Family Fitness – Week 1: Kids begin to push away from their parents and exert their independence during the pre-teen years. Often the only interaction a family may have is through sports, where parents attend their children’s games and cheer from the sidelines. A great way to reconnect is through…
Transform Your Home into an SLT Gym with Total Gym: Pilates-cardio is the hot fusion workout for a summer-ready body, and Total Gym is poised to help you sculpt and define every smoking curve of your dream physique. The SLT (strengthen lengthen tone) full body workout, developed by Amanda Freeman in…
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Sports Specific Workout - Total Gym for Tennis. Tennis Anyone? Build Strength and Add Power to Your Game! Tennis is a fun sport that requires one to use various upper and lower body muscle groups while moving, lunging, bending and twisting. I grew up playing tennis and have discovered through…
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PT Corner: Exercises Designed To Prevent Shin Splints. A few years ago while training for the Boston Marathon, I developed shin splints. I thought if I could just make it through the race I would then do everything I could to rid myself of shin splints, and prevent myself from getting them…
5 Tips For Getting Ripped Faster: Summer is just around the corner and who wouldn’t like to look a little more shredded? As we start to shed our winter and spring cover up clothes for bathing suits and bikinis, we need to be ready. Building up muscle, and getting leaner…
Introducing the Total Gym CycloTrainer 2: For the days when the weather isn’t cooperating for outdoor exercise, your bike has a flat tire, or you just want to add a cardio challenge to your Total Gym routine, the CycloTrainer 2 (CT 2) is a perfect addition to your workout arsenal.…
Cramps – Causes and Prevention: Do you ever get a stitch in your side, or a pain in your leg that awakens you at night or during a workout? What are cramps and why do you get them? What are Cramps? Cramps are a sudden tightening of a muscle, which can be caused by several factors such as musculoskeletal, neurological, or…
Bring The Sexy Back To Your Shoulders: It’s that time of the year where we crave some summer heat. No more hats, scarfs, boots, or heavy clothes- thank goodness! So are you ready to sport your sleeveless tops and swimsuits?! If this sounds appealing to you, focus your goals on developing your shoulder muscles for…
Stretches & Core Exercises You Can Do at Your Desk: Your health is at risk if you sit still all day. Maintaining a sedentary position for hours causes blood to pool in the lower extremities so the feet and ankles swell. Hip and knee joints stiffen due to lack of movement. Poor…
Age Strongly: Workout after 70! Use It or Lose It: Feeling SUPER at 70. By this point in time many of us have probably heard the phrase “use it or lose it”. This saying could not be truer when it comes to preventing muscle loss and lack of flexibility as…