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The countrys new guidelines for physical health set a minimum of 30 minutes a day, at least 4 times a week, of moderate exercise for adults. Depending on your age and abilities, the frequency and intensity of exercise can vary. Read more »
Studies have confirmed that regular exercise can benefit you as much as or more than medicines can. (Please do not use this blog as expert physician advice.) Working out is the bodys way of staying or becoming healthy. 46,000 people were studied and the findings concluded that exercise relieves certain allergies, high cholesterol, depression, insomnia and respiratory infections. Other treatments that are considered equivalent to exercise are massage, proper nutrition, herbs, and acupuncture. Regular exercise also worked equally well as prescription medications for arthritis and back pain.
AthleKinetix has revolutionized the way group exercise is taught in gyms around the country. We are training/consulting specialists whose main goal is to return group exercise departments into the revenue generating producers they once were. Our signature AthleKinetix instructor training workshops and classes have brought back members to group exercise in record numbers. AthleKinetix makes exercise exciting again. No more repetition, no more predictability, and no more boredom!
You will soon learn that I am driven to be successful in all things fitness. Along with Hard CORE Kinetix, an offering from Athlekinetix, I am co-owner of a fitness e-commerce site called Fitness Future. All your fitness needs, whether informative articles or products to get you and your clients into shape, are available at FitnessFuture.com.
If you look through my videos you will see some colorful environments which actually have purpose, read on to learn about color therapy and how it affects your mind and body. I created this program, Colorgized Yoga.
Picture your next exercise session this way:
You are in a quiet, darkened studio. One candle illuminates the center of the room. Gentle, melodious chanting resonates through the speakers, barely audible. You feel a profound sense of peace and tranquility as you focus on the rhythm of your own breath. Red, the first of the seven chakra colors, filters throughout the room. It permeates not only your eyes, but the pores of your skin, and you feel as though your entire body is responding to the vibration of the color waves.
You flow into Warrior One Pose (Virabhadrasana I) and you hold your body there as you take a deep, cleansing breath. You affirm to yourself, “I have honor; I have beauty; I have power.” You stand strong and repeat these affirmations with passion, conviction, and belief.
This is the essence of a Chakra-clearing yoga and meditation session. It is a truly unique, multisensory mind-body experience that fuses together the holistic benefits of yoga, meditation, color therapy, and positive affirmations. And it just might be the best mindful exercise around today.
Carmen Electra, Kate Moss and you can all be enjoying fitness while grinding, bumping and laughing. Well, I would be laughing at my attempt to do the bump and grind in a well lit room full of other women. Anyone can do it, PTO moms, young adults, CEO’s, middle aged, anyone with an open mind who is willing to try. Some sample exercises you will perform in a Pole Dance class are:
Walk Around:
Shoulders and butt are pulled back, chest juts forward, pole in the bend of the elbow… now STRUT
Leg Grip:
You guessed it, jump onto the pole and hold on with your legs. Try to straighten one leg while you spin around.
Bridge:
Grasp the pole with both hands and place between your legs, straddle. Bend your knees and arch your back while looking behind you. (Be careful if you have a bad back.)
Ripple:
Think motion, fluidity and grace. Place one hand on the pole and lean in. Shoulders first, then pull shoulders back as the belly comes forward. Finally, pull your shoulders back until the pole is between your legs. This should be done slowly.
Reverse Hold:
Grasp the pole with your hands and fully extend your arms over your head. Hook the pole in the bend of your right leg, and with feet crossed behind you, slowly and seductively spin around the pole.
Vitamins are a lot like diet and exercise. People take an all or none approach to them. The biggest mistake people make when taking vitamins, is mistakenly believing that oral vitamin pills are the only way to get the daily allotment of vitamins for good health. There is such thing as too much vitamins. Read more »
The biggest mistake people make with resistance training is overemphasizing their upper bodies. For optimum results, it is important to balance out all muscle groups. Women, in particular are looking for awesome legs and butts and there is no better way to achieve this then going back to the fundamentals of lower body training. Read more »
There is a direct correlation between what we put in our mouth and our overall health. Proper nutrition and daily physical exercise is the winning combination for longevity and quality of life. People use as an excuse that they don’t like healthy food or they don’t know how to incorporate it into their diet. The good news is its simple to make nutritious changes in your diet by including these superfoods daily. Read more »
The Body Bar is one of the most underutilized pieces of equipment in exercise. By challenging your muscles in a different way, you will confuse and fatigue your muscles. This muscle confusion is what produces results in your body. Doing resistance training in the same way every time yields the same results. Add a Body Bar routine to your workout and reap the benefits today.
Just like dumbbells, body bars come in different weights. For beginners, start with a lighter bar in order to get familiar with the exercises. Any exercise that can be done with a dumbbell, can be done with a body bar. Chest presses are great and even more effective if you lay on a ball or BOSU because than your glutes are engaged as well. Squats, lunges, rows, tricep kickbacks, and overhead presses all can be done with the Body Bar.
What makes Body Bar exercises unique, are not necessarily the exercise, but the awkwardness of negotiating the bar during the exercises. There are stability issues inherent in balancing the bar while performing an exercise. This instability is what takes the body bar a step above what dumbbells can do. Core and stability muscles are engaged in every movement.
All exercises are beneficial, but varying the equipment used to execute those exercises, makes all the difference.
