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Illuminate Your Skin With A Vitality Center Facial

June 6, 2018

It’s fun to play outside in the mountains, but Vail’s high altitude sun is harsh on the skin. The Spa at the Vail Vitality Center offers an Illuminate Facial that encourages cell turnover and overall rejuvenation in the skin, so the dry and damaging climate of Vail won’t take so much of a toll. “When we’re in our twenties and thirties, skin turns over every 28 days or so,” shares Lisa DeKoster with the Spa. “But the older you get, the slower it turns over, so it can be more like a 50-day cycle. And when that happens, skin can just be kind of dull.” The specialized Illuminate Facial is a refining treatment that uses either microdermabrasion or dermaplaning to[…]

Fitness · Injury & Recovery

Elevated Personal Training at the Vail Vitality Center

December 21, 2017

Elite Training Suite offers exclusive access to health and fitness goals. The investment of personal training through the Vail Vitality Center has just gotten even more valuable. The facility has developed the Elite Training Suite for anyone looking to work toward their health and fitness goals with a personalized and private training session. The room has all the equipment needed for a full-body workout, including a bench, dumbbells, kettlebells, a FreeMotion dual cable cross machine, a SPARK trainer, treadmill and Concept2 rower. There is also plenty of open space in the center of the room, making it ideal for movement-based work like plyometrics, as well as a perfect space for a private yoga or mat pilates class. “When you’re paying[…]

emotional wellbeing · Featured · Fitness · Wellness & Spa

Generation Functional Training classes at Vitality Center

February 29, 2016

The Vail Vitality Center offers support for Vail’s older generations Community is an important part of any health club atmosphere. Director of The Vail Vitality Center, Jeff Morgan, explains that for members and guests to feel at home, it’s a priority to create a healthy culture and familiar camaraderie. “One big program in the fitness industry is that a lot of gyms and business owners are claiming they have ‘great community,’ without really understanding what that means,” says Morgan. The Vail Vitality Center provides a platform of support for the community as a whole, with specialized programs for everyone from young athletes to older generations. “Our community is geared towards all ages old and young,” shares Morgan. “We have taken[…]

emotional wellbeing · Featured · Fitness · Wellness & Spa

Holiday Heath: 7 Ways To Keep Your Spirit Bright

December 15, 2015

The holidays are meant to be joyous and fun, but they often unravel differently — with feelings that can include stress, sadness, imbalance and overwhelm. Mindfulness and discerning actions in this Holiday Health series can really help to make the season a time we look forward to, rather than a time we dread. Twyla Gingrich, mental health and substance abuse clinician for Mind Springs Health, offers some suggestions for a creating peace and joy this holiday season: 1. Soften Your Expectations “One of the biggest culprits is expectations,” Gingrich says of what causes holiday overload. “Expectations of how the holidays ‘should’ go, and if we don’t live up to those, [we think] we’ve failed.” Drop the “should” when it comes to[…]

Wellness & Spa

Improve Your Emotional IQ

June 25, 2015

At the most basic level, Emotional Intelligence (EI), is being smart with, and about, feelings. “This means really getting to know your feelings, intimately, and using your feelings as data to live more mindfully — more consciously and intentionally, more proactively and less reactively,” explains Shannon Short, life coach and certified assessor for the 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence (SEI). The 6 Seconds organization says EI is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions. Here is the model of EI in Action, which includes three pursuits: Know yourself — Awareness: becoming more aware, tuning into emotional data — noticing what you do (and feel). Choose yourself — Management: becoming more intentional, responding consciously — doing what you mean to do (proactively[…]

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Love Your Lymph: Stimulate Your Body’s Detox System This Spring

April 14, 2015

Here’s our part 2 on lymph; READ MORE HERE on your lymph system and detoxification for spring cleaning in you body! All of the body’s moving parts and internal systems work together to try and maintain health and vitality for you, but leave it to the lymph system to level off toxicity, acidity and inflammation. “This is why maintaining good lymphatic drainage is vital for a strong immune system and maintaining optimal health,” says Dr. Steven Schwartz of Balanced Health Center, Vail Valley. Dr. Schwartz has been specializing in the treatment of chronic illness, allergies, systemic inflammation and chronic pain since 2000. Like any other fluid system in the body, he says, if the lymph system becomes congested, the ability to[…]

Featured · Fitness

Local Legacies Are Alive In Vail Mountain Winter Uphill

February 19, 2015

Leave it to a national cross-country ski champion to race up Vail Mountain on skate skies. Local athlete Sylvan Ellefson did just that on one of his two past ascents of the Vail Mountain Winter Uphill. “It’s a fun event, because you’re going uphill, you’re working hard for yourself and you’re out there to have fun,” he said. “As much as racing up the mountain at 7 o’clock in the morning might not seem like fun, it is.” Now in it’s eight year, the Vail Mountain Winter Uphill pays tribute to Ellefson’s father, Lyndon, a U.S. Mountain Running Team athlete who died in 1998 after a crevasse fall during a training session in Italy. “When we first heard about the[…]

Nutrition · Wellness & Spa

Get To Know Your Thyroid: Is it time to treat your metabolism trigger?

January 30, 2015

The thyroid controls the body regulates temperature, metabolism, and how much energy is expended at rest. Thyroid imbalances are often associated with weight management struggles, because when the thyroid doesn’t produce as much of the thyroid hormone, then the body’s processes (like the metabolism) slow down. “In a normally functioning system, metabolism should be a normal, efficient process that does not need to be ‘managed’ other than with following basic healthy lifestyle guidelines,” explains Dr. Steven Schwartz of Balanced Health Center, Vail Valley. “If it is a constant battle to keep weight off, there could be a thyroid issue, a chronic infection issue, a digestive issue or even an adrenal issue.” Symptoms Of Thyroid Disfunction Benjamin Stone with Sigma Human[…]

emotional wellbeing · Injury & Recovery · Wellness & Spa

My Myofascial Release: Energy shifts and emotional epiphanies

August 7, 2014

I never thought about pain as being toxic, but since toxicity is defined as the degree to which a substance can damage an organism, I guess I was wrong. Not only does this definition align with physical pain, but with emotional pain as well. However it shows up — discomfort, tension, resistance — pain is a toxin in our bodies in its variety of symptoms. Some indications of pain are excruciatingly obvious, while others are are not-so-apparent. While physical pain doesn’t allow itself to be ignored, emotional pain is not always so persistent. In fact, it gets stuck sometimes, and it may take an intentional and assisted physical release to move it up and out of the body. Subtle Shifts[…]

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Overtraining and Fatigue in Athletes: An Article by Dr. Iñigo San Millán, PhD

September 20, 2013

OVERTRAINING AND FATIGUE IN ATHLETES. THE IMPORTANCE OF MONITORING ATHLETES It is a general assumption that a training program will always work. However there are many factors that can interfere with the proper assimilation of training and therefore elicit a maladaptation or an overtraining state. The first principle of training is the overload principle, where the body is stressed in order to elicit an adaptation and an improvement in performance which is called supercompensation and the second principle of training. However for a supercomensation to occur it is crucial to have a correct assimilation of the training load as well as a recovery. The problem affecting many athletes is that either the training overload is too much and/or the recovery[…]