Enjoy Whole-Body Strengthening Without Any Fancy Equipment!
A great body position on push-ups, makes the exercise so much easier to do! And with great technique you’ll be getting a lot more bang for your buck from every repetition to improve your upper body strength and fitness.
Push-ups in Pilates normally are done at the end of a Mat workout, but they’re a great exercise that you can do anytime, anywhere without any fancy equipment to maintain your fitness.
To Start the Exercise:
Stand with your feet in a V-position, arms extended over your head.
Walk your hands down the front of your body while you bend forward to reach the floor.
Walk your hands out on the mat taking 3-5 steps to get into a long and strong push-up position.
While you are getting into your push-up position…the following things should happen in this order:
Heels lengthen away from the head
Tailbone tucks under and reaches towards the heels
Lower abdominals lift up and in
Glutes & Inner thighs squeeze
Shoulder blades pull down the back
Spine lengthens through the top of the head
To do a Push-Up and keep a great body position, the sequence of what happens is really important.
Inhale to lower the whole-body, exhale, pull the low belly up, shoulders down, then engage the muscles under the shoulders, around the ribcage and into the belly to help lift the body up while straightening the arms.
Here’s a video clip with my fitness tips and a Push-Up demo to help you improve your body position and Push-Up power.
It’s great to see that even Dr. Oz is helping to educate people about the benefits of wearing the right shoes to keep your feet healthy. Check out this Dr. Oz show video to see what he has to say about determining your arch type – normal, flat, or high, and what the wear patterns on your shoes can tell you about your feet, so you can be sure when you’re shopping for shoes that you find the best shoe for you.
And from my perspective as a foot-fitness expert… good shoes can help support your feet, but keeping your foot, ankle, and leg muscles strong, fit, and flexible is even better. Even if it’s only for 2-3 minutes a couple of times a week. Taking time to exercise your feet can help improve your arches, retrain gait habits, and help you enjoy pain-free feet! Check out the book Fantastic Feet! And lots of other great foot-care goodies here.
If you’re one of those folks who has a tendency to lock your knees, and may occasionally be bothered with knee pain… Here’s a video with a quick and easy exercise you can practice just about anywhere to help strengthen the muscles around the knee joint, become more aware of the difference between a locked and unlocked knee, and learn how to stabilize a straight knee without locking the joint.
The benefits of this simple kneecap dance exercise include: Less time standing with your knees locked, stronger quadriceps, freer movement of the leg, and better tracking of the patella (knee cap), which all help to reduce knee pain.
There are so many things that contribute to the health of our bodies, communities, and countries. The mind, body, spirit connection is something that is accessible to us all if we’re open to the sharing information from the Universal source, and being aware of the effects our actions have on our personal lives and the lives of others.
This amazing YouTube video is the gift of an artist to express her innermost thoughts and feelings and connect deeply with the heart of her audience. Kseniya Simonova is a gifted messenger with an amazing talent. You can’t help but appreciate the creative genius that you will have the privilege to watch as she shares her gifts.
At what age do you think someone took notice of her abilities to draw in the sand, and helped her develop her talents? We all have hidden talents that are meant to be used, shared, and enjoyed to keep our spirits healthy. Do you know what your talents are? Are you enjoying time on a regular basis to develop your gifts?
Enjoy this video as a bit of inspiration and art appreciation!
The KG Curl exercises is a wonderful warm-up exercise for any Pilates or fitness workout. It can really help you learn how to get more bend out of your body to achieve a good curled up position. The result… more work in your abdominal muscles, and less strain in your neck!
Use the exercise tips on this video to help you improve your ab curl position for Pilates Matwork exercises like the Hundred, Roll Up, Neck Pull, and Teaser. And at the gym, this easy-to-do KG Curl exercise can help improve your technique for sit-ups on an incline bench,  crunches on a ball, and with all your ab training exercises during aerobics class.
Have Fun Improving your Ab Strength with the KG Curl!
Timeless wisdom to believe and achieve success anything and everything that you desire in life.
Napoleon Hill shares the wisdom he learned from the billionaire Andrew Carnegie more than 100 years ago. This is an excellent way to get your New Year’s resolutions off to a great start! And well worth watching on a regular basis as a reminder of these principles of success.
Grab a notebook
Jot down the thoughts that stick in your brain
Follow these success principles
Enjoy the rewards from your efforts
What are YOUR Goals to Achieve and Intentions for Giving in 2010?
Check Out This Hot Salsa Dancer – She’s Discovered the Secret to Living a Great Life!
WOW! I get goosebumps every time I watch this clip. We are never too old to move well, enjoy the benefits of strength and flexibility, and have complete control over our body! I wonder what age she was when she started taking dance lessons? She could have been 5 or 75!  How fun to be eighty years old, loving it, and truly having the skills to enjoy life!!
I wonder if she does Pilates too? I know that this is why I’m doing Pilates! Please, oh pleeease… let me be this active, healthy, and fit when I’m eighty!
Watching this, you’ll be able to share and celebrate her success, and perhaps be inspired to follow your own path to a Fit and Fabulous Life!
We can ALL be, ALL that we can be! Get out there and go for it!
Check out this video, it’s definitely worth watching for health inspiration. Enjoy!
