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Never Start Cold

That’s right, always take time to stretch and warm-up your muscles and get your blood flowing. Do some light aerobic exercise like cycle or use an elliptical machine for 5-10 minutes prior to working out. This will get your muscles burning and will activate our “Fat-burning” mechanism. See up you tomorrow at 6:30 PM for […]

Happy Sunday

Good morning Coast Fitness friends, it’s a beautiful morning to be active. Before you head out to have breakfast at your favorite pancake spot, take into consideration all you hard workouts of this past week. An average breakfast has 850 calories. An hour of vigorous exercise burns 500 – 700 calories. This means that one […]

Saturday morning Zen Cycle

Hi Coast Fitness friends, great class this morning! I was so pleased to see new members join the class and feel successful at the end. Your heart benefits from the half hour of the cycle portion of the class and the rest of your body grows stronger and more flexible with our yoga practice. You […]

High Intensity Training with Monica

The fundamentals of the High Intensity Training (HIT) class are that exercises are brief, infrequent and intense. We perform our exercises with a high level of effort, or intensity to stimulate the body to produce an increase in muscular strength. As our strength increases, the HIT techniques will have the weight/ resistance increased progressively to […]

Improved Flexibility Through Yoga

Improved flexibility is one of the first and most obvious benefits of yoga. During your first class, you probably won’t be able to touch your toes, never mind do a backbend. But if you stick with it, you’ll notice a gradual loosening, and eventually, seemingly impossible poses will become possible. You’ll also probably notice that […]