Article – Yoga for Osteoporosis: Supporting Strength, Bones, and Balance Enjoy this month’s guest article written by yoga practitioner Bonnie Golden with all of the links accessible at http://www.yogawithbonnie.com/yoga-osteoporosis/ Have you or a friend been diagnosed with osteoporosis or “osteopenia”? If so, you have plenty of company. The startling facts: approximately 10 million Americans have been diagnosed…
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June 2017 Newsletter
Article – Age On Your Terms: 6 Aging Myths Debunked As coaches of the boomer generation and beyond, we have heard countless individuals come into our studio already prepared to tell us what they can’t do because of their age or what limitations they have because of their age. I am here to debunk 6 common myths….
May 2017 Newsletter
Article – Genes: An Expression of YOU As I was finishing up a session recently, I was talking with a client who is really set on getting her fitness back to a previously realized level she knows she can attain. As I asked her about what she was doing to compliment her sessions at BodyBasics she beamed…
April 2017 Newsletter
Article – Move Better Trick: Happy Fascia Venture into any health club, physical therapy clinic, or even hotel fitness room and you’ll most likely see someone rolling themselves, either with a self-massager tool in some kind of standing position or with a cylindrical roll of some density and length on the ground. The concept, often referred…
March 2017 Newsletter
Article – Stretching 101 Often the first thing omitted from someone’s exercise program, stretching is incredibly important. The benefits of stretching are many with some of the top ones being improved circulation, relief from tension, support for us to maintain optimum posture, and an aid to minimize our risk for injury. (1) In order to realize these…
February 2017 Newsletter
Guest Article – Success Has Many Definitions: Joyfully Achieve Your Goals & Live Authentically. How Will You Grow in 2017? Will you become stronger? More resilient? Better Balanced? More agile? Your 2017 accomplishments largely depend on what you do today. By setting realistic, timely, and challenging goals, you can stretch yourself to new possibilities. Many of us…
December 2016 Newsletter
Article – The Truth about Sitting In recent years the concept of sitting being harmful to our health has picked up quite a bit of steam. The attention is justified! According to Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative who authored the phrase “sitting is the new smoking”, sitting for…
November 2016 Newsletter
Welcome Rachel Colbus Rachel is originally from Orlando, Florida, but lived all over the world during her time in the Air Force. She retired in Tucson and decided this was the perfect place to call home. Rachel has always been physically active but was never interested in making a career in the fitness industry until…
September 2016 Newsletter
Get Ahead of Your Health Seminar Series Our last seminar will be September 29th, come join us. BodyBasics and MDVIP doctor, Dr. Thomas Griffin, will join together to put on the fourth and final in a four part progressive lecture series, Feeling Good For Life. This interactive series is partly based on Dr. Griffin’s book “The…
July 2016 Newsletter
Get Ahead of Your Health Seminar Series Our first seminar was a huge success with almost 60 people in attendance! Our next seminar will be July 28th, come join us. BodyBasics and MDVIP doctor, Dr. Thomas Griffin, will join together to put on the second in a four part progressive lecture series, Feeling Good For…
June 2016 Newsletter
Get Ahead of Your Health Seminar Series BodyBasics and MDVIP doctor, Dr. Thomas Griffin, will join together to put on a four part progressive lecture series, Feeling Good For Life. This interactive series is based on Dr. Griffin’s book “The Physician’s Blueprint for Feeling Good for Life”. The workshops will focus on simple and effective…
May 2016 Newsletter
Fond Farewell to Mike Haas It’s with great reluctance I write this farewell. As most of you all know Mike has been an anchor leg on our team for 8 years so you can imagine my feelings about seeing him go. That said I am super happy for both Mike and his wife Susan as they…
Movement = Life
Movement is the foundation of our lives. This rang so true for me on recent trip with my son and the majority of his seventh grade class. I was one of several chaperones who got to experience the wondrous beauty of the Grand Canyon. It probably won’t come as a surprise to any of…
April 2016 Newsletter
Welcome Kristian Martorana Kristian is a Tucson native who attended Canyon Del Oro High School. As a young child he was introduced to sports, primarily baseball which kept him busy and active. After graduating from high school, Kristian attended the U of A with the intention of attending medical school. After his first year, Kristian…
March 2016 Newsletter
Best of the Northwest Again! Thank you to all of our supporters for awarding us Best of the Northwest for the 4th consecutive year! Article – What Is Good Nutrition? Part Three Improved Nutrition for Improved Health In 5 Easy Steps Nutrition has become way too complicated. Magazine articles talking about it contradict each other, sometimes…
February 2016 Newsletter
Welcome to our new team member, Michele Sullivan Most of you have already met Michele, our newest team member but those of you who have not please let us tell you about her. Michele graduated from the University Of North Dakota where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and her Masters of Science…
January 2016 Newsletter
Article – What Is Good Nutrition? Part Two Happy New Year everyone and welcome to 2016! For those of you who have been faithfully reading my articles you will recall that last month I started a series exploring some solid and evidence-based answers to the question, “What is good nutrition?” I provided five important criteria that…
December 2015 Newsletter
Article – What is “Good” Nutrition? Nutrition is a curious subject. Put diet in as the sole search criteria in Google and you will realize 467,000,000 results in less than 1 second! Considering that our current population in the United States is 318.9 million, diet is on a LOT of people’s minds! Monthly magazines tout…
November 2015 Newsletter
Article – Mobility: The Real Fountain of Youth There is nothing that pulls at my heart strings more than seeing someone who has lost their ability to move well because of lifestyle choices that have now caught up with them and compromised the quality of their movement. It doesn’t matter the age. I’ve witnessed grade…
October 2015 Newsletter
Article – Myelin: The Gatekeeper to Developing Any Skill I have a question for you. Have you ever heard the phrase muscle memory? I certainly have. In fact, I’ve used that very phrase many times over the last 20+ years of coaching health and fitness with my clients. I couldn’t tell you where I heard it…
September 2015 Newsletter
Article – How To Slay A Habit Have you ever gone to bed telling yourself you were going to get up early the next day and go for a walk? How many times have made a commitment with yourself to curb your late night snacking? Do you find yourself in a cycle of repeated behaviors…
