Happy Monday, FitFam! The weather is beautiful, summer is coming and my shoulders are getting WORKED today! One of my Instagram friends (@gogreenfit) whose goal is to become the strongest man in the world posted this move using the bosu and the stability ball a few months back and I have been thinking about trying [continue reading]
Getting Shredded Requires Sweating! Many people have this idea that to lose weight they have to spend 45 minutes on every piece of cardio equipment in the gym in one day. This is exhausting to your body, boring for you, and painful to watch. Please stop telling yourself you have to burn 1,000 calories on [continue reading]
I don’t do cardio often, but when I do…. If you want a super effective way to burn fat fast, try high-intensity-interval-training (HIIT) a couple times a week. It will get your heart rate and your metabolism in high gear. Combine it with weight training for a great strength-building/fat loss program. If you’re in maintenance [continue reading]
**Just added a bonus move to this sequence that you can try** I used to think that the only way to get my abs looking really good was to do 5 different exercises each time I trained them. While doing multiple exercises is effective when you’re targeting the various ab layers, you can also be [continue reading]
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Here are two killer core moves I just did – post-Turkey day Ab-shredding sesh. Move 1: Ball Pikes – hands on the bench, feet on the ball in plank position. Using your core, come into a pike, keeping your balance. Return to start. Repeat 10-12. Move 2: Pass-Thrus - hold [continue reading]
Holiday Fit Challenge It’s almost Thanksgiving – and however you choose to celebrate this year, Betty Rocker and the lovely Jen Heward of Life Altering Fitness (Auburn, CA) have teamed up to bring you our Holiday Fit Challenge that you can do absolutely anywhere in the world you are! This challenge will: 1. Give your [continue reading]
I just wanted to share a move with you that absolutely destroys me (in the best way haha) every time I do it – my form is still a work in progress on them, but that’s exactly why I keep working on it. Move of the day: Decline Pushup The decline push up is a [continue reading]
This is a fun workout I’ve been playing around with lately as an alternative to regular tabatas. If you’re not familiar with the concept of “tabata” it’s a specific format for high intensity interval training (HIIT) that employs a sequence of 20 second work periods followed by 10 seconds of rest over a 4-minute period. [continue reading]
Single arm kettlebell snatches and one arm balancing rows are just 2 amazing exercises that really help strengthen your lateral/extenal shoulder rotators and posterior chain. Besides cooking gluten free and low glycemic index healthy fitness food, working out and inventing green smoothies, I worked for many years structurally realigning athletes and fitness freaks using manual, [continue reading]
A great circuit you can do with kettlebells that will get your heart pumping and work your entire body. Warm-Up: Repeat 2-3 times 20 each leg: Walking lunges with high knees 20 each leg: Step ups on a bench, fast 10 pushups Workout: Repeat 4 times Single-leg Deadlift Extension Single leg Reach Renegade Rows with [continue reading]