Redefining Strength Blog
Fitness And The Fast Approaching Holiday Season – 10 Tips To Help You Stay On Track This Holiday Season
With the holiday season fast approaching, there is no time like the present to get your fitness routine in line. You may be getting busier. There may be parties and temptations and excuses to slack on your healthy eating and workout routine. You may even think to...
A Basic Bodyweight Cardio Move – 15 Jumping Jack Variations
The Jumping Jack is one of those basic bodyweight gym class moves that many of us forget about in search of the new best thing to help us burn fat and get our sweat on at home. We skip the Jumping Jack in favor of soul crushing Burpees or Squat Jumps or some other...
Prevent and Alleviate Upper Body Aches And Pains – 11 Upper Body Foam Rolling Moves
The first step in preventing and alleviating upper body aches and pains is to relax tight muscles to help start correcting imbalances and restore normal muscle length-tension relationships. That means you must foam roll. Foam rolling can help you relax tight muscles...
15 Unconventional Core Exercises
Often we don't realize how much our core actually works when we do our basic exercises. We instead think we need to do more crunches or sit ups to specifically target our cores instead of focusing on movements that work more muscle groups at once. And while including...
Why You Need To Include Anti-Rotational Exercises In Your Workouts
A good workout program should make you move in every direction - forward, backward, sideways and even rotationally. We need to be strong in every plane of motion to help us prevent injury when moving in everyday life. But sometimes strengthening ourselves so we can...
Target Those Glutes – 15 Bodyweight Glute Exercises
All over the internet Squats are promoted as a great booty building exercise. You see "She Squats" or "I Squat" or simply booty shorts with "Squat" everywhere. But Squats aren't the best or only glute exercise out there that you should be doing. (Actually the...
The Push Up Vs. The Dip – Vertical and Horizontal Pressing Exercises
Bodyweight exercises can be a great way to work your chest, shoulders and triceps as well as your core. And two of the best bodyweight exercises you can do to work your chest, shoulder, triceps and your core are the Push Up and the Dip. While both pressing moves may...
Activation Exercises – Building the Mind-Body Connection to Avoid Pain and Get Stronger
I'm constantly asking clients during sessions, "Where do you feel this?" "What do you feel working?" I ask these questions for a couple of different reasons. One, I want them to focus on the correct muscles activating and working to make sure they are getting the most...
Working Out With The Med Ball – 18 Med Ball Exercises
The Med Ball is a great piece of equipment that you can use to work on your power as well as your aerobic endurance. It is also a great way to get in a full-body, core-intensive workout. However, unlike when you lift and you constantly want to be challenging...
