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Why Rest Days Are Important & How to Make the Most of Them

Without question it is important to take rest days to first restart the body and the mind. Taking a break from a structured workout routine allows the body time to recover properly while also giving muscles, nerves, and bones time to rebuild. I have been asked by various people in my exercise classes about recommended activities to perform during a rest day. One of the first things we discuss are light activities they may enjoy so they will want to continue with it moving forward. Here are a few fun light activity recommendations along with their benefits.

Total Gym Butt and Gut Workout

Have the holiday’s gotten the best of your body leaving you with fun memories and a little ‘extra fluff’ on your waistline? It’s the perfect time to get your ‘butts’ back in gear and shape up that waistline with a good booty liftin’ and core slimming workout that will shape, sculpt, and tone these stubborn areas. Plus, your backside and torso will look and feel great as you ‘strut your stuff’.

Strength and Conditioning Workout on Your Total Gym

A sample Strength & Conditioning Program with 7 exercises for your Total Gym that you can incorporate into your exercise regimen 2 – 3 days per week that will have you feeling like an athlete in no time.

FORTNITE CHALLENGE: An Epic Game for an Epic Workout

Bodies are meant to be in motion especially when you can make it fun. Engage with your kids to get them up and moving by relating to something they enjoy, hence FORTNITE style. Set up a boot camp style with a few different stations that alternate between an exercise on the Total Gym, a body weight exercise, cardio, and a dance move. The person on the Total Gym counts 10 reps while everyone else performs the other exercises chosen! Then you rotate to the next station until all are performed. Perform the warmup and cool down all together.

Drink This, Sweat Off That

Holiday weight gain is not just from cookies, treats, or eating too much! It’s also contributed to cocktails loaded up with extra sugars in the drink. If you’re mindful of what’s in the food and drinks you intake, you can prevent ingesting any extra - unneeded calories this season. You can have your booze and drink it too but with healthier options. This season, try making ‘healthier’ holiday cocktails that will keep you happy (cheers!) and focused on your health for the new year!

Total Gym Foam Roller Attachment, the Inventor’s Story

December 19, 2018
Total Gym Direct
Health & Fitness / Workout Videos / Workouts
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Foam Rolling / Self Myofascial Release / Self Massage all are done using a soon to be archaic apparatus (at least for those of us that own a Total Gym) called the foam roller. One day, I was rolling out next to my Total Gym when I came up with the idea. Both of these products are time honored effective fitness tools that seemed a natural fit to me.

Holiday Hustle Workout

December 18, 2018
Maria Sollon
Health & Fitness / Workout Videos / Workouts
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The holidays are a busy time, but… it’s also an important time to stay on track with your own health goals. You can accomplish this by keeping stress levels low in order to focus on things that really matter for a healthy lifestyle, such as eating a good diet, staying active, and getting rest. As we move into the new year, set yourself up to feel invigorated with a healthier, happier you.

What is Gout and Who is Affected By It

December 17, 2018
Frances Michaelson
Health & Fitness / Healthy Eating / Uncategorized
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Gout is typically referred to by medical doctors as a form of arthritis where patients experience pain and inflammation in the joints, typically in the big toe, but can appear elsewhere in the body such as fingers, knees and hips. An unhealthy diet triggers gout attacks, especially those diets that are loaded with alcohol, high fructose corn syrup, and processed foods, and too much purine rich foods such as organs and red meats, shellfish, anchovies, for example. The Total Gym is a perfect piece of equipment if you have gout because you can work out your entire body using your own body weight in the comfort of your home. You can perform all exercises in a lying, seated, or kneeling position, without putting any pressure on your feet, which is typically where the inflammation resides.

Cassandra’s Hot Abs Workout

t is the holiday season and I am sure those jeans are getting a little tighter around the waist. We try to not over eat, but it can be so hard this time of year. Then we will go into the New Year resolution phase and maybe start the quest of eating healthier and exercising. I am sure this all sounds familiar, right?Don’t wait until after the holidays to get started on your fitness journey. START NOW with my gift to you: this HOT ABS WORKOUT!

Healthy Holiday Appetizers

We all love parties but not necessarily the unhealthy food that goes along with them. So here are three healthy, fast, and tasty appetizers that are also handy to prepare days ahead of time or simple to pack up and take to someone else’s party. I hope that you enjoy and share these recipes with your friends and family!