9 Important Questions to Help You Get Started Designing Your Personalized Fitness Plan For wellness success, each of us need to design our own unique personalized fitness plan. Our plan for weekly workouts needs to be Realistic, Do-Able, Lifestyle-friendly, and...
Bladder Control and Exercise: Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is Not OK! (For Women, or Men) Do you have a bladder control problem? If you pee when you workout… Don’t just go and buy adult diapers, you need to read this! An article about women, exercise, and...
The upper body strength benefits of incorporating handstands into your weekly workouts are huge. In daily life we don’t typically spend much time upside down on our hands. But, being upside-down is great for developing balance, body awareness and control, and...
Are you still out shopping and looking for great fitness gift ideas for the health enthusiasts in your life? What could be better than wellness solutions for better mind-body health from your head to your toes. These are perfect fitness gifts for Pilates students,...
Everyone is bustling about with holiday shopping. There’s one thing that should be on everyone’s list, but can’t be purchased with a credit or debit card. No matter how much we want physical fitness we can’t get there with wishes or wallets. It’s discipline,...
Question about Biking and Low Back Pain: “I am looking for some pointers on using a spin bike. I am challenged with low back pain, use clip in shoes, and am very conscious of heels straight in line from toes, but need butt and back positions. Thanks for any help you...
A fellow Pilates Teacher forwarded me an article from Greg Lehman, BKin, MSc, DC, MScPT entitled The mechanical case against foam rolling your IT Band. It can not lengthen and it is NOT tight. She wanted to know what I thought about the article… The article is an...
Why is physical fitness important to you? What’s the point of exercise? Are you thinking it’s just “to lose weight” or “to get a toned, hot body?” Well, those are great side-effects to exercise, but the real reason we should be toiling away in the gym or sweating it...
Have you ever experienced hip pain or low back pain? Most people at some point in their lives have dealt with one or both of these debilitating problems. Our sedentary lifestyle and poor movement habits have led to grippy overworked hip flexors, weak abs, and...
Get a Stronger Core, Improve Body Awareness and Enjoy Better Support for a Healthy Back and Better Body Mechanics with the Foam Roller Fitness 1 Knee to Chest Core Challenge Exercise Foam roller exercises are excellent opportunities to improve body awareness and...