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4 Tips For Avoiding The Dreaded Menopausal Weight Gain
Say goodbye to your youthful body. Weight gain is inevitable. Bye bye abs. Your life is over - you’ve hit MENOPAUSE! It’s undeniable…your body is going to change with menopause. But this doesn’t have to mean the end of your aesthetic goals. It doesn’t have to mean...
Exercises For Hip Pain RELIEF (5 Daily Hip Pain Moves)
Unfortunately hip pain is an all too common complaint. And the best rehab is prehab - preventing those injuries before they really build up by recognizing and addressing those “minor” aches and pains. Too often we simply try to push through a sore hip. We accept a...
STOP Torturing Your Rotator Cuff (Do This Instead)
Rotator cuff injuries are all too common. And often when a muscle gets injured we blame it for being weak. So in our attempts to recovery we include a ton of moves to work and strengthen those muscles. But what if this extra strengthening work is actually holding you...
How To Do A Sit Up Properly – 3 Tips To Help
Sit ups get a bad rap because of the spinal flexion involved in the movement. But guess what? Our abs are worked by spinal flexion. Yes they work to stabilize and prevent extension and brace to protect our spine, which is why planks are key too, but they do power...
3 Fat Loss Myths Holding You Back
The simple fact is, one size doesn’t fit all. And so many things can work for so many different reasons. And ultimately what leads to our success, especially when it comes to fat loss, is something that we can do consistently LONG-TERM. Even then, the exact diet or...
The Most UNDERRATED Dumbbell Upper Body Exercise
I feel like there are always moves that sort of get “forgotten.” They fall out of popularity or get hated on because of one specific issue, or don’t seem “hard enough” and then people stop using them. Even when they’re crazy amazing and beneficial. One such move is...
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Don’t Ignore This Nasty Little Sucker – The TFL or Tensor Fasciae Latae
This one muscle causes more issues than we often realize. But because the pain and issues it often causes are "elsewhere," we often don't realize this nasty little culprit... Ok...while no muscle is really "nasty" or "evil," it is important we recognize the different...
15 Moves To Improve Your Shoulder And Scapular Mobility And Stability
Often one of the first "warning signs" of potential injury can be immobility...especially when you notice a lack of mobility only during specific movements or on one SIDE of your body. Neck pain? Shoulder pain? Upper back aches and pains? Heck..even wrist and elbow...
Do You Have Dead Butt Syndrome!?!
Ok…So your butt is not technically “dead” but Dead Butt Syndrome is a very common name for an all too common problem - underactive glutes! So what does “dead butt” and “underactive glutes” mean? Dead Butt Syndrome is when your glutes aren’t firing as efficiently or...
How To Make Dieting Suck Less – 5 Tips and Tricks
We hear all the time... "It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle!" But let's face it...With anything where we can't just do whatever we want, whenever we want, we are going to have some "slip ups." We are going to wake up late because we accidentally turned off our alarm....
15 Moves To Improve Your Hip Mobility
Mobility is not the same as flexibility. Nor is it the same as stability. But for true mobility, you need both a certain amount of stability and flexibility of the muscles around the joint. Heck, you even need a certain amount of distal stability and mobility in order...
Relieve Your Low Back And Hip Pain With These Moves
Low back and hip pain are common problems especially for anyone with a desk job. However, some foam rolling (or a back massage) and stretching of your low back won't be enough to really relieve your pain. Because sometimes where you feel the pain, isn't the place...