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18 Aug 2010Today I had a glut dominant workout as I rode my bike to work yesterday which always overuses my quads. The truth is most conventional activity is quad dominant- biking, running, walking, elliptical trainers, skipping, squatting. Anything in a linear pattern basically. In general people should practice a 1:2 quad to glut (hip extension) dominant [...]
Ava, my baby, turned 2 this weekend. Wow, after a weekend of 3 birthday parties, cake and wine I feel over sugared. I am definitely performing day 4 of the Baby Bump busy mom program using superset training today. She is thriving and often wants to be with me when I exercise on Monday at home with [...]
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14 Mar 2010Busy Mom Fitness
As we had been having such lovely weather last week I was able to fit a 15 minute “back deck” fat loss workout in outside, before racing off to pick up the girls from school and daycare. I felt energized and really worked up a good sweat. My busy mom fat loss circuit [...]
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1 Feb 2010Here is a little piece that was published int he New York Times regarding resistance training and concentration levels in older women.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/research/26exer.html?em. Wow I wonder if this can help with “Mommy Brain”. There are similar studies done on children as well, indicating physical activity improves concentration in the class room, so DO NOT CUT GYM TIME [...]
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25 Jan 2010Post Partum Abdominal Exercises
This week I was talking to my massage therapist and she said she had a post natal client with diastasis recti. She said she was doing crunches and her abdominal split was getting worse- she was 6 months post partum if I recall correctly.
First What is Rectus Diastasis? Wikipedia Definition It is the separation between the [...]
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