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Fitness Misconception #3 (Best Exercise)

March 7, 2011 – 10:35 am

I’m often asked, “what’s the best exercise for…” The truth is that there are many great exercises out there for any given muscle group, and no one exercise is the end-all as far as exercise goes…

By Melissa Allen | Posted in Exercise Programming, Health and Fitness, Strength Training, Weight Lifting | Also tagged barbell curl, bicep exercise, dumbbell curl, Exercise, muscle group | Comments (1)

Wall Push-ups (Fit Tip)

February 16, 2011 – 11:36 am

Continuing with exercises you can easily do at home, today’s post is on wall push-ups. This is definitely a beginner exercise, but great if you’re in need of building strength so that you can advance to the standard floor push-up…

By Melissa Allen | Posted in Exercise Programming, Health and Fitness, Strength Training, Women, Women and Exercise | Also tagged Exercise, push-up, strength, wall push-up | Comments (0)

Fitness Tip: Rotational Plank on Ball

January 14, 2011 – 10:49 am

If you’ve been following this month’s posts, you know stability ball exercises are what we’re focusing on and today’s exercise is the rotational plank on the ball. This is considered more of an advanced exercises for starters, and you start by placing the ball on the floor…

By Melissa Allen | Posted in Exercise Programming, Health and Fitness, Stability Ball Exercises, Strength Training | Also tagged core muscles, plank, rotational plank exercise, stability ball exercises | Comments (0)

Fitness Tip: Stability Ball Wall Squat

January 3, 2011 – 12:21 pm

This marks the first post of this month’s series on stability ball exercises. The wall squat is a basic exercise that’s simple to perform and targets all the leg muscles…

By Melissa Allen | Posted in Exercise Programming, Strength Training | Also tagged leg exercise, leg muscles, squat, stability ball, wall squat | Comments (0)

Fitness Tip: Workout in the Park

December 29, 2010 – 12:28 pm

Instead of doing your same old workout in the gym or at home, mix it up by going to your local park and improvise. There’s probably monkey bars, slides, and other things for the kids to play on, and you, too, can be a kid with your exercises…

By Melissa Allen | Posted in Fit Lifestyle, Health and Fitness, Strength Training | Also tagged gym, local park, pull-ups, shock your body, workout | Comments (1)

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