Posts tagged: Stretches

The Proper Way to Stretch

Flexibility is one of the most neglected aspects of fitness and should be practiced weekly. Two to three times would be a reasonable amount of sessions to solely concentrate on increasing the range of motion at all your joints

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How Flexible Are You?

What will increased flexibility do for you? Stretching increases physical efficiency and performance. It also decreases the susceptibility of injury

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Lower Body Stretches

You should stretch both before and after your workout and make sure your muscles are warm (i.e., stretch after you warm up). Following are some common stretches for your lower body including your quads, hamstrings, glutes, calves and hips.

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Pilates vs. Yoga

When people speak of the physical benefits of exercise, they tend to focus on the three S’s: strength, stamina and slimming. With this in mind, their training programs usually consist of weight lifting to build muscle.

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The Power of Pilates

An estimated 6 million people across the country are now strengthening their bodies and minds, and losing weight, with the help of pilates exercises, the fastest growing fitness trend in decades.

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Benefits of Flexibility Training

Flexibility is a joint’s ability to move through a full range of motion. Flexibility training (stretching) helps balance muscle groups that might be overused during exercise or physical activity or as a result of bad posture.

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Which Pilates is Which

While Pilates was undoubtedly a man ahead of his time, the science of exercise has evolved throughout subsequent decades

Tennis fitness

Tennis is a brilliant game and for a number of surprising reasons. For starters, it’s enormous fun. Secondly you can do it with friends and enjoy a bit of catch-up all at the same time and thirdly, it can help you build a rock-hard body, toned legs and firm arms.

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