Tag Archives: core strength

Blog 2000 & Roller Skating: Check It Out!

This is my 2000th article posted here at Families.com. I started with the first batch of bloggers back in 2005. Fitness was my primary blog and I’ve since taken on Marriage and Baby, but my first love – fitness, remains. I thought about doing a retrospective here for my 2000th blog, but instead, I wanted to talk about a new passion that I’ve got and spend some more time exploring it. So I hope you’ll join me here for my 2000th blog and Roller Skating. The Fun Way To Get Exercise As many of my regular readers may know, I’ve … Continue reading →

Puh-Lah-Teez – Constructive Contradictions

Everything about Pilates is a contradiction and yet, it’s not. It’s a difficult and often times troubling workout that really kicks you in the pants. It looks hard and at the same time, it doesn’t. For years, I used to dance and I loved dancing – everything from ballet to jazz to modern and more. I still love to dance, but I don’t train for it professionally. Have you ever watched a group of dancers and wondered how what they did could really be so hard? It doesn’t necessarily look hard – until it does. The same description can be … Continue reading →

Yoga & Yoga Fitness Balls

More and more, people are making yoga a part of their exercise routine and you should too. The secrets to yoga are being discovered as more people practice what is considered one of the more ancient forms of exercise. A yoga ball – or stability ball – is a great part of the yoga exercise routine and it helps to make your routine interesting and fun. The right equipment can produce great results and using a stability ball can really provide new ways to improve your routine, enhance your movements and focus your health and fitness. When you use a … Continue reading →

Medicine Balls – Ideal For Home Workouts

What’s a medicine ball? It’s a smaller, more compact form of balance ball that expands your traditional number of exercise options by increasing resistance, balance, form and focus. Among the exercises you can do with a medicine ball: Squats Twists Sit-ups Crunches Lunges Much, Much More How You Use Them Medicine balls come in many different weight sizes from the 1 lb. to the 10 lb. Personally, I like the 4 lb medicine ball because you can work on posture and flexibility without over straining your muscles. You can also use it to help tighten and firm up your core … Continue reading →

Do You Bosu?

Do you know what a bosu ball is? The bosu is a great fitness tool that is both challenging and engaging for your home workout or at the gym. A bosu is a half round ball on a flat surface. The texture of the top half of the bosu is like that of a balance ball. The idea of the bosu is to use it to engage your core muscles to maintain your balance while performing various exercises including push-ups, squats, bicep curls, triceps curls and more. The first time I used a Bosu ball I was working out with … Continue reading →

Pointing at our Posture

We’ve talked about posture here before. We’ve talked about listening to our mothers and our grandmothers who told us to sit up straight were doing more than nagging us, they were trying to drill into us a healthy form of behavior that pays off throughout our lifetime. How, do you ask? Well, let me share this little nugget of information with you: Our good posture is the result of natural skeletal balance that is maintained by muscles strong enough to hold us upright. It is impossible for a person to have good posture and not be relatively fit. Good posture … Continue reading →