Ted Talks Video: The Brain-Changing Benefits Of Exercise
February 24, 2021
Category: Exercise
Exercise-Avoidance Excuse Of The Month: February 2021
February 22, 2021
It’s Snowing. It’s Too Cold. It’s Windy and Miserable. Forget It.
Solution – Exercise Indoors
Irene Pastore, is a Certified Personal Trainer, fitness blogger, health educator, and speaker. She has 23 years experience teaching exercise in New York City. Read her bio on the About Page.
Fitness Quote February 2021
February 15, 2021
Aim For Progress – Not Perfection
Equipment of the Month: Peanut Stability Ball
February 15, 2021
EQUIPMENT OF THE MONTH: Peanut Stability Ball
Recommended Product: The Peanut is a good choice for older adults, pregnant women, rehab patients, or anyone who needs more stability than the standard exercise, ball during exercise.
Product Category: Core Strength, Balance and Stability.
How To Use It: The Peanut Stability Ball activates the core muscles and improves balance. Easier to control than the standard stability ball.
Portability: Remove the air from the ball, and you can carry it anywhere in a tote, or shopping bag. The inflated peanut shaped ball takes up more room than the standard size stability ball. You may need to purchase a pump, unless it’s included in the price.
Benefits: Excellent addition to a home gym. Cost effective. Offers a total body workout. Often includes exercise chart with purchase. The Peanut Stability Ball acclimates older adults to core balance training.
Fitness Level: Beginners, Seniors , Prenatal, Rehab
Type of Workout: Seated, prone, and supine exercises
Irene Pastore, is a Certified Personal Trainer, fitness blogger, health educator, and speaker. She has 23 years experience teaching exercise in New York City.. For her complete bio, visit the About Page.
May Is National Posture Month: Start Training Your Core
May 1, 2016
A Strong Core Improves Posture
The muscles that comprise your core are the abdominals, backside, hips, and back. Weakness in these muscles results in poor posture.
An fitness routine isn’t comprehensive unless it includes core strengthening exercises.
Poor Posture and Pain
Poor posture can lead to low back pain, inadequate breathing, digestive problems, neck pain, spinal disease, muscle imbalance, deficient sports performance, and quality of life issues.
Muscle Imbalance Pain
When your core muscles weaken from lack of exercise, your body signals you with discomfort, or pain. When muscles receive inadequate exercise, they become imbalanced. That means one muscle might be stronger, and overpower another.
You may often feel as though you have “pulled” a muscle. The sensation of pulling a muscle is called a muscle strain. Strains are mild to severe, and can take a few days, or several weeks to heal.
Winning Athletes
If you’re an athlete, you want to win. An athlete with a strong core, generates power through their core, not through their arms or legs. A weak core in an athlete leads to ineffective sports performance, injuries, and poor posture.
Succeed In Business
Good posture is important for business people, and political leaders. When you stand tall, you emanate confidence, and vigor.
In addition to affecting your image, perpetual slumping while standing or seated, eventually affects spinal health, and digestion.
Improve Quality of Life
Poor posture may result in chronic back pain. The pain might be so severe that you can’t sit down, or move efficiently. Chronic pain makes you irritable. When you become a long-term grouch, it affects your relationships with friends, family, and companion animals.
If you’re experiencing chronic pain from poor posture, the first step is to visit a healthcare provider and get a diagnosis. Exercising when you’re in pain, may make it worse.
Irene Pastore is a native New Yorker, health and fitness blogger, and personal trainer. Irene owns this website, and writes all the blog posts. For her complete bio, visit the About Page.
Trendy Gym Equipment: Cycling In A Hot Tub
April 16, 2016
What happens when you cross a stationary bicycle with a jacuzzi? You get an $18,000 cycling machine, called Fit Wet.
Fit Wet bikes are mounted inside individual cabinets that fill up with fresh, warm water in three minutes.
The manufacturer claims that Fit Wet burns more calories than stationary bikes, reduces cellulite, provides injury therapy, and eliminates skin toxins.
VINTAGE WATER CYCLING
The concept of water cycling isn’t new. Hydro cycles came about around 1890. Do-it yourself bicycle frames were mounted on pontoons, and fitted with propellers. The pedals provided power as the water bikes floated on water.
FIT WET ISN’T FOR EVERYONE
Aside from price, the Fit Wet hydro bicycle isn’t recommended if you fall into any one of these categories:
People under 4’9″ in height.
People under the age of 16 years old.
People who weight over 440 lbs.
Anyone without physician’s release.
People who have cardiovascular disease, heart failure, hypertension, or phlebitis.
People who have skin infections.
People who have tumors.
Happy Riding.
Irene Pastore is a native New Yorker, health and fitness blogger, and personal trainer. Irene owns this website, and writes all the blog posts. For her complete bio, visit the About Page.
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Vintage Hydrocycle An Early 20th Century Contraption
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