The push-up could be called a powerhouse of a body weight exercise. The push-up works almost every muscle of the body. During a push-up you are working your chest, deltoids, triceps, core, glutes and legs. Now the push-up seems like a pretty simple exercise. Get into a plank position, lower your …
Fall into Fitness
The Fall is here. The leaves are beginning to change colors, it’s beginning to get colder, and the sun is starting to go down sooner. As this is a beautiful time of year, it can make training a little more difficult. Staying motivated in your training in the Fall can become difficult. Here is how to …
A Beginner’s Guide to the College Fitness Center: Exercise Principles
Half of the fun in working out is using your creativity to come up with the workouts in the first place. As long as you have the underlying principles in place, the methods that you choose to achieve your goals can be customized to fit your interests. Exercise Principles Specificity: Exercising …
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Getting Back to Fitness Safely
You may be wondering how long it will take to get back to your Pre-Covid fitness level, and you’re not alone. You may have been off for 2-3 months or you may not have returned to activity yet. If you are like the majority of people, it was near impossible to stay on track with your fitness. Now, …
Beginners Guide to College Fitness
Walking into the gym for your first time can be a little bit intimidating. In one corner there’s two guys wearing tank tops doing bicep curls in front of the mirror, the other corner is a large group of girls all doing a bodyweight circuit in perfect unison, and somewhere there’s a human who is …
Time To HIIT The Gym
It’s time to talk about a lot of people’s least favorite part of exercising, cardio. It has been drilled into our minds that running countless miles is the only way to do cardio. However, this is not the case. There is a form of training called HIIT. This stands for high-intensity interval training. …
Stretching is for the Strong
Do you wake up with body aches? A large portion of people wake up in the morning with body pain and most of us don't know how to get rid of the pain. Most people believe that you should only stretch before or after exercise, but a quick daily stretch first thing in the morning can be extremely …
At Home Workouts For Everyone
Like most people I have a love/hate relationship with working out and lack motivation to do so a lot of the time. Growing up I was accidentally active as I danced 6 days out of the week for the joy of it not really caring for the health benefits. Now that I’m older and well past my “kick your leg up …