All in Healthy Strength Training
Strength training is a key part of staying healthy as you age. By preserving your muscle mass, boosting your metabolism, and offering a range of other benefits, it helps you stay vibrant and active for years to come. Here's the basics of getting started or making your existing routine more effective.
Hybrid fitness combines different exercise styles and methodologies to create a more comprehensive approach to fitness. Here's what hybrid training looks like and all the ways it can benefit you during your body transformation and lifelong fitness journey.
Should I try Pilates or Yoga? They both work core and total body, so they’re both pretty much the same right? I’ve been asked this a lot in the past two decades of training and on the surface it does seem that Pilates and yoga are the same but the differences will amaze you. Here’s what you need to know with exercise comparisons as well as body goal outcomes.
FitRIGS are all the rage right now. Every health club and private gym ready for a refresh is installing one. I’ve been told by clients and students that they look intimidating which is completely understandable. The great news is they’re for everyone and here are a few FitRIG functional training options that work for ALL levels.
The water is a great place to get an amazing workout even if you’re not the best swimmer. There is even one type of water workout that may be the best for 100% of people wanting to improve cardio, strength, flexibility, and health. Here’s 3 tips to help you get started plus a bonus tip that will help you avoid foot issues.
Somebody asked me if I use a similar plan with all my clients. In theory yes but in implementation NO way! Would the same plan work for a 60 year old with scoliosis and a 25 year old stressed out finance student and an 82 year old diabetic with 4 toe amputations and a 58 year old with the genetics of a Viking warrior goddess? What it means to personal train clients is
Remember one of the first workout apps back in 2008 called Nike Training Club? It was new and cool BUT it actually took over a decade for app developers to figure out what fitness pros needed out of workout apps and now the fitness app market is booming! So as with most fitness tools, some apps just get better results than others. Here’s the top 3 features to consider and a 7 day free trial of our new workout app.
There are countless quick fix solutions that can help you lose weight and fat fast but those types of results rarely last. So how do you expedite your body transformation in a way that is healthy and sustainable? Is this even possible? It is when you focus on these 3 training variables.
There are times when it gets to be a bit much trying to fit a lot of activity into your week. So let’s realistically break it down and schedule a dream fitness week and then a more realistic week of activity. This is the sensible advice that comes into play once you’re maintaining a very fit active healthy lifestyle and wondering how to keep it balanced!
Are you a crack of dawn exercise junkie? Then you’ll love this lakeside sunrise circuit but even if you are a late exercisers like me you can do this morning bodyweight workout any time, any place, for any length of time. It includes mobility, strength, endurance and core work along with an optional rope flow.
Need to improve core and glute activation for a stronger body with simple exercises that deliver better results in less time? Here are 7 power moves I do with ALL my clients whether they’re 25 or 75. These are the key movement patterns that work to get you that fit, healthy body you’re after. Best part is you can do them anywhere with all types of fitness gear.
The percentage of adults with back pain increases considerably with age from 28.4% for those aged 18–29 to 44.3% for those aged 45–64. In addition women are more likely than men to experience back pain. So aging and being female increase your likelihood of back pain which is why a strong back routine is essential. Here is a fairly simple healthy back routine that is focused on 1. Releasing 2. Activating and 3. Strengthening.
The great thing about the suspension trainer it can target all 9 fitness components in one workout. It also forces you to focus on what your core is doing every minute because if you fail to engage the core even a basic incline bodyweight row can land you on the ground hard. Here’s a quick routine that will have you training like the pros in no time! There’s just one tiny catch…
A good functional movement assessment is essential for creating sound fitness plans that improve your health and fitness. Here’s how to do one of the more known functional movement assessments yourself plus my new youtube video with 7 corrective exercises that fix the most common movement issues that I see when I do functional movement assessments on clients.
Many people train glutes for aesthetic reasons but there are many important health reasons to focus on hard butt workouts that go beyond a better looking butt. Some of the reasons will surprise you and others may completely alter your workout plan for better fitness results. Here’s why we need better butt work more often and 5 moves to get you started.
You want a stronger butt so you can do those epic hikes without pain, perform better in your favorite sports and activities or just do basic household chores or yard work without losing your balance, falling down and smashing your face on a hard table or a cactus? ( true client storeis). Just add these quick glute activation exercises to your warm up for stronger butt workout results and follow the simple lifestyle tips for even stronger glutes!
If you want to get in and out of the gym in 30 minutes while burning the max amount of fat and calories, building functional strength, improving endurance, core stability, posture and muscle tone then THIS gym supersets workout is perfect for you. Quick slideshow shows you how to.
The 34 mat Pilates exercises from Joseph Pilates book Return to Life with Contrology are great for building strength, improving posture, core stability and overall fitness. But even just a handful of the 34 series can be incredibly effective for all your health and fitness goals. Get started with these 6 moves and options from my new video quick pilates for strength and posture.
We all need simple indoor outdoor workout options for variety or out of necessity. Here are 14 moves you can combine into 5 options for countless benefits. In fact you could combine these 14 moves into countless workouts too but that’s a whole other post, Be sure to check out the exercises slideshow and exercise comparisons after the videos too.
Is there really a difference between indoors and outdoors workouts beyond just the machines vs the trees, boulders and playground equipment? In this workout video we compare two functional strength training routines with the exact same movement patterns (squat, lunge, press, pull, bend, twist, and cardio intervals) to find the real differences between training outdoors vs training indoors.
