You are stuck at home. You feel your quad muscles slowly diminishing as you are limited with the weights you have at-home right now. Thanks to this viral pandemic. But I'm here to show you how to build strong quads at home! It's a frustration for many to build quad strength, let alone during these stay-at-home order's. I know a lot of people are still working out at home until Covid-19 settles down again, and it becomes very limiting with...
https://youtu.be/NnqTfmokHys Home Gym Tour #barngym #homegymtour sheStrength founder, Anna Woods, gives us a tour of her barn gym in rural Kansas where she trains clients, teaches virtual classes and runs her fitness business. In case you were wondering what the inside of my gym space looks like, here's the full tour by Garage Gym Life Media!! I also provide behind the scenes stories about how I acquired a few of my home gym secondhand pieces at garage sales and on...
https://youtu.be/Q74JO2GSzWw Amid the shutdowns and mandated closings of public places to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, personal trainers, group fitness instructors, and health coaches are among those whose livelihoods are in uncharted territory (have taken an unexpected turn). In this live webinar, The American Council on Exercise facilitated an engaging discussion with this panel of experts in online coaching to help you quickly convert your business and revenue to an online service model. Links to each platform: Flight Wellness (https://www.flightlivefitness.com/ No1...
https://youtu.be/FLI8mPzJlZM As families shelter in place together, keeping active is a great way to spend family time, decrease stress, and improve overall health – not to mention that it burns a lot of energy. Turn those online video sessions into a family affair. Family fitness experts will share tips to develop engaging and time-efficient programming to support clients who want to or need to exercise as a family – and have fun while doing it! Speaker's Include: Brett Klika, CSCS, CEO of...
When teaching a client a new skill, as a personal trainer, you have to find the perfect balance of challenge and also success. You want to get your client a win! You want the client to be pushed outside his or her normal comfort zone, but also want the skill to be modified enough to be completed within a few tries. I also tell clients "we are going to get a win today!" This means I am setting you...
Tess is demonstrating a toe-loading drill in lateral stance. Implementing the 2nd phase of a pitch, right before take-off and release. I stole this idea from @Fosterfastpitch on IG. And we have started adding it into your workout routines with various loading patterns. The concept is learning to load the toe and use the driving legs to force the weight shift through the feet and up the chain, through the glutes/hips. Toe-loading activates glutes, glutes are POWER. So learning...
I've been working with several women who LOVE running, but want to add strength training to their weekly routine to maintain upper body strength. We have discussed how running has specific movement patterns and we should coordinate strength movements to better build those patterns. For example, bench press with single arm in running position on one's back, BETTER mimics running, as opposed to your typical barbell bench press with 2 arms and legs on the floor with the back arched....
Being a fast pitch softball pitcher involves many elements of athleticism. One of the biggest pieces of addressing athleticism, and therefore increasing speed of the pitch, relates to power. Building power in an athlete starts from the ground up. One of the most overlooked pieces of creating power is foot-load. The athlete has to be able to create and generate force through proper foot-loading before it can translate and travel up the chain as power and speed. Any slight...
https://youtu.be/XQizywateb0 I am almost positive you haven't tried this workout yet!! If you have a TRX system or 2 straps you can hang over a post or a playground monkey bar set, then you can do this workout. The goal is to complete 3 supersets of 10 curls, 10 tricep extensions. Rest 1 minute and repeat. The key to targeting these 2 muscle groups is keeping neck/traps relaxed and finding the right angle of the torso and feet. Arms should be...
https://youtu.be/6yyDk3eXT6s After a year and a half of working core strength, shoulder stability, and timing, Kennedy, 17, got her first assisted bar muscle up! She has big dreams of competing in CrossFit and we are slowly working our way to that goal! Kennedy follows my sheSTRENGTH programming at home, and at my barn a few days a week. We focused on scap stability, shoulder positioning, grip strength, core control, hip strength/power, pulling strength and positions, and endurance. —— To find out more...
