Welcome to the Month of Love! | February at PowerPlay, a Gym for Women in SF

PowerPlaySF is a gym in SF dedicated to We’re in the month of love! At PowerPlaySF this month, we’re dedicating a whole week towards love and you know that our favorite way to express love is towards our bodies and each other.

This month, we also want to highlight the organ in our bodies that is responsible for this thing called love. We’ll be focusing on how to care for our physical and emotional heart. Keep reading to see how.

Keep Your Heart Pumping: Exercise Essentials

Physical activity is key for a healthy heart!  A mix of different exercise types offers the most benefit.

1. Aerobic Exercise improves circulation, lowers blood pressure/heart rate, and helps manage blood sugar. You’re typically advised to do this for about 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week. And the good news is that by being a member of Powerplay, you get to check this off your list at least once a week with conditioning sets during your sessions. During other days of the week, you can engage in brisk walking, running, swimming or cycling.
2. Resistance Training reduces body fat, builds muscle, and improves cholesterol. The recommendation for this is about 2 non-consecutive days a week. And your Lift & Flex sessions and Pilates sessions got you covered here. If you find yourself traveling, here are examples of resistance training exercises you can look for: Weights, machines, resistance bands, push-ups.
3. Flexibility & Balance supports musculoskeletal health, preventing injuries and enabling other exercises. It is advised to do this daily. While you’re not at PowerPlay 7 days a week, we do share mobility workouts on Instagram every Thursday. So, we got you in and out of the studio 🙂

Emotional Heart Health: It’s All Connected

Your heart and brain are closely linked. 

Emotional well-being significantly impacts heart health, even if you don’t have existing heart disease. Let’s explore what that looks like.

While some stress (eustress) is helpful, excessive stress (distress) can harm your heart, especially if you have coronary artery disease. Strong emotions like anger can even trigger dangerous heart rhythms. Even without heart disease, stress, anxiety, and depression increase the risk of heart-related problems.

Improving Emotional Heart Health

1. Professional Help: Don’t ignore overwhelming stress, anxiety, depression, or anger. Seek professional help for diagnosis and treatment.
2. Therapies: Explore options like stress management, biofeedback, counseling, relaxation techniques, and newer therapies like acceptance and commitment therapy and expressive writing.
3. Exercise: Aerobic exercise is “brain food,” improving mental agility, thinking speed, and mood. It can reduce anxiety and depression while boosting self-esteem.
4. Gather with community: We’re not made to do life alone and so gathering with loved ones whether family, friends, coworkers, has beautiful effects on our heart

What We Have For You During The Week of Love

To create space for you to practice how to engage your heart physically and emotionally, we have a full list of session offerings for you to choose from.

Also, what better way for PowerPlay to show some love than to offer complimentary DANCE workouts for our members? On Thursday 13th of February, we’re hosting 2 dance sessions to get some cardio and stretches in here at PowerPlay gym in SF.

As a member, you can use your monthly pass towards this session. And it’s open to women in all life stages- of course, we’ll tailor particular moves if you’re pre/postnatal 🙂

We hope to see you through out the week at our gym in SF. And we would love to see you share the PowerPlay love by inviting a partner or a friend so that we can practice loving our physical hearts through exercise and our emotion hearts through engaging with community.

PS: You can invite your partners and friends to all sessions except:

• Monday 2/10 @ 5 PM
• Friday 2/14 @ 10 AM
• Saturday 2/15 @ 10 AM

The button will open a link to Foundations so that we can get offer them a complimentary fitness consultation before the session 🙂

Invite Partners and Friends for Week Of Love

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