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Arizona Foothills Magazine: My 5 Fitness Favorites
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Exercise Movement Glossary: Bench Dip
Begin holding a seated position shifted a couple of inches off a bench, hands directly underneath the shoulders, and elbows extended and knees straight and locked out (knees straight). Lower your body downward, bending the elbows to a 90 degree angle. Press upward through your palms until the elbows are fully extended again. Modification […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Swing Up
Begin lying on the ground face up, knees bent, feet flat on the floor and arms extended overhead. Swing your arms forward, using the momentum to raise your shoulders and torso off the ground. Touch your wrists to top of your knees. Extend your arms overhead as you lower your torso and shoulders back to […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Air Squat
Begin in a standing position, feet shoulder width apart, toes pointed slightly out from parallel. Keeping your weight on your heels, bend your knees and lower your buttocks down and back, as if being pulled from a belt. Using your arms as a counterbalance, reach upward as the crease of your hips drops slightly below […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: High Knees
Standard: Keeping your weight on your toes, run in place, bringing your knees up toward your chest as high as you can. With your elbows at a 90-degree angle, pump your arms aggressively at your sides, in time with your running movement. Modification: Follow instructions for standard high knees, but instead of jogging in place, […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Lunge
Begin in a standing position with hands on your hips. Take an aggressive step backward with the right foot, gently “kissing” your back knee to the ground. Keeping the front left knee over the toe, drive through the forward heel to a standing position. Alternate legs and repeat. Standard:?At the bottom of the lunge, the […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Burpee
Begin standing with feet shoulder width apart. Squat down and place hands on the ground just inside your feet. Jump back to a plank position. Perform a push up. Jump forward with feet outside your hands. Jump up and touch your hands overhead.
Exercise Movement Glossary: Push Up
Begin in the plank position, hands underneath the shoulders, elbows extended and abs tight. Bend at your elbows, lowering your body to the ground but staying rigid from your feet to your shoulders. Immediately press upward, extending the elbows, keeping the abs tight and body rigid. Standard:?At the bottom of the push up, the chest […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Mountain Climber
Begin in a deep runner?s stance with both hands on the ground, shoulder width apart. Keeping your abs tight, jump and switch as fast as you can. Land gently with the opposite foot forward.?As soon as your feet touch down, jump quickly and switch feet again.?Switch feet back and forth in a rhythmic motion.
Exercise Movement Glossary: Sumo Squat
Unfortunately, I don?t have a photo to go with a Sumo Squat, but here?s how you do it: Stand in an extra wide stance, toes pointed out at a 45 degree angle. Engage your glutes and squeeze your buns together. Keeping your weight in your heels and your chest up, slowly lower your body into […]
Exercise Movement Glossary: Single Leg Hip Up
Begin lying on the floor facing upward with knees bent, feet flat on floor. Keeping your right knee bent, drive your left heel into the ground raising your right leg toward your chest as high as you can. Lower your hips back to the ground, touch, and repeat.
Exercise Movement Glossary: Plank
Elbows should be aligned directly underneath your shoulders, and your legs should be fully extended with ankles extended and toes on the ground. Squeeze your glutes, draw your belly button in toward your spine, and hold.
Exercise Movement Glossary: Curtsy Lunge
Begin in a standing position. Take an aggressive step backward with the right foot, gently ?kissing? your back knee to the ground. This photo is a back lunge, so to make it a “curtsy” lunge, simply step your right foot back, and behind your left foot (similar to a curtsy). Keeping front left knee over […]
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It’s Getting HOT in Here || 10 Tips for Menopause Survival
As women, eventually we will have to face the time in our lives when we go through this DREADED stage of life. I know many of you (and myself included!) probably haven’t even thought about menopause! However, there have been many instances recently of close friends of mine in their 30s and early 40s (for […]
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