I love walking. I walk around my neighborhood almost every morning. It clears my head, it’s easy on my joints, and the research on walking and longevity is genuinely encouraging. So when women over 50 ask me, “Is walking enough exercise?” I want to...
Key Takeaways Lean muscle tissue regulates blood sugar, protects joints, and supports hormonal balance. Losing muscle through chronic dieting or cardio-only programs undermines all of these systems at once. “Normal weight obesity,” where a person has a...
Key Takeaways The “eat less, move more” model is not wrong, but it leaves out hormones, stress, sleep, and your personal dieting history, all of which shape how your body responds to food and exercise. Repeated dieting can trigger metabolic adaptation, a...
Let’s get something straight: if you’re still thinking about strength training as a way to “tone up” or “look good in a bikini,” we need to have a conversation. Because here’s the reality, lifting weights is about something...
Because your body deserves more than the limitations of a broken healthcare system. We’re so happy you found us—especially if you’re here because you’re frustrated, in pain, and feeling like the traditional healthcare system has let you down....
In a world that increasingly pulls us toward sedentary behaviors—sitting at desks, commuting in cars, unwinding in front of screens—daily movement has become essential, not optional. At Portland Integrative Fitness, we consider consistent, daily movement as...
The Personal Training Environment We Want to Avoid As I scroll through Instagram, I realize there is 1 narrative or story that is predominant about personal training. Usually it looks like someone with very little body fat, yelling at someone with more body fat, in an...
My first job as a personal trainer was with my sweet mentor, Ian Rubin. I was lucky to study under a person with whom I shared similar philosophies in life. Both Ian and I integrated those philosophies into our work. We would chat frequently about why we did what we...
