By Molly Magunga, MS ATC, CPT, CES Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about getting back into activity. There may be many reasons you haven’t been working out a lot lately. Did winter weather condition make running too risky? Did an injury sideline you for a while? Did you just haveContinue reading “Progressing Back into Activity”
Category Archives: Prevention
Heart Health
by Molly Magunga, MS ATC, CPT, CES Hello everyone! February is a month known for many things. It’s a month for love. A month for Black History Awareness. It is also American Heart Month, a month to focus on cardiovascular health. According to the World Health Organization, heart disease is the leading cause of deathsContinue reading “Heart Health”
Shovel Your Worries Away
by Molly Magunga, MS ATC, CPT, CES Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about proper shoveling techniques and how to structure your workouts to help prevent shoveling-related injuries. It’s that time of year again. There is a chill in the air. The days are still short. We never know if thereContinue reading “Shovel Your Worries Away”
Pull-Up Form
by Molly Magunga, CPT, BOC ATC, CES Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about the pull-up! Oh, the pull-up! This is one of the hardest strength moves to master. It’s just you fighting against your body weight and gravity, all while keeping your strongest muscles (your leg muscles) out of theContinue reading “Pull-Up Form”
Strength Training
by Molly Magunga, MS ATC, CPT, CES Hello Everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about strength training. Strength training goes by many different names, including resistance training and weight training. Just as it goes by many names, the structure looks completely different depending on your fitness goals and level of experience. ItContinue reading “Strength Training”
All in the Hips| Part 1: Mobility
by Molly Rausch, Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Athletic Trainer Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is the first of a two part series. Our topic for the next two weeks is going to be about your hips! This week will be focused on improving your hip mobility and next week isContinue reading “All in the Hips| Part 1: Mobility”
Cross Training
by Molly Rausch Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Athletic Trainer Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about cross training. Cross training is very wide and highly-variable term. The meaning of cross training is simply the practice of regularly mixing up your routine or doing workouts different than your normal activity orContinue reading “Cross Training”
Hip Hinge
by Molly Rausch, Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Athletic Trainer Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about the hip hinge. The hip hinge is a movement pattern that involves bending at the hips to flex forward. Unlike the squat; which involves relatively equal knee and hip movement, the hip hinge isContinue reading “Hip Hinge”
Foam Rolling
by Molly Rausch L1 Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Athletic Trainer Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about foam rolling. A lot of people are familiar with what foam rolling is in general, or at least, what a foam roller is. The technical term for foam rolling is called “self myofascialContinue reading “Foam Rolling”
Proper Foot Mechanics
by Molly Rausch L1 Personal Trainer and Certified Athletic Trainer Hello everyone! This week’s “Fitness Tip of the Week” is about proper foot posture and strike. Now that the weather is nice, people are strapping on those running shoes and hitting the pavement. The average person takes about 2,000 steps while walking a mile. ThatContinue reading “Proper Foot Mechanics”
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