Step-ups are a great way to challenge muscles throughout your entire body, and to challenge your balance at the same time. When done the way I show you in this video, you will also improve your posture.
Said another way, step-ups are a fantastic whole-body exercise to build strength, cardio, and alignment. You might think you know how to do step-ups, and you might even think they’re “easy” — but give this version a shot and I think you’ll change your mind.…
This shoulder workout consists of exactly one exercise — the sitting floor arm glide. This movement strengthens the muscles of your back that hold your shoulders in an upright position, while also taking your shoulders through a full range of motion. At the same time, the exercise strengthens your lower body and levels your hips.
In a perfect world, your shoulders should be able to perform the entire arm glide movement, but due to our modern lifestyles (and the resultant bad posture) our shoulders have become stiff and immobile.…
The exercise I’m teaching you today is known as “sitting floor.” This exercise strengthens the muscles of your back that hold your shoulders in an upright position. It also strengthens your lower body and levels your hips.
While this exercise may look easy, you’ll be surprised how hard it can feel in practice. Being up next to the wall prevents your body from using compensating muscles and helps us focus on the muscles we do want to work.…
This simple and effective exercise hits those hard-to-reach muscles of the hips and thighs and can be done anywhere and anytime.
The muscles of the inner and outer thigh can become hard to reach because of how inactive they become after years of sitting and not moving enough. Keep in mind, even if you are an athlete, there are still tasks in your life that involve sitting, such as attending school and driving your car.…
If five minutes is all you can spare for exercising, then this is the workout for you. This workout will strength train your whole body and get your heart rate up, while also improving your posture.
Speaking of which: have you ever looked down at your feet and noticed that they turn out to the sides instead of pointing straight ahead?…
Who doesn’t like an exercise that has a lot of bang for the buck? In our busy lives, it’s nice to have things that can multitask like we do. This exercise will build upper-body strength and create definition in your arms, shoulders, and upper back. It’s also a fabulous stretch for your whole body.
And the biggest perk to this move — there’s no equipment required!…
In your average work day, do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
Do you deal with chronic low back pain when sitting at your desk at work?
Sitting for long periods is like hitting the off switch for the muscles of your hips, and causes a break in communication from your hips to your feet. Your hips and feet no longer function as the base of support to the lower back, causing your lower back to do a lot of the work when you go about your day-to-day activities.…
Are you bored with your workouts? Or plateaued? Or short on time? Change things up with this quick, satisfying, and effective routine.
Get back to the basics for a total body workout that even improves your posture!
The Boredom Buster WorkoutComplete 3 rounds of the following:
1. Push-ups – 10 reps
Are you dealing with chronic upper back tension? Here are two exercises to help you that are easy to do at home. Doing these will ease that upper back tension and correct the chronic position of a rounded upper back and shoulders.
Static Back Reverse PressesInstructions:
What is the one piece of exercise equipment everybody should own?
It’s lightweight, inexpensive, easy to store, and you can take it along when traveling to get a killer workout.
What is it? A jump rope!
That said, sometimes it’s not as easy to pick up the jump rope as it was when you were a kid. But don’t worry, it’s like riding a bike — it will come back to you.…
This exercise — known as “static wall” — can help reduce tension and pain in the upper back, neck, and shoulders. Often pain and tension in these areas can be attributed to poor posture where the upper back rounds forward and the muscles of the hips and legs become tight from sitting.
This exercise works by allowing your upper back to straighten out against the flat surface of the floor while stretching and strengthening muscles of the hips and legs.…
