by Cori Lefkowith | Sep 25, 2014 | Blog, Exercises, Travel Workouts
It is always great to have exercise equipment that you can use anywhere – whether you are traveling or simply want to get in a quick workout at home.
Especially equipment that can add resistance and be used to make moves more challenging.
Because often when we travel or workout at home, we struggle to find ways to advance movements and “add weight” or resistance unless we have access to a hotel gym or home set of weights.
That is why pieces like the CoreX RipFit Trainer are so great to have as part of our home/travel gym. They are easily storable and don’t weigh much, but can be used to add resistance to exercises and make them more challenging when we don’t have weights available.
Plus the RipFit Trainer combines resistance band and mini bands, which means that not only can you add resistance to compound movements, but you can also do all the glute activation moves we love!
If you are looking for some great new moves to include in your home and travel workouts, check out these 20 Exercises Using The RipFit Trainer.
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by Cori Lefkowith | May 21, 2014 | Blog, Butt, Exercises
When you sit all day at a desk, your body is constantly in flexion, which leads to injury.
The 5 bridge exercises below are the opposite of what you do all day and, when paired with a proper trigger point release program, can help you prevent and alleviate injury.
See the 5 Bridge Variations in the video below!
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by Cori Lefkowith | Aug 11, 2013 | Butt, Warm Up
The glutes…
It is a muscle group that many of us want to work on for…well…aesthetic reasons. Whether we want to make it bigger or smaller, rounder or firmer, most of us want to change it.
It is also a muscle group that most of us SHOULD be giving more attention and love to because it isn’t firing as efficiently or effectively as it should be!
When our glutes are underactive, we may not be getting the full benefit of all of those squats and deadlifts and lunges we are doing!
Ever noticed your quads seem to grow but your glutes don’t change?
Or maybe you’ve noticed that you all too often only feel your lower back and hamstrings working NOT your glutes?
When our glutes aren’t firing efficiently, we recruit other muscles to carry the load. Not only does this mean we aren’t actually WORKING our glutes as well as we could be…so all of those moves we are TRYING to do to change them aren’t going to pay off, but we also increase our risk of injury because other muscles, that really can’t handle the load, take over.
That is why it is so important to get your glutes activated and firing BEFORE your lifting session, runs or rides!
Here are 10 Mini Band Moves to get your glutes activated and help you build a better, stronger!, butt. These moves will work your butt from every angle to get your glute maximus and glute medius working especially!
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