100 Years Ago: 1924 Committees on the minstrel show to be given at the East Auburn Grange Hall on Thursday evening are working zealously to make it a success. The snappy colored circle will undoubtedly be the main attraction. It will include Imogene Hackett, Alice Berry, Martha Clark, Norma Lowe, Charles Allen, Fred Sargent, Elmer […]
This Core Move Will Help You Get Better At Pushups Julia Sullivan, CPT
Whatever flavor of fitness you personally prefer, chances are you re no stranger to pushups. Requiring just your body and a sizable helping of motivation, the classic move ignites the muscles in your chest, back, arms, core, and legs simultaneously. Because of this, pushups have the ability to create a serious total-body burn.
But if you’re already doing pushups on the regular, you probably
also know that the struggle can be real like really real. Heck, even as a woman who prides herself on being able to pull a 300-pound bar up off the ground, I often exclude pushups from my strength workouts out of sheer embarrassment of my lack of skillz.
Your first step in getting
better at pushups? Mastering perfect form, one single pushup at a time.
Here’s how to execute a flawless rep:
Begin in high plank position with shoulders over wrists, chest broad, core engaged, and toes tucked. Body should form a straight line from shoulders to heels. Make sure neck is in-line with spine, shoulders are pulled back and away from ears, and glutes and quads are engaged, as well. This is your starting position.
On an inhale, bend elbows to lower chest down toward floor, squeezing shoulder blades together and keeping core, quads, and glutes engaged. Upper arms should form 45-degree angles with sides.
When it comes to weight loss the healthy, sustainable, not-gimmicky kind it s tempting to want a quick fix with as few changes as possible. For many, that means turning to products (think: exercise programs, trendy how-to books, or commercialized foods and drinks), none of which offer safe, lasting results.
Real talk: The road to actual, sustainable weight loss is pretty unsexy and not-so-straightforward, Liz Davis, a clinical exercise physiologist in Columbus, Ohio, tells
Health. Weight loss is largely dependent on the balance between the calories you consume and the calories you expend, she says.
What this means: Despite how buff your cycling instructor or the Instagram model peddling a skinny tea looks, trendy products alone won t contribute to weight loss. Rather, it depends on your ability to maintain a continuous calorie deficit which basically means that you re ingesting fewer calories than your body needs to maintain general body functions. Of course, that also means i
Resistance Training Is All About Building Strength Julia Sullivan, CPT
I m going to go out on (a very short) limb and say that, if you ve been working on your fitness, you ve probably heard the term
resistance training by now. You ve probs even heard it used interchangeably with
strength training perhaps. They are, in fact, very similar to the whole rectangle and square sitch you learned about in geometry class.
That is to say, strength training is a type of resistance training, but not all resistance training is going to help you get stronger. “So, you can think of strength training as a subset of resistance training, in which you have a specific goal in mind, says Sohee Lee, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and