Insights and tips on exercise and physical activity recommendations to help you move well, and live well
Have you ever looked at a baby and watched them breathe? They don’t raise their chest up and down over and over again. It’s their tiny little bellies that move the most. They use their diaphragm! If we are born using our diaphragm why is it that so many of us struggle to use it…
This is easy, just don’t do it. We are meant to be active. Sitting promotes laziness and low energy. Standing activates more muscles therefore stimulating more of your brain. Many of us have symptoms of ‘dead butt’. This is when our glutes turn off due to lack of stimulation. The lack of glutes can lead…
If you can stand on one foot without touching the ground for 2 minutes, congratulations you are normal! Now I challenge you to attempt standing on 1 leg barefoot, but this time close your eyes. (Make sure something stable is around to grab onto just in case you get wobbly.) Can you make it to…
When is the last time you heard someone say the phrase “Grow some pecs”? I really hope your answer is never. “Grow some backbone!” Now that is something we have all heard before. Our back is the foundation that so much of our body is built. Our back bone surrounds our spinal cord. For protecting…
So you’re in the gym working out pumping that iron then you stop to check yourself out in the mirror and think “why am I not getting any bigger?” First of all, what are you doing staring at the mirror at the gym anyways? The mirrors in the gym aren’t for checking yourself out. You…
“Sit up straight. Don’t slouch. Stand up straight. Chin up and shoulders back.” We have all heard this over and over again throughout our lifetime from parents, teachers, coaches, and grandparents. Did you really listen though? Or did you correct it for 2 seconds while they were looking at you and then slowly settle back…
Sit-ups are a staple of many ab workouts. I remember doing sit-ups in gym class for the Presidential Fitness Test. To get the Presidential award you had to do so many pushups, pull ups, sit-ups, and the sit and reach. Do they still do this test? I enjoyed every part of the test except the…
We are born to move! So then why do we spend so much of our day sitting? Growing up and even now, sitting still for too long of a time seems boring to me. The worst thing I could ever say to my mom was the good old “I’m bored!!” I think secretly she liked…
Yes, you read that right. I said No to Stretching! Before anyone gets in an uproar, allow me to explain. First off, I’m not against stretching in all instances. What I am against is stretching when, in fact, it’s strengthening that you need to be doing. Stretching is what most of us do in response…