Stretching
5 Exercises For Spring
Understanding how your body responds to exercise is like how it feels when you press on the gas pedal in your car and you get up ...
Four TRX Suspension Training Exercises You Can Do at Home
The benefits of training with a TRX Suspension Training System for just about everyone are undeniable. From hard core athletes to traveling executives to the busy ...
8 Quick and Effective Band Exercises
Many of us spend endless hours on a computer or stuck behind a desk each day, but our bodies are meant to move! Exercise bands (especially ...
Get Moving! 5 Ways to Work Your Core
Here are fives ways to help you develop the waist that you've been working towards. Once you've already begun to clean up your diet, your next ...
Real FitDay Users Share: What Was Your "A-Ha" Moment?
What sparked you to embark on your fitness journey? For many of us, it was one moment or incident - the "a-ha" moment - that got ...
New Year, New You: 6 Easy Ways to Get Moving
Well, the New Year has arrived and you're sitting down thinking about how you're going to make this year the best by getting fit. You can ...
10 Tools to Help Keep You on Track
1. Good Pair of Shoes Make sure you have a pair of shoes that fit you well and are made for the type of activity you plan ...
4 Back Stretching Exercises for Women
These back stretching exercises can be used to loosen your back muscles, which will reduce pain and make it much more comfortable to move around.
How to Stretch Out Sore Back Muscles
Knowing some simple steps to get you out of pain and prevent future pain can be essential when suffering with sore back muscles. Committing to a ...
How to Know if You're Doing Proper Sciatica Exercises
Sciatica exercises, if done properly, can stop sciatica pain in its tracks. The problem is that most people start with the wrong form and the wrong ...
Is Working Out with a Pulled Groin Muscle a Bad Idea?
Once you experience a pulled groin muscle, it is too late to think about stretching. Often the key to preventing injuries such as this is as ...
3 Ways to Stretch a Pulled Groin
A pulled groin can really be a painful experience, and a nagging ordeal because it actually interferes with your ability to do normal activities properly, including ...
How to Exercise with a Pulled Groin
A pulled groin muscle is challenging enough on its own, but if you want to exercise with it, you have to watch out for additional factors. ...
3 Groin Stretches to Try before Working Out
Groin stretches constitute an ideal means to help prevent injury to your groin when you're working out. You want to stretch the adductor muscles of your ...
The 5 Most Effective Calf Stretches
Calf stretches can open the tight network of lower leg muscles that sometimes seize up after overuse or other underlying factors. You may forget to give ...
The Best Way to Stretch Your Quadriceps
Taking time to stretch your quadriceps muscles is important both before and after an intense workout. When you do so, you decrease the chances of injuries ...
Four Stretches for after Working Out
After working out the last thing you probably want to do is spend time stretching. It is already difficult to find time to get into the ...
Should I Be Stretching after Working Out?
Stretching after working out is a highly recommended practice. The benefits of stretching before a workout are often discussed, emphasizing its role in injury prevention. When ...
Knee Pain: When is it a Serious Problem?
If you have knee pain, it could indicate a variety of problems. Your knee pain could be nothing more than transient pain from overuse. Conversely knee ...
4 Effective Hamstring Stretches
If the backs of your legs feel tight, you probably have tight hamstrings. Tight hamstrings are very common and doing hamstring stretches can help you to ...
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DDP Yoga: Do the Results Match the Hype?
Yoga has become one of the most popular forms of exercise in the Western world. More and more studios are offering Yoga classes, with many unique ... Read More »
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How to Get Better Balance
Building better balance is like building muscle in that it takes practice, attention and time. Balance is a learned skill for many, not everyone is born ... Read More »
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Three Stretch Routine Myths to Ignore
During this time of year many people are looking to add an exercise routine to their lifestyle, one thing that has been known to come with ... Read More »
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Three Back Stretches for Your Upper Back
Back pain can be debilitating, especially when you're trying to be physically active to reduce chronic disease risks, maintain a healthy weight, or perform well for ... Read More »
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Five Stretches to Improve Posture
Unless we fight it, gravity always wins. The normal S-shaped curve to our spine becomes shorter and more compressed over time if we let it, by ... Read More »
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The Best Back Stretches for Back Pain Relief
Back pain, specifically lower back pain, is the number one pain complaint from adults in the U.S. While some people have legitimate injuries, most often, ... Read More »
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Four Ways to Relieve Knee Pain
The knee is a very complex joint and necessary in most of our every day activities. If you've been experiencing knee pain for an extended period ... Read More »
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How to Stretch for Dancing
Dancers should incorporate stretching to maintain the high levels of flexibility needed for their art as well as to increase physical strength and endurance while avoiding ... Read More »
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How to Stretch Your Arms
After a workout session where your arms were utilized, it's important that you move through some basic stretching exercises to loosen the muscle, improve flexibility and ... Read More »
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5 Sciatica Exercises for Pain Relief
The term sciatica describes the symptoms of leg pain, tingling or weakness that originate in the lower back and travel through the buttock and into the ... Read More »
