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Drink Water For Your Success, Santa Fe

Water, Water Everywhere

Water is one of the most important staples toour health and fitness. If we are dehydrated, it can present a whole host of physical problems that will cost time and money to “cure,”when the remedy is as simple as “DRINK MORE WATER!”

Symptoms of Dehydration

Mild:

  • thirst
  • dizziness
  • anger
  • depression
  • confusion
  • light-headedness
  • dry mouth and nose
  • slowed urine production

Moderate:

  • sunken, dry eyes with few or no tears
  • poor skin elasticity
  • rapid and deep breathing
  • low blood pressure
  • fast, weak pulse

Severe:

  • fainting
  • severe muscle contractions in the arms, legs, stomach, andback
  • convulsions
  • heart failure
  • kidney problems
  • lack of urine
  • cool, moist extremities
  • low or undetectable blood pressure
  • peripheral cyanosis (bluish skin)
  • death

 

Water Facts

An interesting fact, “The earth is covered with almost 70% water,andhumans are composed of about 75% water- our blood containing roughly the same salinity as the ocean water”.  There are roughly 10,000 actions within your body that are performed per second, which water is essential to. Water’s chief job is to maintain a stable environment inside and around our cells,so we can be able to take in nutrition and eliminate wastes. It is also essential that your muscles, tendons, ligaments and all the fascia in our body stay hydrated. You see, our body is meant to slide and move internally, and all this sliding and moving is done on water basedsubstance. So if you are dehydrated, just moving around will cause excessive tension and friction, which will cause inflammation, dysfunction, andpain.

 

So where do you start? First,find out how much you are currently drinking. Use a journal or the note function on your smartphone. If your total water intake is below ½ your body weight in ounces of water, you have to start increasing your intake. So, for example if you weigh 150lbs, you should be drinking 75 ounces of water every day. Also,note how much plain water you are having. Plain is water without ANYTHINGin it and two hours after eating.

 

Don’t try and increase it all at once though! Start slowly and let your body adapt. First,take the water you are currently drinking and divide it into thirds. Then also divide your day into thirds, say before 11am, 3pm, and7pm. Each third of waterwill go into those three sections. Now you are going to add a little bit of water in each third and make sure that it is all finished by the time you choose. Just keep increasing periodically every couple of weeks, andyou will be good to go in no time.

 

If you do enjoy lemon or lime in your water, just make sure half the water you drink is plain. This is the water that keeps your tissues hydrated.

 

As an added way to get more water in and start your day off awesomely, drink as much as you can first thing in the morning. Now you have started your day off hydrating yourself which get your body flowing and functioning correctly. It also gets you in the habit of drinking water in the day. And if you happen to forget to drink enough during your busy day, the water you drank in the morning “front loaded” your amount to help.

 

Water Hydration

So now that you are all geared up to stay hydrated- What do you do? Go to the nearest water fountain and take a swig…Not if you love your body!  Almost all municipal sources of water are contaminated with commercial agricultural runoff (pesticides, herbicides, etc.) and have chlorine and fluoride added to it. The hierarchy of the best water sources are:

  • Artesian
  • Spring
  • Filtered

The point I’m trying to get across to you is-DRINK MORE WATER! For those of you who are already thinking that this will send you to the bathroom every two seconds, consider this: As you slowly increase your water intake, your body will become more efficient at processing/using the water, and your desire to go will decrease. You can also add a small pinch of Celtic sea salt (not every time) which will help your body assimilate the water and give you a bunch of fantastic trace minerals (electrolytes) that your body needs anyway.

 

On a closing note- Many people mistake the feeling of thirst for hunger, and studies show that adults who drink two, 8-ounce glasses of water before breakfast, lunch, and dinner consumed75-90 fewer calories during each meal.

 

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Personal Training Success In Santa Fe – Emilah

Personal Training Success Story

My name is Emilah DeToro, and I started with Solcore Fitness about 16 months ago, and I chose to work with Ekemba at Solcore because I was hindering myself in my daily life and in my yoga practice. And I really wanted to not be doing that anymore, I wanted to feel strong. I was in quite a bit of pain in my shoulders and neck, and so I thought that the ELDOA program and the work that Ekemba does really support strengthen my core and reducing the pain in my neck and shoulders.

So, I attended classes for all that 16 months…. 8 o’clock in the morning, and from that, it worked. I stopped injuring myself, I had a lot more strength. I often told the story of  going out and using lemming saw to trim my trees about 8 months in and how much stronger my body felt. And so I found that I was more sturdy as I wanted to walk my dog and lot more often. And I just have a lot more energy to be in the world and to be physically active. And so, those were really the benefits for me. It just really woke me up and my body and my spirit too.

Why would you recommend us? Why would you recommend me?

I’d recommend Ekemba just to kind of… just strengthen your core as well as get your posture more aligned so that your body has more fluidity. So, if you are in pain, I think for me that was the big piece. I kept injuring myself, so if you want a more stable frame and to have less pain in your daily movements, that’s what I would recommend. People I would recommend to come here.

Great! Thank you Emilah. I appreciate it.

 

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Goal Setting

Goal Setting

Good Morning,  So I thought I’d reach out to you because once a quarter, I’ll reach out to everybody who’s expressed interest in asking if they have any questions, and I got a question about how I goal set, how I choose my goals? And it goes right along with what we do here SolCore Fitness.

So we have four pillars we work with. We work with diet and water, sleep and rest, proper movement, and of course, your goal setting – your joy, your happiness, what you want in your life. And so you can take that goal setting and enjoying life and apply it to the multiple aspects in your life. So what do you want in your career, what do you want you know your family life to look like? What do you want your health of fitness to be like? And I would argue that strongly that your health and fitness in your… how you treat yourself affects those other aspects of your life and that’s the philosophy we work with here, it’s that we want you to be the best position, so you can really flourish in your life, in your job and your family, because if you’re sick and pissed off the whole time, you know you’re no good to anybody and even more than that, if you have full access to yourself, then you bring all of yourself to every situation, so how do I set it. I start with the big goal. What’s true to me, what I really want to do, how do I want to feel, how I want to move, look? I’ll be honest, I used to break it down to more analytical things – weigh this much, you know make this much money, have as many members, achieve this level education.

I found that very restricting, so I’ve stopped doing that. It was too anal retentive, which is saying something for me. So, I started to stick with just a big picture and then as something came up at me that aligned with what I wanted, I made that a goal. So, you know as my inner self talked to me, I said, okay, that’s my goal. So, I encourage you to really sit down and start to think about this, and don’t expect it to be perfect the first time. It’s an evolution if you just start, so you keep putting it out there, you keep thinking about it, you keep fermenting in your being and it comes out more and more pure and then you can start to really connect with it in yourself, like what feels right, you know that’s where you know. At the start what felt right might be very ego driven, right? So, if it’s ego driven, it’s going to cause you pain because eventually it’s going to get taken away.

So, sit down, take a minute to write this stuff down. I wish I could give you more detail, but this is up to you. This is your job, so we can help you the rest, but if you don’t have a goal, you won’t want to go through the struggle. I read a good book – the simple art of not giving F-U fill in the blank, and as said, is your goal big enough to in essence allow you to go through the struggle, what are you willing to struggle for? Because it’s not all roses and sunshines and ice cream, right? It’s difficult and tough, but you have to decide, do I want short term results just to feel good, or do I want to change and be something different? Either answer is totally correct. If you don’t want to go through struggle, if you are fine with where you are, don’t go through it, it’s pointless, but if you want to become something more, it’s not easy.

So having that goal is going to help you drive through the hard times. Reach out to me – email, phone – 505-577-2171, or you can just comment in the post section on YouTube or Facebook, but good luck to you. Thanks.

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Pelvic Floor NOT Pelvic Door

Why Strengthening Your Pelvis Is A Really Good Idea

What do you think would happen to your house if your foundation was fragile and out of place? Everything above it would also fall. Your entire house would come tumbling down upon itself. To have a proper house you need a good foundation so that it doesn’t come tumbling down.

Then why wouldn’t you treat your body the same way? Why would you ignore your pelvic floor? The answer to this rhetorical question is that you should not ignore it. If you have any desire to have a balanced, strong body then training your pelvic floor is A MUST!

Unfortunately, there is information out there that says it is not that important. I whole-heartedly disagree. Take a look at the picture below. It is of a woman’s pelvis. I am using a woman’s pelvis because it is even more important for them to make sure their pelvis is balanced and strong.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where it says “pubic symphysis” is the front of the body. And where it says Sacral Promontory this is the back of the body. You are looking from above down. Look at all the important contents in there. Gynecological system(part pictured, part not), rectum, bladder (not pictured). All these things are within the pelvis and need to be in the proper place to work correctly. If for example the pelvis is out of balance and the bladder gets twisted this could lead to the inability to fully expel all the urine and lead to a bladder infection.

What you don’t see is the contents above. GI tract, liver, stomach, spleen, heart, lungs, bla, bla, bla…. A lot! They all depend on the pelvic floor being in a good place and strong so as to not allow everything to fall down and in some cases out. It’s called a prolapse and it does not sound fun.

So How Do You Train the Pelvic Floor?

The first and easiest thing you can do is to do Kegel exercises throughout the day. Simply contract your perineum (like your holding your pee for women and men like your taking in a suppository) hold for a couple of beats then release. Do this as much as you can throughout the day.

Problem is this is where most programs stop. This is the incy wincy beginning of your program. This exercise will bring you good awareness and a little bit of strength to your perineum. This won’t develop a lot of strength, it won’t allow you to differentiate it with all the different muscles that work with it, it won’t strengthen the other muscles that are part of the pelvic floor and it won’t keep it balanced.

What Else Works with the Pelvic Floor?

The obturator internus and the Piriformis are both part of the pelvic floor and need to be strengthened as well. The 10 adductor muscles: inner thigh, 3 glutes, 4 layers of abs, the 4 different parts of the Psosas, and the diaphragm all have symbiotic relationships to the pelvic floor. They need to be trained to be able to work in harmony with the pelvic floor. ALL OF IT needs to have the proper amount of stretching so that they stay balanced and mobile.

Here are a couple of images to get you an idea of all the other muscles (not all pictured) that ALSO need to be trained:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this sounds complex that is because the body is complex. There is no “do these 3 things and all is fixed.” But keep it simple at the start and do the Kegels. Then start to contract the muscles listed above that have a symbiotic relationship with it in sequence with the perineum. Learn to work the perineum independently of them. And learn what each feels like.

The main action point here is to realize that it is important and to start doing something about. You want your pelvic floor to be a floor not open like a door.

If you have any questions please reach out to us at info@solcorefitness.com or call us at 505-577-2171. Remember it’s not just working out. It’s building the foundation for a better life.

 

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