Trainer Tip #20: How much protein do you really need?

The purpose of a warm-up is to increase heart and respiration rate, increase tissue temperature, and psychologically prepare the individual for higher training intensities. Failure to warm up can result in injury of unprepared muscles. Your warm-up should last between 5-10 minutes at a low-to moderate intensity. When you exercise and your muscles work harder,…

Trainer Tip #10: Sitting for long periods of time? Make sure to stretch your hip flexors, which are a group of muscles that allow your leg to concentrically accelerate hip flexion and external rotation. (In layman’s terms: they allow you to do things like sit and walk. Kind of important.) Two ways to stretch these…

Planking is so much more than holding your chest and buttocks off the ground. Here’s a checklist to go through: Pretend there is a straight line from your ears to your toes (or knees). This line dissects your shoulders and hips as it makes it’s way down. One common error in planks is the tendency…

Line ten people up and ask them to show you a plank. More than likely, most of them know their toes or knees should be on the ground. But some will hold themselves up on their hands, and others on their elbows. What’s the difference? The difference lies in which muscles you want to activate…