Train for Life

Category: Tips to Stay Active and Keep Moving

  • Happy Caturday 🐱

    🐱🐶Feel-Great Update for Pet Parents, Cats and Dogs Alike!🐶🐱 We are already aware that our fur babies improve our lives! Now, new research proves it! In a study published in Social Indicators Research, participants answered survey questions about their personality traits, health, income, life satisfaction, and pet ownership. The result? Owning a cat or dog significantly…

  • Mindful Monday

    Mindful Monday

    How to use your body to soothe your mind. Calm Practice 🫨Somatic Shaking 🫨 When we experience a shock, upset or trauma, one of the body’s natural responses is to shake. This motion can help release energy, which ‘completes’ the stress response and regulates the nervous system. Intentional shaking can dissolve stress and move the nervous…

  • Fun Fit Friday

  • Twelfth Day of Stretchmas

    Stretching Tips: Part 2 Strength before bendiness Combine gentle stretches with strength work, especially if your are hypermobile. Strength and flexibility together can make for “powerful weapons” against anxiety.            Reference   Reference Williams, C. (2021). Move: How the new science of body movement can set your mind free. Toronto, Ontario,…

  • Eleventh Day of Stretchmas

    Stretching Tips: Part 1 Pandiculate After an extended period of sitting, stand up and stretch your arms and legs. It reminds your brain that you have limbs as well as relaxing tight muscles. Aim for at least once every hour (if not more). Move, stretch, twist to release the fascia around the muscles and organs, and…

  • Tenth Day of Stretchmas

    Plank Hip Extension Regression: Place elbows on elevated surface such as, a bench or couch Progression: Increase time to 45 seconds each side Hold for 30 seconds each side, 3 times  

  • Ninth Day of Stretchmas

    Hip Bridge Single-Leg Regression: Bend raised leg at 90 degrees Progression: Straighten raised leg Perform 10 repetitions on each leg, 3 times

  • Eighth Day of Stretchmas

    Bird-Dog Knee Touch Perform 10 repetitions (each side) alternating sides, 3 times

  • Seventh Day of Stretchmas

    Curl Up Regression: Elbows Assist (on the mat) Progression: Elbows Raised (off the mat) Perform 10 repetitions, 2 – 3 times  

  • Sixth Day of Stretchmas

    Hip Bridge Regression: Arms down Progression: Arms up Perform 10 repetitions, 2 – 3 times