by Karen G Clemenson | Jan 20, 2021 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. Today we are going to have some fun. Are you ready? Jamie Holloway, my good friend, has sponsored this video and it is a video about using a Stability Ball for a Ball Works Out. Today we are going to go over a few...
by Karen G Clemenson | Jan 11, 2021 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. You’ve done it now! You have told people you are going to workout at home. Then people ask you every now and then, if you have started working out at home, and of course they ask you very loudly. Of course your answer is...
by Karen G Clemenson | Jan 8, 2021 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. You know sometimes you get a song in your head and you can’t stop singing and it starts to bug you after awhile? People are trying to talk to you and you are still singing? That happens to me a lot. The brain is...
by Karen G Clemenson | Jan 4, 2021 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! We here at Wellness Works NW have been really excited about the New Year, but today I want to talk to you about COVID-19. I want to talk about people who have had this nasty virus and who are fighting it. There is a...
by Karen G Clemenson | Jan 1, 2021 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. Happy New Year! We are going to have fun in ’21! That is right! We are so ready. It is all about mindset and I am so pumped for this new year! How about you? The holidays are over here so we are ready. Get ready, get set...
by Karen G Clemenson | Dec 30, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. I love this time of year! We get all excited, we’ve got presents to get, gotta wrap presents, should we do it online…so much is going on! Now we are at the point that we don’t know what to do. We got all wound up so...
by Karen G Clemenson | Dec 7, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! Safety Starts Here and what I find out there. I have some clients out there that are saying: Forget it! Give me a cake! I’ll see you in 20 (hiccup) 21!…And then I have some clients that say they are definitely not...
by Karen G Clemenson | Dec 4, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. Normally I say, Howdy! I can get away with that because I am from North Carolina. Another person who is from the south is Dolly Parton. Some people laugh when they hear her name but she is wonderful. She has written songs...
by Karen G Clemenson | Dec 2, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. Someone asked me the other day why I would want to be a Personal Trainer. I said, “Are you kidding? I’ve been training all of my life. When I was in the military we were training and we were preparing to go to the...
by Karen G Clemenson | Nov 27, 2020 | Fitness, Men's Health, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. It is getting kind of cold, isn’t it? It is coming into the time of the year that we start thinking about our health because we are having a good time and we are going to enjoy things like Thanksgiving and Christmas...
by Wellness Works NW | Nov 25, 2020 | Fitness, Mental Health, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! Remember when we were kids in school and we would outline our hands on a piece of construction paper and the next thing you know we had a turkey. So I am not much of an artist but the thing is, it made you happy. It...
by Karen G Clemenson | Nov 23, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. I think somebody out there is thinking about Goal Setting! Well, sure they are. How do you set a goal. You see people that are so goal oriented, especially as we get to the end of the year, and they are thinking this is...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 19, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health
Having an eating disorder is a real issue and so is having type 1 diabetes, what if you had both? What if you developed an eating disorder while taking care of your type 1 diabetes? This eating disorder is called Diabulimia. Although it is not recognized in the mental...
by Karen G Clemenson | Nov 18, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. How you doing out there? It’s that time of year when it is beginning to get a little cold and a little wet here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Don’t let that get you down. That rain out there is just liquid...
by Wellness Works NW | Nov 15, 2020 | News
Starting Tuesday November 17, 2020 at 12:01 am, according to the recent Stay Safe – Stay Healthy Proclamation of Governor Inslee all gyms must be closed until Tuesday December 14, 2020. >>>Download a copy of the proclamation >>>Visit the...
by Karen G Clemenson | Oct 31, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW! I am like that scary movie! LOL! I love movies! Something as simple as breathing is amazing. We do it involuntarily. How many times do people remind you to breathe? Well for some people its not that easy. Our friend,...
by Karen G Clemenson | Oct 31, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. How are you doing? You know sometimes when you ask someone who lives with chronic illness, how they are doing, they answer, “Oh. Fine. Great.” And often times they aren’t. For this of you who are friends who are chronically...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 28, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! Its Karen from Wellness Works NW. I find that this is the time of the year that I get new clients and I ask them if they have had any blood work done, like checking your A1C or Cholesterol? And they say, “No,” or “I did back in 1985 and it was fine.” ...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 27, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hi Everybody! It’s Karen with Wellness Works NW. The seasons have changed and the air is different. Feeling good, huh! Until you go to do something and you feel this pain. It stops your whole world. You were getting ready to get into your car and the pain is all you...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 23, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hi Everybody. It’s Karen from Wellness Works NW and I want to welcome you to Autumn…or Fall…I can’t remember which one; let’s just call it Autumn. I like it when the seasons change and the colors change and speaking of speaking of seasons, as we start to get older we...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 23, 2020 | Fuel Your Wellness, Mental Health
We hear the word mindful so often, it is almost a constant reminder, but what is Mindfulness? Being mindful is a verb that describes a practice of paying attention to what is happening now. Being mindful is something that is naturally part of ourselves, whether we...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 22, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
September is Cholesterol Education Awareness Month. There is so much misinformation about cholesterol floating around. The truth is cholesterol has an important role in the body. Cholesterol is needed for three main things in the body. These are: Production for of sex...