THE OYF BLOG

LIFE LESSONS FROM REFORMER PILATES

We can learn a lot about ourselves through our workouts - not only about our bodies and how we connect to them, but also about who we are, our mindset, and how we look at the world. Every experience in our lives can teach us something new, and workout classes are no...

Simplify Your Strength Training: The Hidden Power of Mat Pilates and Bodyweight Training

If you’re someone who likes to keep up with the hot new thing or try everything new once, you may have noticed that the popularity of fitness classes, like fashion or music, tends to pass by in fads. The 80s brought aerobics, jazzercise, and home workout videos. In...

FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: PAIN RELIEF

One unfortunate inevitability of life seems to be that at some point, no matter what sort of life we’ll lead, we’ll experience some sort of pain. If you spend most of your day sitting in a desk chair, you might get aches and pains in your back or shoulders from...

FAR INFRARED & YOUR BODY: SKIN PURIFICATION

We know beauty comes from the inside out, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to look and feel our best. In our past couple articles, we’ve covered many ways far infrared can help you, inside and out - relieving pain, relieving stress, or increasing immunity, but...

FAR Infrared Heat & Your Body : Weight Loss

There’s a lot of options you could pursue to fit fitness into your life, just like there’s a lot of opportunities you could choose to work in the fitness industry. But not all options are equal, and when we as our members and studio owners alike what led them to...

Back to Basics: Positions of Rest

The new year has officially started, which for many of us goal and dream oriented individuals means a desire to jump headfirst into our new workout goals. We at Oxygen Yoga & Fitness are happy to support you on that journey. Counter-intuitive as it may seem, one...

Back to Basics 2: Core Strength

Welcome back to our back to basics series. In our last article, we covered the importance of good posture and how it can affect us both in the studio and in our day to day lives. One important aspect of our posture is how we hold our core. Today, let's refresh...

Back to Basics 1: Posture

As we’re heading into the new year, many of us may be taking time away from our normal schedule . At Oxygen Yoga & Fitness, we find this can be a great time to return to our roots. Instead of focusing on how your workout routine may be disrupted, you can take this...

Ready, Set, Goals! Setting Workout Goals starts now!

Your OYF Guide to Setting Workout Goals We know everyone comes into our Oxygen Yoga & Fitness studios for different reasons. We want to be there to help you get what you’re looking for out of our classes, whether it’s an hour to get out of your head or a part of...

Pre-Holiday Workout Motivation trouble? Let us help!

Find Your Perfect Pre-holiday Workout Motivation We’re approaching that part of the year where time can fly by at an inexplicably faster rate than it has for the first ten months of the year. It can feel at this point in the year that the opportunity to accomplish...

Natasha’s Blog

Really Good Smoothie Recipes   Since I wrote about Dr Oz’s meal plan earlier in the week I wanted to include some more smoothie recipes because he only has one in his program.  Right after my second son I went hard core on the protein smoothies and below I have...

Natasha’s Blog

2-Week Rapid Weight Loss Plan   On the weekend is when I tend to watch TV because really it’s my only downtime during the week, so I was scanning through my DVR and decided to watch a marathon of Dr Oz.  I don’t know if many of you watch Dr Oz but I really love...

Breaks are ok :)

Breaks are ok 🙂

Give Yourself a Break "You don't have to be a fitness saint to get results. Follow the 80/20 plan: Eighty percent of the year, you'll exercise regularly and eat well. Know that you'll slip 20 percent of the time due to holidays and work deadlines. When you accept that...

Natasha’s Blog

Tips on How to Lose Weight     So hopefully you read my post from earlier this week, because it works in conjunction with the tips here, but if not you can find it on the oxygen web siteJ   Anyways it’s a new year and I’m sure you want to read another...

Water, water, water

Water, water, water

Make Water The Main Beverage Hydration is essential for any high functioning athlete. Decrease in performance occurs when the body is even two percent dehydrated . Approximately three to four liters of water is expelled every day at rest through breathing, sweating...

Natasha’s Blog

5 Healthy Eating Tips for 2014   After the holidays most of us are looking to clean up our diets, whether your trying to lose weight, tone up or just over all be healthier it’s a always a good idea to begin with your nutrition.   Now I’d just like to point...

Richelle’s Blog

New Blog Post: January Fitness Challenge: Day 1-3 Check in The first few days of the fitness challenge are underway, and I feel like I may be falling behind. Well, really, I’ve just been busy. And sick. Day 1 I was super motivated to get my butt moving so I ran to the...

Natasha’s Blog

Happy New Year everyone!! If you aren’t regular with your yoga practice now here are a few more reasons why you should be!   Aside from the obvious benefits of practicing yoga, i.e. improving your flexibility, strength and cardiovascular health, there have also...