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The Power of Fitness Training for Golfers
Holistic fitness training programs help improve performance on the golf course and promote long-term health and longevity. Here are a few fitness training tips to enhance your game.
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Harnessing the Power of Weight Training for Seniors
For Seniors looking to enhance their overall well-being, and shed unwanted pounds, weight training emerges as a highly effective and safe exercise option.
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6 Reasons to Incorporate Strength Training into Your Workout
A 30-minute strength training session can be a powerful catalyst for improving overall fitness and health. While it might seem brief, this focused workout can yield significant benefits.
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10 Tips To Unlock Your Fitness Potential
Embarking on a fitness journey can be both exciting and overwhelming, regardless of your experience level. Whether you're a fitness enthusiast or a beginner, having an expert fitness consultation can help you unlock your fitness potential.
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Five Tips For Beginning Yoga
If you’ve never tried yoga, it can be a little intimidating and you might not know what to expect. So, we’ve touched base with our yoga instructor extraordinaire, Deb Condo, to bring you five things you should know about yoga.
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Acing the Long Game of Life
Staying healthy, especially as we age, is about more than hitting the gym. It’s about ensuring you are giving your body the fuel and rest it needs to recover and excel. We have some key biomarkers that tend to either flare-up or diminish as we exercise and tips for what to do.
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How to Squat and Maximize your Strength
Squats are compound exercises that work multiple joints and muscle groups at a time. From your glutes, quads, hamstrings and calves to core muscles and key ligaments in the legs, squats can help strengthen your lower body and improve flexibility.
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Couples Fitness 4 Tips for Working Out Together
Couples who work out together often see better results, have more fun in the gym, and enjoy more personal connections through health and fitness. Read on for helpful tips to started exercising with your spouse.
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6 life lessons learned at the gym
Many of us have belonged to at least one gym in our adult life and some of us have joined several. No matter if you’re going to a big box gym, a smaller boutique style, the fitness center in your community, or somewhere in between, most of the lessons we learn at the gym can be applied to everyday life.
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COVID-19 Brings Lasting Change To Club Offerings
This year has brought a lot of change and, like the rest of the world, we’ve had to overhaul processes and find ways to continue to serve members while staying safe and within various COIVD-19 restrictions. At Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club, we pride ourselves on providing our private golf club members with a certain lifestyle. One that, in addition to golf, includes great dining, lively social events, a robust fitness program and top-tier service.
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Fitness is Key
With most gyms still closed, how do we get or stay healthy? Yes, gyms make it easy with classes and machines, but the truth is getting and staying healthy doesn’t require anything but you and maybe a little discipline. Don’t overthink it and don’t make it complicated. Here are some simple ideas to get started and to keep going.
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3 Tips to Protect Your Skin in the Heat
The game of golf is fabulous year round in Arizona, and the summers offers more opportunities to play at great courses. There are many things to consider before you plan your next visit to our Nicklaus-designed golf courses during the summer months here in the Valley of the Sun. Read on for 3 great tips on staying cool and comfortable and keeping your skin out of those rays!
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Why Are Smoothies Good For You?
Smoothies are quick, easy, and can be taken on the go. They are also a great way to get in a lot of nutrition without a lot of effort. This tasty treat is delicious any time of day, however, breakfast and post-workout are the most common time for people to add a smoothie to their supportive nutrition plan.
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4 Ways to Maintain a Positive Mindset and Your Daily Routine
Maintaining a positive attitude is critical during times of stress. We have put together 4 tips for maintaining your positive attitude no matter what life throws your way.
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Guide To The Best Spring Hiking Destinations
Here at Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club, members have close access to a wide variety of regional parks and hiking trails fit for all skill levels. From scenic strolls like the iconic Wave Cave to rewarding adventures like the San Tan Trail, here are a few top hiking destinations perfect for exploring this spring.
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3 health benefits of Yoga
Developed in India, yoga is a spiritual practice that has been evolving for 5,000 years. Yoga is known for its great spiritual and emotional health benefits, it brings together physical and mental disciplines that may help you achieve peacefulness of body and mind. The Mayo Clinic sites these top three health benefits to doing yoga:
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Fitness Tips for Your New Year's Resolutions
When the new year comes around many of us find ourselves making new year’s resolutions, especially related to our health and fitness. Here are a few tips to help you stay motivated throughout your 2020 fitness journey.
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How to Relax and Recharge During the Holidays
It’s easy to get caught up in the stress that comes along with the holidays. Between buying gifts, baking cookies, decorating the house, attending events and preparing for guests, there is almost no time left in the day to take a deep breath and truly enjoy the most wonderful time of the year.
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Memorial Day Reflections
Guest blogger and fitness professional, Drew Saenz, reflects on Memorial Day, a fallen hero, and the CrossFit movement that has taken the country by storm. When I was growing up this day was always just another day off school that I could sleep in, hang out with friends, and put off my obligations. It didn’t have any meaning to me, nor did my family put an emphasis on the importance of this day. As I matured, I quickly realized how backwards the majority of Americans have this holiday.
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Tips on HIIT Training Workouts for Seniors
HIIT or High Intensity Interval Training is a short period of intense exercise, usually 30 seconds – followed by a less intense ‘recovery’ period. This pairing is repeated for 20-36 minutes. Think “boot camp” style.
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The Benefits of Resistance Training for Older Adults
You may be tempted to forgo your resistance training and head outdoors for some aerobic exercise in the fresh air. Fitness Professional and Founder of Team Up Health and Fitness, Drew Saenz, tells us why resistance training is so important to our health.
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4 Ways to Encourage your Spouse in a Healthy Lifestyle
Fitness Professional and Founder of Team Up Health and Fitness Drew Saenz gives advice on supporting your spouse in a healthy lifestyle and shares his own personal experience. Here are four fool proof ways to support your spouse on a life long journey to better health without causing a negative impact on your relationship.
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How to Reach Your Fitness and Wellness Goals
Perhaps you want to eat a more healthy diet or lose the winter weight that has crept upon you. Maybe you just want to establish a regular workout routine and stick with it this time. The keys to your success are two-fold: Steady the target and create momentum.
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Top 6 New Year's Resolutions for 2019
With a new year comes new resolutions. We’re all familiar with the same old promises such as losing weight, eating healthier and watching less TV. While those are great things to work on, try changing it up this year. Here are some unique resolutions to make the most of 2019.
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5 Tips to Stay Fit During the Holidays
At Superstition Mountain we offer highly certified and educated personal trainers that can assist with workouts or meet with you individually to prepare a program that's right for you. Travelling for the holidays? Stay fit with these 5 tips!
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5 Tips for a Healthy Holiday Season
At Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club in Phoenix, we always look forward to the annual Thanksgiving feast with our members. Whether it’s with family or friends, this is a great time of year to reconnect over delicious homemade meals and treats. Here are ways you can lighten up your recipes for a healthier holiday season.
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5 Tips to Get Better at Tennis Without a Court
The perfect weather for tennis season is in full swing, and now is a great time to focus on your skills. It’s easy to think about technical skills on the court, but what about things you can do off the court? Here are some simple tips you can add into your everyday routine to help improve your overall tennis game.
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Improve Your Golf Swing with Tai Chi in Phoenix
At Superstition Mountain, members of the private golf club in East Valley Phoenix have full access to a variety of fitness classes and wellness programs. The most recent addition to the line up is Tai Chi, which will be hosted every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
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Healthy Green Juice Recipes to Supercharge your Health
No matter how committed we are to getting in the recommended five to nine servings of vegetables and fruits every day, sometimes we come up short. There are many reasons to consider adding green drinks to your diet.
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Health and Fitness Tips: Train Smarter Not Harder
There are few things as exciting as new boot campers eager to make serious lifestyle changes and make up for lost time in their quest to get fit and healthy.
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Health and Fitness Tips: How to Avoid Sugar Cravings in the Summer
What do Insulin Resistance and Summer Have in Common? Plenty, it turns out, and it has everything to do with what you’re eating this summer. Even though summer brings with it an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables, making it easier to eat healthily, it also brings added risks.
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4 Ways to Beat Summer Weight Gain
You spent the winter working hard, you exercised consistently, you were careful to eat more healthy foods and you watched your portion sizes. Why? So you would look great at the lake and have plenty of energy to enjoy summer. You greeted summer with a healthy, toned body.
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Top Tips on How to Relax for Optimum Health
Vacation season is in full swing. Whether you are traveling to the mountains or the beach, it’s the time of year when many of us start planning for a much needed break from the daily grind.
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10 Health and Fitness Tips for the Summer
If you have been working out over the past winter and spring months, you may be surprised at the new challenges that summertime fitness throws at you. Today is the first day of summer, and you are probably discovering that your body reacts to the heat and humidity differently than it does to cooler, drier conditions.
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10 Ways to Burn Calories Fast
On some days, you simply don't have time for your usual workout. Perhaps you are traveling, you have meetings from dawn ‘til dusk or something unexpected comes up and your workout time disappears. When life steals your exercise time, you don't have to forgo your workout. If you have a few minutes, you can burn off 100 calories, get your heart pumping fast, and redeem your workout.
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4 Reasons Why You're Not Losing Weight
Wondering why you’re not seeing the weight loss results you desire? Our Fitness Professionals from TeamUp put together their top four why you're not losing weight.
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5 Ways to Deal with Tax Season Stress
Tax season can be grueling. If you are like many people, you feel increased stress around tax day, April 15. Tensions can run high from the pressure of getting the forms filed on time or coming up with the funds to pay your tax bill. While you can never get away from all stress, there is much you can do to keep it under control and thus temper its effects on you. Consider the following tips to deal with tax season stress.
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5 Tips to Stay Hydrated this Summer
Drinking fluids is important to staying healthy. Older adults often don't get enough fluids and risk becoming dehydrated, especially during summer when it's hotter and people perspire more. If you're not hydrated, your body can't perform at its highest level. You may feel tired, have muscle cramps, dizziness, or other serious symptoms.
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The Best Pre-Workout Food
When exercising, it is vital to fuel your body properly to ensure you are not burning precious muscles for fuel. At Superstition Mountain Golf and Country Club we have a team of certified fitness professional to help you get on the right path for a health lifestyle.
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Top 4 Ways to Keep Your New Year's Resolution
4 tips to help you keep your New Year's resolution. 1. Write it down. 2. Make Your Goals Realistic. 3. Evaluate Frequently. 4. Ask for Help.
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Sun Safety Tips for the Arizona Winter
The scorching summer heat is an obvious reminder to take crucial steps to protect yourself from the sun. However, during the perfect cooler weather we experience the rest of the year, steps should still be taken to protect yourself from the sun. Check out these sun safety tips from our retail and golf pros.
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