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hen it comes to feeling good and moving freely in your body, movement variety is the key. To make sure I move in more ways than just the sitting-to-type position, the standing-to-prepare-food position, and the helping-with-homework position, I have a few exercises I do every single day without fail. My secret to consistency is associating different exercises with something I’m …
o you ever have wrist pain when you exercise or feel like your wrists are weak? If so, I have a simple solution you must try. Tightness in the hands and forearms affects hand alignment, especially in exercises requiring you to be on your hands and knees or quadruped position. This tightness can make it impossible to spread your fingers …
used to pull in my stomach all the time. For a while, I couldn’t even relax my abdominal muscles because I’d been holding them in so much it was an unconscious habit. Pilates is known for building core strength, and there was a time when I mistakenly believed that improving and demonstrating core strength was synonymous with pulling the abs …
f a rounded upper spine or computer slouch is on your mind, you definitely want to check out the exercise in today’s video. A primary reason the upper spine slouches forward in the first place has a lot to do with arms—what’s done with them, and more importantly, what’s NOT. When’s the last time you used your arms to hold …
ave you ever caught yourself holding your shoulders up for no apparent reason? You might be driving along in your car or typing on your phone (hopefully not both at the same time), and all of a sudden, your shoulders have snuck up to your ears like they have a secret to whisper. Mine sneak up all the time. How …
ne of my mentors used to say that squeezing your butt cheeks together for exercise was the “kiss of death” for the SI (sacroiliac) joint and pelvic floor. This sounds dramatic I know, but squeezing your cheeks together for glute strength, at best prevents you from doing what you think you’re doing, gaining tone and functional glute strength, and at …
