Jess Miller, Fitness & Nutrition

Jess Miller, Fitness & Nutrition Jessica Miller owns Action Potential, an innovative boutique fitness studio in Camino, CA, offering personal, small group, and online fitness programming.

Jessica Miller, one of the top-rated El Dorado County fitness professionals, provides both in-person and online individual and small group fitness training services. Specialties include HIIT, women's fitness, nutrition, injury recovery and prevention, mobility, and flexibility. Services are by appointment only or following our small group training schedule found on the website.

09/15/2026

I have a problem with gratitude when it starts sounding like “just focus on the positive.”

Yeah…no. This is not how our own human emotion works.

You can be fantastically grateful for your life and still be pi**ed off about parts of it. You can appreciate what you have and want something to change. That doesn’t have to make you ungrateful. And, sometimes…Things. Just. Suck. We don’t need to stamp the word “gratitude” over them and pretend otherwise.

I’d argue gratitude means more when it’s honest. I believe it is being able to say, “This is really freaking hard right now, but it’s not all that’s here.”

What’s good in your life right now, even if everything isn’t?

09/12/2026

So what? I increased the surface area.

Cold CAN be useful when something hurts. But, probably not like this.

Applying cold to a sore or irritated area lowers local tissue temperature and can temporarily slow sensory nerve conduction. That can increase pain threshold and decrease how strongly pain is PERCEIVED.

That’s an important distinction. Feeling better after icing does NOT necessarily mean the tissue has healed faster or that we have effectively “shut down inflammation.” It means we have changed the way the nervous system is processing the painful stimulus.

For all intents and purposes, localized cold can be a useful tool for short-term symptom management when something on our body is sore or irritated.

I simply chose a…slightly more…comprehensive application method.

CITATIONS

Algafly, A. A., & George, K. P. (2007). The effect of cryotherapy on nerve conduction velocity, pain threshold and pain tolerance. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 41(6), 365–369. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.2006.031237

Herrera, E., Sandoval, M. C., Camargo, D. M., & Salvini, T. F. (2010). Motor and sensory nerve conduction are affected differently by ice pack, ice massage, and cold water immersion. Physical Therapy, 90(4), 581–591. https://doi.org/10.2522/ptj.2009013

Address

Camino, CA
95709

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 6pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 6pm
Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 8am - 11am

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Jess Miller, Fitness & Nutrition posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Jess Miller, Fitness & Nutrition:

Shortcuts

Share

Category