Auburn, WA Health and Fitness

The professionals at Northwest Chiropractic Center work hard to improve health through services that include chiropractic, therapeutic massage, nutrition, and rehabilitative exercise. Drs. Lorri Nichols and Jolene Gagnon realign spines that fall out of line form workaday stress or doing the worm all the way to work. A small fleet of licensed massage therapists stimulates muscles with intensive deep-tissue massages to relieve pain and fortify overall health. Additionally, the docs at Northwest promote the Ideal Protein Weight Loss Method for improved health and energy reserves.

Dr. J. Bayard DuBois maintains a spa-like dentistry office characterized by heated massage treatment chairs, blankets, neck rolls, and reservoirs of warm, rejuvenating paraffin wax. As clients unwind and kick their feet up, DuBois and his staff perform a variety of general, restorative, and cosmetic dentistry services. Whether they're administering routine cleanings or investigating future issues, staff members supplement services with comprehensive advice on how to maintain smiles and business relationships with the tooth fairy.

Riverbend Golf Complex is a multifaceted training facility that fosters golf-game improvement from tee to green. Golfers hunt birdies and pars across the complex's 18-hole, 6,701-yard course or hone their approach technique with a round at the par-3 course, ideal for those seeking their first hole-in-one or still potty-training their pitching wedge. A 32-stall covered, lighted, and heated driving range helps golfers add new weapons to their on-course arsenal as they take aim at eight target greens spread out in the distance, and a five-member instructional staff of PGA and LPGA pros and apprentices offers a variety of lesson types to keep swings on track. For a more casual session, guests can putt through the tree-lined greens of Riverbend's 18-hole miniature-golf course. The complex also boasts a discount golf store where guests can replace golf clubs they broke while trying to pole-vault across a creek, with equipment from Adams, Bridgestone, Callaway, and other top brands.

Nationally certified personal trainer Luka Hocevar turned to fitness tutelage after 20 years of shooting hoops, which took him to the NBA Summer Pro League and Europe's premier basketball leagues. Since then, he has applied his exercise expertise to help fitness newbies and UFC, NBA, and NFL athletes alike whip into shape, making his way into the top five best personal trainers named by KING5 Best of Western Washington in 2010. He doesn’t just dive right in, though. After a friend revealed to him that “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care,” Hocevar has made a commitment to get to know his clients before building an expedited fitness program around their goals and needs.

Hocevar leads a diverse team of passionate, experienced trainers that includes a seasoned martial artist, a soccer player, and a kinesiologist. They motivate clients in both mind and body with customized exercise regimens during group personal training and athlete-performance training, a strength and conditioning program designed to enhance sport-specific movements and improve recovery time. The 4,600-square-foot facility brims with Olympic platforms, kettlebells, dumbbells, and strongman equipment, as well as functional implements to ensure that each workout is varied and challenging.

Vigor Ground Fitness and Performance also serves as home base for the award-winning Renton Results Boot Camp. Hocevar designed this results-driven program that mixes cardio and strength training with vigorous interval workouts to trim fat from physiques. To help students best burn fat, trainers constantly rotate drills to keep different muscles engaged, and nutritional manuals outline wholesome meal plans. With Bootcamps-to-Go media in the form of videos, mp3s, and self-destructing scrolls, students can continue to hone their flab-blasting moves at home. Hocevar also strives to make each boot-camp endeavor a personalized one, providing unlimited email support to all of his clients.

Lorraine Scott, CEO of MediPro Direct Slim, once felt that her body had been taken over by an alien—despite an active lifestyle and healthy eating patterns, she kept watching fat accumulate as it never had before. After her doctor advised her to "get over it," Lorraine decided to take matters into her own hands. Her team of experts researched the body's maze of glands and traffic-jam-prone nutrient-processing pathways to develop a weight-loss program based on whole foods and hormonal rebalance. Today, Lorraine's team of doctors guides customized weight-loss programs that draw on motivating, supportive communication to overcome mental and physical barriers to success.

During a desperate search for reprieve from the pain caused by a dance injury, professional dancer Lianne Gamble discovered the rehabilitating power of Pilates. A born teacher, she wanted to spread the good news, so she studied under Rael Isacowitz to earn certification in his strenuous Pilates program, Body Arts and Science International (BASI), which folds anatomy and physiology into traditional Pilates exercises.

Now, she and a team of certified instructors—among them a gymnast, several dancers, and a marketer—reshape the waistlines of Gig Harbor residents through Pilates, power yoga, and body barre classes. Focusing on BASI’s scientific approach and proper breathing techniques, they pump up mind-body connections and core strength using state-of-the-art Power Plate machines, reformers, Decepticons that transform into chiropractors, and spine correctors from Balanced Body and Peak Pilates.