For the first time in months, I have nothing going this weekend. No races. No events. No gigs for Alan. No travel. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Can you tell I’m excited? Alan and I have had something going each weekend since March. We’ve been to Lake Havasu, Redlands, and San Diego for events that he announced. […]
Total Body Functional Workout with Special Focus on Strong Lean Legs
Stuck as I am on using alteration in my titles, I almost used the word “luscious” as a descriptive term in the title. Then my feminist right mind took over. I created this workout to complement the Amazing Arms and Shoulders workout. While both are total body workouts, which are perfect for someone like me […]
Functional Workout for Amazing Arms and Shoulders!
If you are time challenged like I am, you appreciate a workout that does it all. Because I spend a lot of my available training time running, I need a workout that can work my total body in a functional way, challenge my core, balance the strength in my legs without overdoing it, and, as […]
Friday Fitness: 2 Workouts. Get Your Vanity On and Learn to Function
Huh? Yes I know the title defies all SEO (search engine optimization) rules, but I was finding it hard to describe these workouts in 70 characters or less. What we have here is two workouts that I did with my Superball class this week. The first one, the Vanity Workout, focused on individual muscle groups, […]
Friday Fitness: The SuperBall Workout!
Now that I have created my half marathon plan and I am logging all my workouts, you will occasionally see on my Strength Day something that says “SuperBall Workout.” It is a class that I teach to a group of men and women who are mostly age 60 and above. We do a variety of […]
Wednesday Workout: Putting the Functional in Fitness
In last week’s Wednesday Workout post, we discussed the definition of functional fitness and why it is so important to your physical well being. In a nutshell, functional exercises focus on doing real life movements in real life positions, so that your strength, balance, and stability translates to your real life. You exercise to teach […]
