The ultimate goal of stretching is to increase the functional range of motion around your joints, to improve your physical performance and decrease your risk of injury. Here are a few more reasons why you should stretch.

A flexible joint is able [...]

Start with 3 questions to think of an effective exercise for your goal:

What is the goal of the motion to be performed? (Where does the muscle attach and what does it do?)

What direction is the resistance coming from?
- free-weights =  [...]

Sets

A set is the number of repetitions of an exercise followed by a rest interval.  The number of sets is dependent on your goal and experience.

Basic Guidelines:

1. 3-months Consistently  =  1-2 sets per exercise

2. 3-months to a Year Consistently  =  2-3 sets [...]

Proper posture puts the body in a state of peak efficiency by:

1. Ensuring that the muscles of the body are aligned for efficient functioning.
2. Allowing for safe shock absorbtion and distribution of force throughout the body.
3. Alleviating excess joint stress.
4. Influences efficient neuromuscular communication.

What [...]

The push up is one of the most underrated exercises available to challenge the upper body strength of every level of fitness enthusiast. Push ups are one of the top recommended exercises among elite trainers because they offer the following [...]

In the past several years, research has shown that no matter what age you are; weight training has many youthful regenerating benefits. Resistance or Weight training can have several different physical and physiological effects on the body and on specific [...]

There are two different types of workouts. For simplicity, let’s call them Full-body and Splits.  A workout that has combined exercises designed to use virtually every body part is, of course, considered a full-body routine.  A workout that splits the body [...]

There are few things that turn a head quicker than a bare torso with well-defined abdominal muscles. You’ll hear them called many things; ripped abs, 6-pack abs, shredded abs, washboard stomach. Whatever you choose to call them, there’s no denying [...]

We all know that long-lasting, body-changing results are rarely the product of only one intervention.  Permanent results are achieved by using a combination of the right nutrition and the right exercise program.  This article offers six helpful dos and don’ts [...]

I’ll bet you think I’m going to say they all ‘called Jenny’. While that would be a true statement, it’s not what I had in mind. The commonality I found most interesting was all three women use journaling as a [...]