How is Indoor Cycling Transforming My Body?
If you feel like you've been spinning your wheels lately in the gym, it may be time to try a new style of exercise: Indoor cycling! This accessible, challenging, and FUN workout offers so many bene…
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3 Ways to Maximize Your Fitness Routine After Daylight Saving Time
The whole daylight saving time debacle can get pretty heated: some people love it, some people hate it. But for someone like you who wants to keep crushing workouts no matter what happens to the clock…
Exercise Rule #1: Don’t Skip a Proper Warm-Up
A proper warm-up is beneficial for a lot of reasons. For one thing, a warm-up will stimulate blood flow, increase oxygenation to your muscles, loosen up your tissues, prime your central nervous system…
How to Hack Your Workout Plan and Avoid Plateaus with Periodization Training
For people who do well with structure, approaching their health and fitness with a periodization approach can be extremely beneficial. Why? Because periodization training, or the process of divvying u…
How Functional Fitness Makes Everyday Life Easier
We applaud you if you're working toward some aesthetic- or performance-based goals with all the effort you're putting in here at PNW Fitness. But we hope you realize just how much your overall quality…
The Shorter, The Better — Why You Should Start Doing Short Distance Runs
Are you the type of person who likes to put some headphones on, head out for a long run, and zone out for an hour or so? That's cool if you are—but we encourage you to pepper in plenty of short distan…
Make Your Back Muscles a Priority Again with These Back-Strengthening Exercises
We hear you summertime: sun's out guns out and sky's out thighs out! But now that the season is turning, this might be the perfect time to re-assess your training program and make sure you're addressi…
Start Carving Out Your Fall Abs with this 5 Move Ab Workout Routine
Before you dive into the pumpkin lattes and get gourd fever during the next few months, how about using these last weeks to carve out your abs with a new ab workout routine before getting a start on t…
Is a Long Gym Sesh a Good Idea? 5 Tips to Maximize Your Extended Workout
For the sake of your body, brain, and even mental health, adding in one extended workout per week can be a GREAT idea. But if the concept of a 60+ minute workout sounds a bit daunting, don't worry, we…
Incorporate Superset Exercises to Develop a Superhero Body
If you've never utilized superset exercises in your strength training routine before, you're missing out on an efficient and engaging way to get a great workout done! What is a superset? You can t…