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Multitasking Move: Side Plank Star
Looking for a move to target you shoulders, core, and legs? Give Side Plank Star a try. It's tough to balance at first, but once you start including this move in your strength training sessions, you'll gain stability and strength.
No Equipment Necessary: Side Plank Leg Lift
I love exercises that work multiple areas of my body. These kinds of moves are usually challenging so you never get bored doing them, and you can feel them working immediately so you're more apt to add them to your routine. This exercise will target your shoulders, waist, abs, and thighs.
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Weekend Workout: 1-Legged Core Exercises
Weekends are often jam-packed with traveling, errands, spending time with friends and family, and house chores, which means you can't always fit in a regular workout. So here are some strength training moves you can squeeze in when you have a few minutes. They don't require any equipment so you can do them anywhere.
How to Strength Train With a Balance Board
If you belong to a gym, you may have seen this weird UFO-looking piece of equipment lying around. It's known as a balance board. When used for strength training exercises, it's a great tool for runners, skiers, tennis players, and yogis because it helps improve coordination and balancing abilities.
Strike a Yoga Pose: Sage
There are so many variations of Sage pose — Beginner's Sage, the tougher Sage Tree, and the even more difficult Half Bound Lotus Sage. Now you're ready for this challenging full variation known simply as Sage. It requires extreme balance as well as flexibility in the hips and hamstrings.
Strike a Yoga Pose: Sage Half Bound Lotus
Balancing poses are really fun to try and they also perfect your posture and muscle control. After trying Beginner's Sage and Sage Tree, I think you're ready for a more challenging variation: Sage Half Bound Lotus. If the name makes it sound challenging, that's because it is.
Recession Proof Your Workouts With These 6 Moves
There is no need to go to the gym to work out or own hand weights for that matter. So if you just ended your contract with your gym, there are many moves that work your entire body, and to do them all you need is you. Here are some of my favorite exercises that require absolutely no equipment.
Fire Fighter Workout: Part III
If you tried the fire fighter workout that I posted earlier then you're feeling for those folks in uniform, since the workouts are literally no walk in the park. Here is the core/cardio portion of the circuit workout. Be prepared to sweat as these circuits are loaded with some tough exercises.
At Home Cardio Moves
Winter is upon us making it difficult to exercise outside. That is where the gym comes in handy, but if that is one expense you have trimmed from your budget, check out these at home cardio moves. They will get your heart pumping and lift your spirits even though it is cold and dreary outside.
Pilates Move: Leg Pull Back
Here is a Pilates move to work your entire being – abs, arms, core, hip flexors, and legs – called the Leg Pull Back (or Leg Pull Up). It is challenging and fun and a whole new take on the plank because here your back is to the ground. How's that for turning the move inside out.
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