programs promise. Stick with it because it is totally worth it.
8) What would you say to someone on the fence about joining our program?
This program is a subtle yet effective practice that realigns your body.
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