emotional wellbeing · Featured · Fitness · Wellness & Spa
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[…]
emotional wellbeing · Featured · Fitness · Wellness & Spa
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
emotional wellbeing · Injury & Recovery · Wellness & Spa
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[…]
Chronic Conditions · Featured · Fitness · Injury & Recovery
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[…]
