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Stability & Sport Exercise of the week #3: Bird Dog
Stability & Sport Exercise of the week #3: Bird Dog Patients and practice members of mine will be familiar with this one! I provide this exercise for most folks as an overall core stability exercise. Its the Bird Dog exercise with... Read More
Stability & Sport Exercise of the week #2: Balance Trainer
Exercise of the week…. Do it on a balance trainer! Almost anything you do on the floor can be done on a balance trainer (eg. Bosu Trainer)! Doing arm curls? Kneel on the Bosu (this exercise for the biceps will be awesome... Read More
Stability & Sport Exercise of the week #1: Stability
Stability and balance is critically important to performance in sport. Developing it now and through out ones life can also be life saving. The ability to prevent a fall or recover successfully from a stumble to avoid a fall depends... Read More
3 Pillars of Anti Aging Exercise: Stability and Sport
Stability and Sport ~Balance~ The way elite athletes have been training for the last 15 years is filtering into the mainstream. Functional training is where we combine fitness with balance in ways that help us improve our daily activities. This is where... Read More
Strength Exercise of the week #3: Tricep Dips
Exercise of the Week ~ Dips Toning arms with a weight bearing dip exercise is a great way to add some upper body strength. This exercise has tons of variations that can make it easy to very challenging. All the way... Read More
Strength Exercise of the week #2: Pull Ups/Chin Ups
Pull Ups and Chin Ups both target lots of muscle groups. Its a great basic movement that is intuitive and challenging with many advanced variations. You will be strengthening your trapezius to give you that V shape to your back,... Read More
Strength Exercise of the week #1: Split Leg Squats
Split Leg Squats are Dr. D’s Favourite Kettle Bell Exercise! •It incorporates Balance/Stability •Safer than Regular Squats •Engages large Muscle groups •Activates the glutes which protect low back injury It’s quite common that the glutes don’t operate as well as they should. When the glutes... Read More
3 Pillars of Anti Aging Exercise: Strength Training
The Three Pillars of Anti Aging Exercise continue this month with Pillar Two, STRENGTH! Check out the graph of the inevitable loss of strength as we age and its quite shocking. Its often been said that aging happens slowly at... Read More
Zone 2 - Exercise of the week #3: Rowing
We’ve discussed Running or (brisk/inclined walking) and cycling. Other popular Zone 2 exercises are elliptical, swimming and rowing. I tend to change things up seasonally but you can mix them any way you like. Of course we can mix other... Read More
Zone 2 - Exercise of the week #2: Cycling
Cycling is a fun way to get your Zone 2 exercise! It’s a lot easier on a resistance trainer to lock in that Zone 2 effort for the prescribed 20 minute session. On the road or on a mountain bike... Read More
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