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Tag: Core

  • A Fast Yoga Fix to Amp Your Energy!

    For this week’s energy boosting tip, here are four poses to perform as a sequence – Aim for two to five times per week.  Try performing these poses when you wake up each morning before you begin your morning routine – You will feel more energized and alive throughout your day! 1.  PLANK Begin on…

  • Core Exercise of the Week!

    My apologies for my one day tardiness for this week’s “Tight Tuesday” post… Life happens!  I’m know all of you can relate! This week’s core exercise targets the internal and external oblique muscles (side abdominal muscles). Start position:  Standard Plank (on your elbows); Exact terminology is Prone Iso-Ab Motion:  As you draw-in your naval towards your spine and tighten your core…

  • It’s Time to Stabilize!

    Today’s post is about the functional importance of the core musculature.  Both, local stabilizers and global stabilizers, aid by keeping our spines stable and aligned and our core muscles tight throughout all of our movement patterns.  The core is our center of gravity (COG), the origin site of all our movements.  Specifically, the local stabilizers perform drawing-in maneuver and the global stabilizers perform bracing. Drawing-In Maneuver…

  • Muscles of the Core

    To start off the series of “Tight Tuesday” posts, I would like to begin with a post about basic core musculature anatomy… There are three parts of our core: Local Stabilization System, Global Stabilization System, and Movement System.  Local Stabilization System Muscles attach directly to the vertebrae  Primarily responsible for intervertebral and intersegmental stability, providing support from vertebra…