Redefining Strength Blog
Why Imbalances Are Worse Than Inflexibility – Our Top Injury Prevention Articles
Have you ever heard someone say, "I want to be able to touch my toes?" As if that was a very important thing to show their fitness and health. It is such an arbitrary sign of "flexibility" and isn't necessarily meaningful when it comes to preventing injuries or moving...
Strengthen And Tone Your Inner Thighs With These Workouts – 21 Inner Thigh Exercises
The inner thighs, or adductors, are a very interesting muscle group. They are an area of the body that almost every woman complains about. That most men don't care about (but they should!). But they are also an area of the body that anyone with knee, hip, low back or...
Strengthen Your Core With Standing Core Exercises – 20 Standing Core Exercises
Working your core doesn't have to mean getting down on the ground and doing planks, crunches or sit ups. There are actually a number of great core-intensive exercises you can do standing. And these Standing Core Exercises can be a great way to work your core in every...
Full-Body Foam Rolling Moves – The RAD Kit
I'm always looking for new tools and instruments to not only improve my personal health and wellness, but also improve the quality of training that I can provide for my clients. And if those tools come in a nice kit that clients can even get for their homes so that...
31 Push Up Variations – Intermediate and Advanced Variations
The Push Up is a must-do move even though most of us need to make sure we do extra pulling exercises because we sit hunched over a computer for 9 hours a day. So while you definitely need to include rows and pull ups and all sorts of pulling exercises in your...
10 Bodyweight Travel Exercises And A Quick Travel Workout
When you travel it can be hard to keep up with your workout routine. You may simply be busy, or relaxing or without access to your usual workout equipment. But that doesn’t have to mean you fall off your workout routine. While you can take time off on vacation, it can...
Why Can’t I Do A Pull Up? – Three Keys To Achieving That First Pull Up
Many of the clients that I work with come into the gym unable to do a Pull Up. And most have it as a main goal they would like to accomplish. Some clients may have never even really tried to achieve that first Pull Up, believing that there was no way they would be...
Functional Fitness – Barrel Training
Functional fitness is a term that is tossed around a lot these days. It gets used for about every new piece of equipment that comes out. But for something to really qualify as functional fitness it has to be something that translates to better movements in every day...
Perfecting The Plank and a Core Burn Out Workout
Planks are always a popular exercise. And with good reason. They are a great core exercise! The problem is...it has become a competition to hold a plank the longest. When how long you can hold a plank isn't near as important as your ability to properly engage and...
