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Keep your Golf Game Sharp this Winter
Here's a link to a recent article about Golf in Saratoga Today Open publication - Free publishing - More saratoga today
The Importance of Warming Up
At Saratoga Health and Wellness we always recommend starting your exercise routine with a warm up. Doing a warm up before your workout is important in many ways. A good warm up will gradually increase your heart rate, increase circulation to your muscles, tendons and...
Can you do a Push up?
Many people can’t, but training to be able to do it is fun and can develop a lot of important muscles in the process. It’s perhaps one of my favorite upper body strengthening and core exercises rolled up into 1 nice movement. A push up is actually a very...
Keeping Halloween Healthy
Don’t let Halloween trick you this year. This is the time of year when BIG bags of candy show up on the shelves of all the stores we frequent. Just because its a “holiday”, doesn’t mean you should stray too far from your healthy habits. Here are some tips to help keep...
Are you fit for ski season?
We love to ski at Saratoga Health and Wellness. Check out a recent article written by Mike for Saratoga Today about exercises for skiing. Enjoy! [issuu viewMode=singlePage width=550 height=711 embedBackground=%2310cf10 pageNumber=45 shareMenuEnabled=false...
Top Ten Reasons to Exercise
At Saratoga Health and Wellness, many of our clients begin an exercise program with ambitions of losing a few pounds. What gets overlooked are all the other benefits of beginning a regular exercise routine. Exercise has a number of scientifically proven physical and...
Carbs are NOT Making You Fat.
Carbs are not making you fat... I may take a little heat for this statement, but it’s a topic that we address a lot at Saratoga Health and Wellness. Allow me to explain. Here’s the deal. Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats are known as macronutrients and...
Integrating Exercise into Daily Life
Several people come across our path at Saratoga Health & Wellness who claim “there just isn't enough time in the day for me to exercise”. It’s sometimes tough to carve out 30-60 minutes a day (or several days a week) to meet the recommended 150 minutes of exercise...
Balance Basics
How’s your balance? It may not be as good as you think. Balance diminishes with age and poor balance can set the stage for a nasty fall -- a major cause of injury and disability. The eyes and ears are an integral part of the vestibular (balance) system. The eyes are...