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Tag: Exercise

  • 10 Fitness Tips to Kick-Off Your Week

    It is a new week filled with new beginnings – What new healthy habit(s) will you begin? Maintain an equal balance between work-life, exercise-recovery, and healthy meal-cheat meal, and live in the now! Be Active!  Be Healthy! Be YOU!

  • 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…

  • Inspiration to be a Fit, Healthy YOU This Week and Beyond!

    Don’t let another Case of the Mondays zap you from your exercise routine! Research indicates exercise is medicine, and its effects can uplift your mood and fight stress. Exercise is Medicine So, what are you waiting for? Get Up, Out, and Move! It does not take much! Just 30-minutes of light-moderate exercise 5 times per week will suffice!  Safely move…

  • Inspiration to Start Your Week!

    Make the Right Choice this Week. . . AND Make the Time to Exercise  One 30-minute work out session = 2% of your day Be Active!  Be Healthy!  Be YOU!

  • 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…

  • It’s a New Week – Get Up and Move!

    You do not need to spend countless hours at the gym, drenching your body in pools of sweat as you slave away on the treadmill, elliptical, or  stairclimber followed by hundreds of stomach crunches and endless bicep curls and squats to exercise. All you need to do is just move! The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s…

  • 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 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 Simple and Effective Way to Stay Active!

    You do not need to engage in a vigorous, high intensity Spin class in order to improve your health and well-being, and maintain an active lifestyle – Just get outside and go for a brisk walk… It is that simple! Make an effort to keep active this weekend – Your body and mind will thank you!…

  • The Anatomy of a New Fitness Routine

    The Do’s and Don’t’s of Any Exercise Routine