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CFWs Beth Vivio honored as a Top 5 Fabulous Female leading Tampa Bay Business and Philanthropic Communities
CFW is proud to congratulate our Owner and President, Beth Vivio on her most recent honor as a Fabulous Female leading the Tampa Bay business and philanthropic communities. The “Fabulous Females” award is presented by the Academy Prep Centers of St. Petersburg, honoring five influential and inspirational women for their contributions to the community while…
Read MoreTrainer Interview: Top 10 Workout Tips
Written by: Jennifer Miles, CFW Health and Fitness Professional Looking for ways to improve your workout? Here are some trainer tips to help you out! Make a plan: Nothing just happens, be sure you know what you are doing before you show up for your workout. Pick out your clothes the night before and think…
Read MoreFood Without Fear
Written by: Keriann Hill, Health Fitness Program Manager Anyone who knows me knows that eating is one of my favorite parts of the day. Co-workers ask how my day is going and my typical response is, “Always good when I’m having a snack!” My clients are often surprised at the quantity and variety of foods…
Read MoreOur Immune System – Peeling Back the Layers
Written by: MacKenzie Hayman, Health Fitness Program Manager In the most recent years, there has been a plethora of information published surrounding our immune system. These publications, in late, have surrounded the topic of vaccines and immunization. But these are only part of one of our three layers of immune health. All three layers work…
Read MoreFinding the Yin & the Yang of a Hybrid Life
Written by: Mitch Beck, CFW Health Fitness Specialist Yin & Yang, the visual definition of balance. With Covid throwing the world off balance and most of us now working from home, we have found ourselves in a sometimes rewarding yet hectic hybrid life circus. Sometimes you get the kids ready with no problem and make…
Read MoreHDLs, Heart Rate, and Blood Pressure…OH MY!
Written by: Morgan Shawler, CFW Health Fitness Specialist Imagine, you are looking at your health checkup report and the readings say: 124/79 mmHg, 58 mg/dL, 72 bpm and the list goes on. You are thinking to yourself, “Are these good or are these bad? What does mmHg even mean? What are HDLs?” To answer the…
Read MoreWorking Hard, Even When Your Goals Fall Short
Written by: Alicia Yuhas, CFW Health Fitness Program Manager Setting goals is critical to accomplishing more in life. Goals are the steps we take to turn our dreams into reality. The end of the year is a great time to evaluate your goals. If you follow the SMART goal setting strategy, your goals should be…
Read MoreSitting On Productivity – How To Get Your Workforce Active and More Productive
It will come as no shock that people today are busier than they’ve ever been. But what may come as a surprise: we’re sitting far longer than we realize, thanks to our personal lives and our work tasks. With technology, smart phones, Netflix, and digital communications channels – and scrolling social media – we oftentimes…
Read MoreSleep and Our Health
Written by: Kyle Vassar, CFW Health Fitness Professional We look at our diet and exercise and think “That’s health. That’s what determines a healthy person”. And although those are very important contributors to our health, we are missing another really important part: sleep. Getting a good night’s sleep makes me wake up with a fogless…
Read MoreCreating a Healthy Hybrid Workforce
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, every organization was trying to figure out how to implement a remote working environment. Businesses from global enterprises to regional organizations worked through the challenges of defining remote work for their organization, and which employees had jobs that required working in the office. As organizations…
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