Train for Life

Category: Daily Workout

  • What Is Isokinetic Training?

    Our exercise sessions typically involve isotonic and isometric muscle actions.  During an isotonic muscle action, the agonist (prime mover) contracts (or shortens) as the antagonist relaxes (or lengthens).  For example, when you bend your arm, the Biceps Brachii shortens and the Triceps Brachii lengthens.  During an isometric muscle action,  there is no visible change in muscle…

  • Simplify Your Fitness and Try a HIIT Work Out Today!

    Many of us have busy lives, which often allows little time to exercise.  The solution? High Intensity Interval Training, or “HIIT.”  HIIT enables you to work out for less time and receive better results.  This heart-pumping, vigorous type of training features short, intense cardiovascular exercises designed to enhance athletic performance and overall health and fitness levels. To begin a HIIT…

  • A Summer Challenge for Your Core!

    Here is a core challenge that can be performed anywhere, anytime, and all you need is YOU! The Plank is a very effective isometric exercise for strengthening your entire core musculature, including local and global stabilization systems.  Without  repetitively flexing and extending your back (common in many traditional abdominal exercises), the Plank places less stress on your…

  • Try a HIIT Work Out Today!

    Here’s why! With Interval Training, you are able to work harder and burn more calories in a shorter period of time. Less time spent at the gym and more calories expended? Sounds like a plan! Interval Training begins at Stage II of the three total stages of  Cardiorespiratory Training (also referred to as Zone II Lactate Threshold).…

  • Happy 4th of July!

    How will you be active on 4th of July? Yes, you can party and celebrate our country’s independence… But first, raise a glass dumbbell to good health! Please share your favorite ways to exercise or just move! Here is a 4th of July work out to try:    

  • A Quick, Simple Circuit to Start Your Weekend Right!

    It’s time to get out of bed sleepy head, slip on your tennis shoes, and get moving! You will feel great and your body and mind will thank you! Jog in place  –  2 minutes Side lunges  –  1 minute Run in place (high knees)  –  1 minute Push-ups  –  1 minute Jumping jacks  –  1…

  • Spin Your Way to Good Health!

    Try a Spin Class Today!  Just Go For It! Need more inspiration? Watch this short video now!

  • No More Rounded Shoulders – It’s Time to Improve Your Posture!

    Upper Crossed Syndrome is characterized by rounding one’s shoulders and drawing his/her head forward, which creates increased cervical extension and scapular protraction and elevation (pulling apart and raising one’s shoulders).  With the rise in technology, this syndrome is becoming increasingly common in today’s workplace.  The longer an individual sits at a desk in front of a…

  • A Quick Work Out to Add to Your Weekend Routine!

    Think You Don’t Have Any Time to Exercise this Weekend? Think Wrong!   Here is a quick, high intensity circuit to do in 10 minutes or less! 12 simple exercises and the only required tools are a chair, wall, and YOU! There are NO excuses!  Be Active! Be Healthy! Be YOU!

  • A Circuit Training Work Out to Try this Week!

    Circuit train your way to a hot new bod! Circuit training, a type of cardiorespiratory training, improves fitness levels without spending long hours at the gym.  In addition, research has shown that circuit training increases post-exercise metabolic rates and strength levels.  A circuit training program is very time-efficient and consists of a sequence of strength-training…