Many people are suffering with joint aches, and tightness. Massage sticks and foam rollers are excellent tools to use to help with those soft tissue (muscles, ligaments, tendons, fascia) issues.
In this video, I talk about the benefits of massage stick work, while demonstrating the proper technique.
Check out the video. Get yourself a massage stick on line, and start to improve the quality of your joint health, and the quality of your life. Those who haven’t heard of this, or tried it, make fun of it. Those who have tried it, have improved their health, and swear by it.
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How badly do you want it? Whatever is important to you; financial success, an athletic achievement, better relationships…..the right attitude & hard work are going to get you there.

Ask yourself if you’re approaching your life with the right attitude, & giving everything you’ve got.

Check out this video, to see how hard this guy was willing to work…

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In this video you will see David performing a great core building, upper body strength producing exercise….and he does a great job at the technique of keeping his hips straight & shoulders over his hands.

This is an advanced exercise for working your core (trunk muscles), and will also create a high heart rate response (when you incorporate many muscles used in an exercise, there is great demand for oxygenated blood to all muscles…therefore creating a more aerobic response & burning more calories). This also can be considered an upper body pushing exercise, because of the load placed on the chest, shoulders & triceps as well as the trunk work.

Great job David!

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The Power Plate is a wonderful exercise tool. It provides; muscle contraction, circulation, bone density & nervous system activation. Check out- www.powerplate.com

Bulgarian Split Squats are a challenging exercise, that helps with; balance, hip flexor stretching (important for those that spend a lot of time sitting), leg & glute strength, trunk activation, & shoulder mobility…in other words, a lot of great stuff!

If you don’t have access to a Power Plate, or other Whole Body Vibration (WBV) machine, just elevate your back foot on a step, box, or bench.

Give it a try!

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Many people suffer from neck pain. Quite often this is due to tight shoulders and poor posture. This video shows Sue performing an exercise called Face Pulls.

This exercise strengthens the rotator cuff muscles of the shoulder, and works on scapular retraction (shoulder blades squeeze). Most people are in head & shoulder forward posture due to lots of reading, computer work & driving. This exercise will help improve your posture & lessen pain.

Give it a try!

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In this video you will see Bob & Rob performing 2 med ball exercises; wall rotational throws, & vertical granny tosses. Med balls are a great workout tool, that can be used for power, strength, aerobic/ anaerobic conditioning & core work.

The wall rotational throws are great for core & aerobic response, and are also sports specific to the baseball/ tennis & golf swing. The vertical granny tosses are a power squat move. You throw the ball in the air, let it bounce, catch it on the way down & let it load you into the next squat throw.

As we age, the first piece of the wellness pie we lose, is power. Those muscle fibers suffer fibrosis, & don’t contract well. Our ability to run fast & jump deteriorate as we age, if we don’t keep them vibrant. These exercises do that….and they’re fun! Give it a try.

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In this short video, you will see Bob & Rob performing a 3 exercise circuit that works a lot of muscle, creates a high heart rate response & burns a lot of calories…both during & after the workout.

The 3 exercises are; valslide push ups, med ball slams & Bulgarian split squats. The slide push ups work; core, shoulder stability & mobility, while hitting your upper body pushing muscles (chest, shoulders & triceps).

The med ball slams powerfully work the lats & abs, & work the legs when you bend down to catch the ball on it’s small bounce (note that we used a “no bounce” med ball…be careful!).

The Bulgarian split squats work on; balance, flexibility (especially the hip flexors…which helps tight & shortened flexors from a lot of sitting), & the entire lower body (quads, hams & glutes).

Try this challenging circuit!

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Many people suffer from what I like to call “I slept wrong syndrome”.  If when you went to bed you didn’t have any pain, and when you woke up you did…you’re mobility joints (ankles, hips, thoracic spine or mid back, & shoulders) probably tightened up.  The pain in your neck or low back will get better by loosening up the mobility joint that got tight.  You see, the tight mobility joints cause difficulty for the stability joints above or below them (knees, lumbar spine or low back, & neck).

So check out this short video.  Peter performs 4 mobility exercises, & I explain the hows & whys.

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Most people mistakenly believe that reaching for their toes is a good way to get ready for exercise.  Actually, it’s a great way to get the muscles to relax, AFTER a workout.

Check out this short video.  Peter is performing a couple of dynamic warm up exercises to get ready for the workout to follow.  We first started with some mobility exercises.  These are more gentle stretches that help keep the mobile joints…well, mobile.  When the mobility joints (ankles, hips, thoracic or mid back & shoulders) stay mobile, they keep the stability joints (knees, lumbar or low back, & neck) pain free.

Check out the video, and let me know if you have any questions…by leaving me a question in the Q & A section of the blog.

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In this short clip you will see Peter performing a challenging mini circuit (3 cones that are about 5 feet apart).  Peter performs 10 pushups at each cone, then uses a mobility/ dynamic warm up exercise (world’s greatest stretch) to get from cone to cone.

With non stop functional movement this type of circuit is great for; strength, muscular endurance, activating the Central Nervous System, aerobic conditioning, joint mobility, & post exercise fat burning….Wow! that’s a lot of great stuff!

Check out the video, and if you’re up to it, give it a try…but modify it for you.  How?  If you’re a beginner, do the pushups on your knees, or push the cones closer together.  If you’re advanced, make the exercise tougher, & push the cones farther away.  You can add cones.

I only filmed 1 circuit, but Peter performed 4 others…with different exercises at each cone, & different linking exercises from cone to cone.  Good luck!

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