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Category Archives: Workout Routines
Episode 92 – The Star Crunch: Best home exercise for abs.
Even though I usually advise avoiding exercises that target your abs specifically, I do think that if there is one abs exercise you should include in your home or gym workout, then it’s the Star Crunch. I hadn’t really discovered this exercise, until I did 6 sets of it a few weeks ago. The result?… Read More
Episode 89 – Is your back straight? A simple technique to check whether you have kyphosis or not.
A few weeks ago I would have responded to this question with a big YES! But then I learned this simple kyphosis check, and to my disappointment, I discovered that I too have a rounded upper back. You see all those hours of daily slouching, sitting in front of my computer, take their toll. In… Read More
Episode 87 – Stiff back? A simple technique to release your back.
So you are spending the whole day sitting? You are not alone. Me too. With the way our lives are structured we can hardly escape sitting too much. And reversing those slouching habits is just hard! So what do you do? Are you doomed to bad posture? No! I learned this upper back release technique… Read More
Episode 85 – Splits in 4 months? If I did it, you can do it too with this leg flexibility stretching routine.
I always loved the idea of being flexible but it just didn’t seem possible for me. Even though I could so splits when I was still in school, a thigh injury took my flexibility away. I went from flexible to stiff in an instant! For years even the idea of splits caused me pain. Every… Read More
Episode 83 – 7 reasons this lazy workout routine is amazing.
I’m human. Translation? I’m sometimes too lazy to go to the gym. I just don’t feel like dressing up and driving. It feels like too much effort. Especially when I am tired. But I do feel like…watching TV! Especially when I get hooked with yet another TV series…I just love spending my free time watching… Read More
Episode 81 – 7 office stretching exercises to get energized at work.
Sitting kills. Multiple studies now support that sitting is the new smoking, with people who sit too long having a 54% increase in heart attack risk. Even though most of us spend multiple hours on our desk chair every day averaging 9.3 hours of total sitting a day, there is light at the end of the… Read More
Episode 79 – Best posture exercise for…slouching too much when sitting, or else hunchbacks, or else kyphosis.
Two weeks ago I attended a postural assessment workshop. Unfortunately, even though all of the participants were fitness professionals, over 90% of us discovered we had thoracic kyphosis, or else, a rounded upper back. For most of us kyphosis was not obvious, but if you actually went through the assessment you could see it that… Read More
Episode 77: Best butt workout routine to look and…walk better.
Several people neglect doing a butt workout. They focus on their upper body and forget about their lower body. I guess they don’t know that a worked out butt does not only give you good looks – our butts are instrumental for our walking and posture. If your butt is weak then your walking will… Read More
Episode 75: The lower back pain workout.
It’s a fact: 80% of Americans will get at least 1 episode of Low Back Pain in their lives. So if you have not yet gotten, it’s actually quite probable that at some point in your life low back pain will hit you as well. Especially, with all those hours we spend sitting with a… Read More
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Episode 73: The exercise that kicks your butt…and prevents osteoporosis [video]!
Hello Fitness Reloaders! We have all heard about osteoporosis. After all, according to the US department of Health and Human Services, 50% of all women and 20% of all men over the age of 50 will suffer from an osteoporotic fracture at some point in their lives. So probably your mom, your uncle, or your… Read More