Did you know that by practicing the Push-Up Pull-Up phase of your push-up exercises you can improve upper body strength and successfully do a great, get all the way down and back up again push-up? (This post with tips to improve your push-up pull-up technique is...
Functional Movement
Core Conditioning – Are You Listening to Your Body to Improve Core Strength and Whole-Body Health
Core conditioning is a multi-faceted jewel that is key to enjoying a healthy life. On so many different levels we need to be more focused on improving core conditioning. I’m going out on a limb here and saying that I believe that at least 95% of “issues” related to...
Bye-Bye Back Pain By Practicing this Simple Back-Opening Breathing Exercise
Are You Ready to Take Action and Do Something About Your Back Pain? Back pain can be anywhere along the spine from the tip of your tailbone, all the way up to the base of your skull. Regardless of where it hurts, or what you’ve done to aggravate it – the truth is,...
Alleviate Shoulder Tension with These 10 Healthy Movement Habits to Help You Feel Great
Are you sick and tired of aggravating neck and shoulder pain, and ready to change your habits to help alleviate shoulder tension? I’ve had the opportunity to help so many clients over the past 20+ years teaching Pilates who have walked thru my door complaining of neck...
Shoulder Tension, Stress, and Shivering: How Winter Weather Affects Your Health
Shoulder Tension, Stress, & Shivering Have you ever thought about relationship being cold has on the amount of shoulder tension and neck stress you’re holding onto in your body? If you’re in a colder climate do you seem to feel worse in the Winter, and not-so-bad...
Heart Health and the Benefits of Pilates to Improve Your Quality of Life
Heart Health is More than just Cardio. Yes, the heart is a muscle and it's important to do activities that get our blood pumping. To keep our heart strong and work on improving heart health with exercise it's important to do at least 20-60 minutes of aerobic activity...
Top 5 At-Home Pilates Training Tools
How to Have FUN with your Fitness Program and Make the Most of Your At-Home Workouts with Pilates Training Tools I have a client, Donna, who has probably purchased at least 5 foam rollers! She wanted one to use at home in-between her studio workouts. But the funny...
6 Fitness MYTHS & the Fitness Truth: Keep Your Workouts on Track
How often do you think you understand exactly what you need to do to improve your health... and then discover that you've been given some slightly incorrect information? These fitness myths are just that, misinformation that's been spread across the globe, that in...
Strength vs Flexibility: Which is Better for Health Improvement?
Curious to know what might help you improve your health quicker, focusing on strength vs flexibility? Which is better for health improvement, strength vs flexibility? Have you ever wondered which part of your fitness program you should really be focusing most of your...
Pilates Strategies to Eliminate Boring Workouts
Are you dreading boring workouts? There are so many things to pay attention to for healthy movement habits that there's no way we should ever have boring workouts! Do you realize that there are 206 bones in the human skeleton? (Actually 270 at birth and, as some fuse...