Category Fitness

Board Certified Celebration Special!!!!

Align Rochester – A Fitness Health and Wellness Company

What Are People Saying About Align Rochester?

“Jessica is very knowledgeable on many domains of health, genuine and a true pleasure to work with on your journey. She goes out of her way to be flexible to accommodate your personal unique circumstances and meet you where you are at. She is strength-based, direct, motivating and supportive. I highly recommend her for your […]

Align Rochester Services

We are proud to provide the following services at Align Rochester:  Pilates/Fitness Training – Align Rochester provides group sessions as well as one on one private sessions, semi-private sessions and trios. The type of fitness session can range from reformer Pilates to upbeat cardio circuit classes to meditative stretch sessions and everything in between. All […]

What is a FMCHC?

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How Exercise Helped Me to Grieve

This is how I was able to use movement to deal with terribly difficult situations.

Pilates – why such low reps?

For the most part the Classical Pilates repertoire consists of approximately 4-6 repetitions of each exercise. This is across all pieces of apparatus. You may think “this means Pilates is super easy, how can you possibly get a good challenge to your muscles with such a minute amount of repetitions?!!!” Not only do you do […]

Your head is so heavy!

The average human head clocks in at about 10 lbs and this is a lot for your poor little cervical spine to handle. Standing perfectly upright your spine will balance it out starting with your cervical spine (the part of your spine between your head and shoulders) curving slightly in one direction, your thoracic spine […]

Please listen to me, your mental health is directly tied to your physical health. Really!!!!

Exercise keeps the darkness away It is really hard to get people to understand or maybe admit that their brain is directly tied to their body. I keep running into this and it bothers me DEEPLY. I could totally science you all about how physical fitness vastly improves, everything really, but you already know that. […]

Help for my Service Industry Friends

This is an open letter to my service industry compatriots. I bet your body hurts, mine does too. We spend a lot of our time beating our bodies up taking care of the needs of others – literally serving our fellow man. Our career depends on our physical well being completely. Very few places offer […]

The Breeders – Unsung Heroes of 90s Rock

I saw the Breeders on Tuesday night in Buffalo and words can not describe all the feels that I had. So without further ado I’m going to try and use words to attempt to describe my indescribable experience. First off growing up in a very small very rural town (Williamson, NY) my exposure to live […]