Welcome Portland-Vancouver Fit members to 2010.
Congratulations to those returning and those who have just joined this year to get and stay fit. The medical care providers would like to help on your journey.
Every weekend both locations have tents with free 5 minute consultations and massage with medical staff. Clearwater Clinic volunteers at the PDX location include massage therapists, naturopaths, acupuncture and chiropractors. The Vancouver laoction will also have a mixture of medical professionals as well on Sunday for you.
Any aches and pains? We will be there to stretch and massage your sore muscles, analyze your gait, address injuries or answer questions regarding nutrition, health and conditioning needs.
Clearwater Clinic offers metabolic testing and VO2 testing at a discount to members who are interested in weight loss and higher perfomance. Metabolic testing provides complete body composition analysis of lean body mass, fat mass, basal metabolic rate (the calories you need to consume a day to stay looking exactly how you are looking without exercise); and it can indicate if you are keeping well hydrated, electrolyte and nutritionally balanced. VO2 testing, which determines your anaerobic threshold. This information is valuable in finding your heart rate zones for burning fat versus glucose, which is important if your exercise goals are weight loss or increasing performance time. Knowing your target heart rate zone can also help alleviate any concerns regarding injury or the ability to complete the marathon.
It is great to get a baseline pre-season with another at end of season to insure that your diet and nutrition is satisfactory for weight loss, prevention of oversuse injury and getting the results you want from training.
We want you to see the best results with your marathon training efforts so please post any medical questions on this discussion board and check out the volunteers onsite and we hope you have a great 2010 season.
Cheers to your health,
Dr. Bryan Baisinger & Clearwater Staff
