Redefining Strength Blog
The Peanut – Alleviate back pain with this simple trigger point tool!
If you suffer from back, hip or SI joint pain (aka if you sit at a desk all day!), then you need to make yourself a peanut. The peanut is a simple, CHEAP homemade tool you can make in like five minutes and it will alleviate a ton of your desk job aches and pains....
10 Rotational Exercises – Do your workouts make you move in every direction?
In every day life, we move forward and backward. We move side to side. We move up and down. We rotate. We move in EVERY DIRECTION. Yet all too often our workouts don't force us to move in all the different planes of motion. And how functional is it really to train...
10 HANGING Core Exercises
Crunches, planks and sit ups are usually our go to core exercises. And all of them are core moves done on the ground. BUT some of the best core moves can actually be done hanging from a pull up bar. Want to blast those lower abs and work your back and lower body at...
The Dip – A Vertical Push Exercise
When we think of pushing exercises we often turn to the push up or the bench press. But dips and even overhead presses are also great PUSH exercises. However, unlike the bench press or push up, which are HORIZONTAL push exercises, they are VERTICAL PUSH EXERCISES....
Crawling – A Full Body Cardio Exercise
Crawling – Once we learned how to walk, we thought we would never go back. We’d found a much easier more efficient way to get around and we could run, which got us places faster. So why on earth would we go back to crawling?!? Because it is a great full body cardio...
Homemade Workout Equipment – Slosh Pipes
You don't have to buy a ton of fancy exercise equipment to get in a great workout at home. Actually you can use a ton of things you already have around the house and even make a few simple, cheap pieces of equipment and have everything you need to get in a great home...
Unilateral Leg Exercises – The Airborne Lunge and Regressions
Unilateral exercises are a great way to prevent and correct imbalances. They force each leg, each side, to work independently so that the dominant side can't take over. They also require less, and in many cases no weight, to be challenging so that you can do them at...
10 Knee-Friendly Lower Body Exercises
Often people think they can't workout their legs when they have knee pain. And while you don't just want to jump into a lower body strength routine if you aren't sure what is going on with your knees, there are knee-friendly lower body exercises you can do once you've...
Improve Your Quality of Life: “Middle age does not mean chubby and unhappy!”
Eating well and exercising, living a healthy lifestyle, is about more than losing weight and looking great. It is about more than performing well on the athletic field, running faster or lifting more weight. It is about IMPROVING YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE. Here is...
