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The Fit Girlโs Guide to Perfect Pull-Ups
Read More: The Fit Girlโs Guide to Perfect Pull-UpsItโs no joke that pull-ups are one of the best exercises ever devised. The pull-up is a true test of strength and endurance that just may be the single best move you can do to develop your back and biceps. Here, weโve invited two of our favorite experts โ Samantha Clayton, Vice President of Worldwide…
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5 Tried-and-True Ways to Relieve Tight Muscles
Read More: 5 Tried-and-True Ways to Relieve Tight MusclesTight muscles are no fun, but happen to the best of us every now and then โ especially after long days sitting stationary in a chair, hard-earned workouts or strenuous activity thatโs caused our muscles to be overworked. There are plenty of reasons why our muscles become tight and, most of the time, itโs an…
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6 Reasons Youโre Hitting a Fitness Plateau
Read More: 6 Reasons Youโre Hitting a Fitness PlateauI think all of us can relate to asking ourselves this question at one point or another: Have I hit a plateau? Whether itโs a lack of physical progress or a stagnant feeling in the weight room, many variables need to be taken into account before you land on a plateau. In the simplest terms,…
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The Best Cross-Training Exercises for Runners
Read More: The Best Cross-Training Exercises for RunnersWhy do you run? Maybe itโs for stress relief, to feel good, to burn calories, to build heart health or to support a bigger cause โ thereโs truly no wrong answer. Running can be an amazing way to support your mind, body, overall health, and even community. But, like any exercise, running comes with the…
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6 Ways to Do Inverted Rows at Home
Read More: 6 Ways to Do Inverted Rows at HomeIf youโre working out from home, the back muscles are probably some of the hardest to hit using traditional movementsย youโd do in the gym. Thankfully, with a bit of creativity, you can make inverted rows work. The inverted row is a pulling exercise that uses your own body weight as resistance. It works primarily your…
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How to Improve the Mind-Muscle Connection
Read More: How to Improve the Mind-Muscle ConnectionThink back to your last lifting workout โ were you 100 percent focused on the task at hand, or were you contemplating what to make for dinner, stewing about work or daydreaming about a vacation? Itโs easy to let your mind wander while doing an activity youโve done a thousand times before (more biceps curls…
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At home workouts, Bodyweight Workouts, Training Techniques for Women, Training Tips, Training Tips for Women
The Pros and Cons of Virtual Workouts
Read More: The Pros and Cons of Virtual WorkoutsWith the world slowly moving closer to a new normal in this post-pandemic era, one canโt help but wonder what to do about a gym membership now that they can actually leave the house. Gyms were hit hard during the height of the pandemic, and while many faithful members have flocked back to their favorite…
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Total Body Workouts, Training Technique, Training Techniques for Women, Weighted HIIT, Weighted Workouts
5 Ways to Use Chains in Your Workouts
Read More: 5 Ways to Use Chains in Your WorkoutsChains might be one of the most intimidating-looking fitness implements around, but theyโre good for much more than just draping the shoulders of muscle-bound bodybuilders on magazine covers.ย ย Hereโs how you can use these deviously simple tools to amp up five fundamental weight-training exercises. Barbell Bench Press โThe reason you might consider adding chains to…
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3 Exercises to Improve Your Skiing
Read More: 3 Exercises to Improve Your SkiingIn sports-specific training, it doesnโt get much more efficient than exercises that serve as twofers, doing double duty by decreasing injury risk while improving your sports performance. In skiing, the top twofers may be predictable if youโre a veteran on the slopes โ but ensuring youโre doing these moves properly can make or break your…
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How to Make Your Fitness Routine Excuse-Proof
Read More: How to Make Your Fitness Routine Excuse-ProofFitness is hard. Beyond the obvious difficulty of literally working out, forcing yourself to get up early, eating healthy and squeezing cardio into a busy schedule is no easy task. Add in stressful projects at work, weekly commitments, extra errands or a few days of travel, and pretty soon fitness is out of the picture.ย …
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Stability-Ball Exercises, Strength Training for Women, Total Body Workouts, Training Techniques for Women, Training Tips for Women
5 Functional Ways to Use a Bosu Ball
Read More: 5 Functional Ways to Use a Bosu BallNot sure what else to do with a Bosu ball besides crunches? Weโve got you! Here, health coach and virtual fitness studio owner Aimee Nicotera, MS, ACSM-certified exercise physiologist and AFAA-certified personal trainer helps you get the most bang from your Bosu. 1. Find Balance The ability to balance on one leg isnโt just important…
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How to Use Self-Hypnosis to Chill Out
Read More: How to Use Self-Hypnosis to Chill OutWhen you think of hypnosis, you probably picture a mustachioed magician with a swinging pocket watch who compels his subjects to cluck like a chicken upon awakening. But in antithesis to this Hollywood typecast, hypnosis actually is a valuable, research-supported tool used to harness the power of the brain. For athletes, it can be used…
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6 Killer Drop-Set Combinations to Exhaust Your Muscles
Read More: 6 Killer Drop-Set Combinations to Exhaust Your MusclesโGoing in one more round when you donโt think you can, thatโs what makes all the difference in your life.โย We donโt end up quoting legendary celluloid pugilist Rocky Balboa too often at Oxygen, but this one seemed kinda apropos, considering the topic. Thatโs because while he may have been making a point about boxing…
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12 Days of Gains, Ambassadors, Exercise Tips, Fitness Tips, Motivation, Training Techniques for Women
5 Ways to Stay Fit Over the Holidays
Read More: 5 Ways to Stay Fit Over the HolidaysI love the saying,ย โFailing to plan is planning to fail.โ If you donโt want to lose all the hard work youโve put into your training plan thus far, you must schedule your workouts. Because (unlike Christmas magic) they wonโt magically happen on their own. The key to staying fit over the holidays is coming up…
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Common Training Mistakes for 4 Main Muscle Groups
Read More: Common Training Mistakes for 4 Main Muscle GroupsYou train hard, rest well and fuel your body to a tee. Yet suddenly your results stall, regardless of your tenacity and dedication. Since youโre doing everything correctly in terms of scheduling and periodization, youโre most likely not overtraining. However, when it comes to form or function, the training that you are doing may be…
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Fitness Techniques, Functional, Functional Workout, Training Techniques for Women, Weight-Training, Weighted Workouts, Workout Techniques
7 Steps to a Perfect Power Clean
Read More: 7 Steps to a Perfect Power CleanOlympic lifts are a valuable tool for improving strength and athletic performance โ and as a side bonus, they also help develop crazy-good muscle shape, size and definition. In fact, one could argue that the power-clean portion of the clean-and-jerk is the best exercise ever devised.ย โThe clean is a functional movement used [routinely] in…
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Are Exercise Machines a Waste of Time?
Read More: Are Exercise Machines a Waste of Time?Iโm part of a generation that remembers the Bowflex and Total Gym television infomercials all too well. Back then, these were necessary staples in the fitness consumerโs gym, because they promised strength and cardiovascular training all in one โ a novel concept at the time. Iโve also come from a place in the last decade…
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Pull-Up Fitness Quest: Final Check-In
Read More: Pull-Up Fitness Quest: Final Check-InToday is the day! By now, you should be doubling the amount of pull-ups you started with. If not, guess what? Thatโs okay!ย While our quests have designated time periods, yours can continue! Keep stretching, stay consistent and donโt give up. If youโre finished with this quest, congratulations! You did it! Are you ready to start…
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Pull-Up Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: Pull-Up Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-InIf youโve been sticking to the plan, hereโs your Pull-Up Fitness Quest midpoint check-in! By now, pull-ups should no longer feel so scary and impossible. Youโre feeling comfortable with the bar, the movement and the mental blockade that itโs just โtoo hard.โ At this point you should be able to increase your max number of…
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7 Mistakes Youโre Making During Your Ab Routine
Read More: 7 Mistakes Youโre Making During Your Ab RoutineNo one ever said building a bulletproof core or sculpting six-pack abs would be easy. Even so, fitness junkies of all experience levels often make it even harder than it has to be without even realizing it. Since a strong core provides a solid base for virtually every other exercise and movement you do in…
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Study Finds Breathing Exercise Might Lower Blood Pressure
Read More: Study Finds Breathing Exercise Might Lower Blood PressureA small study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association reports that a particular breathing exercise might help prevent cardiovascular disease and improve athletic performance. High-Resistance Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST) is the practice of inhaling vigorously through a hand-held device that provides resistance. The study compares it to sucking hard through a…
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How to Perfect the Handstand Push-Up
Read More: How to Perfect the Handstand Push-UpThe handstand push-up (HSPU) isnโt just a fun party trick. Itโs a surefire way to look like a fitness rock star. However, it requires significant strength and stability prerequisites. Getting inverted (upside down) places demands on your entire body, top to bottom. You need stability in your midline and throughout your shoulder and wrist complex…
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4 Mobility Exercises to Improve Upper-Back Pain
Read More: 4 Mobility Exercises to Improve Upper-Back PainBecause of its tendency to be so achy-breaky, your lumbar area usually hogs all the spinal glory, but the thoracic spine (T-spine) is an important link in the chain and is perhaps the most disregarded area when it comes to mobility: Stiffness and lack of extensibility in the soft tissue surrounding the T-spine can cause…
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6 Daily Exercises to Improve Total-Body Mobility
Read More: 6 Daily Exercises to Improve Total-Body MobilityYour skeleton works wonderfully when everything is aligned, but as you go through life, your muscles develop and grow based on your habitual movement patterns, which often lead to imbalances. People try to correct these by working on flexibility โ passively working to achieve an extended range of motion. And flexibility is important, but you…
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How Mindfulness Can Enhance Athletic Performance
Read More: How Mindfulness Can Enhance Athletic PerformanceMindfulness is all about being intentional with our thoughts, behaviors and building a brain-body connection during a task. When used as a therapeutic technique, mindfulness helps bring awareness to the present moment to calm our mind, accept our feelings and be in tune with our bodily sensations. Mindfulness has been found to help you get…
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Six Common Training Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Read More: Six Common Training Mistakes and How to Fix ThemMaking a few simple changes to these six popular strength-training moves could be all you need to get great results. When you first started weight training, you probably paid close attention to form, noting how to sit, stand, hold a weight, angle your arms, and various other bits of positioning minutia that made an exercise…
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Take Your Workout To The Next Level
Read More: Take Your Workout To The Next LevelWith only a few minutes of preparation, you can improve each workout, lift heavier, train longer and get greater results by using these five warm-up protocols. When you’re crunched for time, it’s tempting to skip a warm-up and get right to training. But while your brain is ready to go, your body has not yet…
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Back Workouts, Back Workouts for Women, Training Techniques for Women, Training Tips for Women, Workouts for WomenSuper Gains With Supersets
Read More: Super Gains With SupersetsHere’s a quick and dirty way to train your flip side. Second only to legs, your back probably takes the most out of you when it comes to training. But unfortunately, you don’t always have tons of time to dedicate to working this massive muscle group. In those instances, a superset workout are your best…
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Total-Body Workouts for Women, Training Technique, Training Techniques for Women, Training Tips for Women, Workouts for WomenGet Even Stronger
Read More: Get Even StrongerCrank up your metabolic conditioning by adding these two CrossFit-adapted tweaks into your workouts and bump up your intensity and volume. Three sets of 10. Four sets of 12. Repeat that 20 times and call it a day. Weight training has been structured this way for decades. Written down on a sheet or committed to…
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Common Training Mistakes That Slow Progress
Read More: Common Training Mistakes That Slow ProgressSometimes a few simple tweaks to form and function are all you need to get your body — and your results — back on the fast track. You train hard, rest well and fuel your body to a tee. Yet suddenly your results stall, regardless of your tenacity and dedication. Since you’re doing everything correctly…
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Tweak Your Training For Better Results
Read More: Tweak Your Training For Better ResultsSometimes a few simple tweaks to form and function are all you need to get your body — and your results — back on the fast track. You train hard, rest well and fuel your body to a tee. Yet suddenly your results stall, regardless of your tenacity and dedication. Since you’re doing everything correctly…
