4 Steps to Reboot Your Fitness
September always signals a fresh start, return to routines and re-setting goals for the remainder of the year. It’s the perfect time to reboot your fitness routine if you’ve been in a ‘lazy daze vacation mode’. Here are 4 tips on how to improve your fitness that are sure to get you back in action and motivated to stick to your workout regime. 1. Start with the WHY On the surface it’s easy to come up with the reasons behind our fitness goals and routine. We all want to lose or maintain our weight and look our best. ...
read more5 Ways to Add the Fun Factor to Fitness
Are you ready to Bust out of Boredom and mix up your fitness regime? Summer time is a great time to mix it up, challenge yourself and add fun exercise activities to your routine! If you’re feeling unmotivated by your exercise routine try these 5 tips for making it …well, less routine. 1. Make a Splash! There are so many options when it comes to exercising in the water. Not only is working out int the water gentle on your joints, it’s great for toning your muscles too. Go for a swim in a pool, lake or the ocean. Do a...
read more5 Best Wrist Strengthening Exercises
One part of the body that gets overlooked for exercising is the wrist. When it comes to strengthening the arm, people are more focused on the biceps, triceps and forearms. Exercising your wrist has lots of benefits, including strengthening your grip and forearms, as well as helping to prevent injuries, and these exercises listed below can be done in the convenience of the home or office. Let’s take a look at five wrist strengthening exercises. The only equipment you’ll need is free weights, curl bar, and a small exercise ball or gel...
read more7 Tips to Avoid Tendonitis
Weekend Warrior Syndrome Has the sunshine beckoned you outside to play? Are you feeling the effects of being overzealous in your exercising? You may have Tendinitis which is commonly caused from over doing it – too much, too soon. ‘Weekend warriors’, people that exercise hard, primarily on the weekends, are prone to tendinitis. Jumping into tennis and golf games in the spring after a winter off or engaging in an overly rigorous weight lifting routine will lead to tendinitis. Catching tendinitis early is the key to treating it...
read moreWAGs for CrossFit Training
It seems like every few years a new training regimen comes around that takes the workout world and gyms by storm. Last year it was TRX, a few years earlier it was Pilates, and now, it’s CrossFit Training. CrossFit is functional training using an array of exercises that combines aerobics, body weight exercise, gymnastics and weight lifting using barbells, kettlebells, dumbbells and sometimes uncommon things like a tractor tire. The exercises can include anything from sprints, pushups, pullups, box jumps, muscle-ups, jump rope and situps. ...
read more5 Tips for Safer Use of Mobile Devices -Part 2
We can’t seem to put them down! Kids, young adults, parents and seniors are plugged in. We text, play games, read email, text, scroll our music list, surf the net, text, tweet, post pictures to face book and text some more –all from the palm of our hand. We do this anywhere and everywhere. Minutes add up to hours. These hours combined with awkward wrist positions, prolonged grips and repetitive micro-movements increase your chances of developing hand pain from cell phone use which could lead to tendonitis and carpel tunnel syndrome. Our...
read more5 Hand Protection Tips for Texters
Are you addicted to your digital device? Handheld electronics often require repetitive motion on small buttons, awkward wrist movements and prolonged grasps. All these repetitive micro movements of texting, playing electronic games & tapping your tablet can take a toll on your hands. Have you experienced fatigue, soreness, stiffness, or hand pain from texting? If so you may have an overuse injury. To avoid ‘digital distress’ follow these 5 tips: 1. Check and realign your posture. Using tablets, laptops and hand held devices with...
read more3 Yoga Poses that can cause Knee Injuries
There are many reasons for knee pain –overuse, arthritis or an injury that damages the structures in and around the knee joint. Aside from the obvious direct hit to the knee, often knee injuries are caused by more subtle forces such as overuse, twisting motions and overstretching. A stress from one direction may result in a sprain -an overstretching or tear in one of the ligaments, while a twist of the knees often causes a tear in the cartilage or meniscus. Taking the knee joint through a greater range of motion than it can tolerate, such...
read moreThumb Pain
3 TIPS FOR THUMB TENDINITIS The most common site of source of pain in your thumb and wrist originates in the thumb pad where the metacarpal bone connects to the wrist at the trapezium carpal bone. The CMC joint or ‘basal thumb joint’ is a highly mobile, loose capsule joint. This mobility is essential for dexterity and the elaborate movements the thumb allows our hands to perform. But the constant use of our thumbs in our daily activities, along with the mobile structure of the joint makes the thumb susceptible to pain and...
read moreHow to Avoid & Relieve Muscle Cramps
Have you ever had the arch of your foot cramp up as you gracefully point your toes in Pilates class or your calf cramp up in the middle of a run? Most likely we’ve all experienced a muscle cramp (or “charley horse”) at some time and know just how painful one can be! Muscle spasms and cramps are more common in the summer because your body loses electrolytes and minerals as you sweat. With a few precautions though, you can enjoy active fun in the sun, hot yoga class or a toe pointing Pilates class without the agony of a sudden cramp. The...
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