Purpose: Strengthen and Stabilize Muscles Worked: Quads, Gluteus, Hamstrings, and Core Form: Place one foot on a weight bench. Ensure your legs are hip width apart. Your front leg should be about 3 feet away from the bench. Place your hands on your hips. Slowly squat down until your knee is bent about 90 degrees. Be [...]

Muscles worked: triceps Purpose: strengthen Form: sit on the floor, lift your body up to a slightly bent elbow, and slowly lower until your bum is almost touching the floor. Lift yourself back up to a slightly bent elbow and repeat.

Muscles worked: gluteus, quads, hamstrings,and inner thighs, and calves. Purpose: strengthen Form: stand with the feet beyond shoulder width apart. The wide stance forces the inner thigh muscles to work harder. The toes should be turned out. Hold the medicine ball(optional) in front of the body or hands on the hips. Squat down until the [...]

Muscles Worked:  Deltoids, Pectorals, Traps Purpose: Strength and Stability Form: Standing in the middle of the theraband, grasp the ends of the band in one hand. Lift you arm upward in front of your body to shoulder level. keep elbow straight and thumb facing upward. Hold and slowly lower, and repeat. Complete exercise on both arms.

Assisted pull-up with heavy resistance band Muscles Worked: Latissimus Dorsi (back), and Biceps Purpose: Strengthen Form: Secure bands under one foot or knee. Place hands slightly wider than shoulder width. Grasp pull-up bar. Pull up until chin reaches bar, keeping proper posture. Slowly lower yourself to the starting position, repeat. Special Considerations: Reach to grasp [...]

So how much exercise are our bodies really meant to get to stay vital? We’ve come into the new year with new goals and intentions for better health and fitness. Some will join gyms, some will get personal trainers, but for those who may not have the budget to do just that, these are the [...]

I always searching the internet for inspiring stories, educational material, anything that can motivate and help to relate to our human experience. I am an avid follower of the blog tinybuddha.com. Yesterday’s blog post I found most relevant not only to the work I do, but I feel that many people in the fitness industry [...]

Kinesiology, also known as human kinetics is the scientific study of human movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, mechanical, and psychological mechanisms. Applications of kinesiology to human health include: biomechanics and orthopedics, rehabilitation, such as physical and occupational therapy, as well as sport and exercise.  Individuals who have earned degrees in kinesiology can work in research, the fitness industry, [...]

Preparing to have children is perhaps a new concept for an optimistic couple in a modern world. Why “prepare” to have children? Why is there ever a problem? Getting pregnant should be as easy as falling off a log at the Saturday office picnic in spring. Yet one in five couples over the age of [...]

Check out reach physio’s blog for the biggest fitness trends of 2010. Very interesting.