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Fit Tip: Cool Down After Lifting
Even if you're only lifting weights or doing body resistance exercises, you should still cool down. A great cool down for your lifting days is stretching the worked muscles for five minutes. Then using a foam roller over the worked body parts for another five minutes.
BodyBolster
I just came across the BodyBolster. It's a foam roller, gym ball, and Pilates reformer all rolled into one.
It can be used with your exercise routine, to rehabilitate injuries, or for workplace health.
Exercise Video: Hip Flexor Stretch with Foam Roller
Do you run? Do you sit? Do you bike?
It Is Thigh Time: Roll Out
I have had lots of requests for thigh trimming exercises and I know a thing or two about bulky thighs - having speed skater thighs myself. A lot of factors are at play when it comes to body shape. There is genetics - when I look at the legs of all my female relatives and see many "speed skaters."
The Skinny On: Foam Rollers
You've seen them at the gym - the simple cylinders, about 3 feet long. You've seen white ones. You've seen blue ones.
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Ease Sore Muscles With a Tennis Ball
Getting a massage is not always an affordable option to relieve sore muscles. I use The Stick at home but when I'm on the go it's not something I can take with me. Because of its size, a tennis ball provides on the spot muscle relief wherever you are.
Low Back Pain? Try Stretching Your Hip Flexors
After doing a sprint interval workout, my running buddy complained that sprinting often made her low back feel tight. I had a notion that her psoas might be tight. This muscle is a major hip flexor and it attaches to the low spinal vertebrae.
Spring Running Prehab: Roll Your IT Band
Longer days plus warmer weather equals longer runs, especially if you're training for an endurance race. While you can often feel that your muscles have taken a beating, the IT band, the fascia that lines the outside of your quad, takes a beating too. Often you don't feel how tight the IT band is until it interferes with your knee joint function and you end up with the Iliotibial Band Syndrome.
Healthy Dose: Link Time
- Today is the day for free BRight ice cream at Baskin-Robbins — FitCeleb
- An out of this world turkey chili recipe for you to try — Margarita Shapes Up
- Foam rollers are the best RX for sore muscles — Fresh Fitness Tips
- The lowdown on dairy as a source for calcium — Nutrition Data Blog
- Trainer Bob loses his cool on Biggest Loser Couples — That's Fit
- Put exercise on the top of your to do list — Shape
- Desk yoga for the sedentary and the tight — Fit Bottomed Girls Source
Block Work: Upper Back Release
If you've never stretched using a foam block, then get ready to embark on a whole new realm in the world of stretching. Blocks can be used to get you deeper into stretches than you can on your own. This upper back release is a simple and relaxing exercise that will open your chest and shoulders.
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