Tag: Glutes
New! Core Strength for Real People: Balance in the Hips
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! Strengthen your hips front to back and side to side with this innovative, progressive sequence that builds to dancer pose and tree pose. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Abductors & Adductors
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one challenges your inner thighs (adductors) and outer hips (abductors) while asking your core to work as an anchor. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet,…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Standing
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one challenges your core, glutes, and lower legs from a standing position. No mat needed—you may not even need to change your clothes, which means you can do this as a midday break. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Side Saddle
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! Here’s one of my favorite sequences—a unique challenge to your core and hips from a side-saddle start. Enjoy the preview above, and buy or rent the entire video at the Core Strength for Real People page. Better yet, subscribe, and for less…
New! Core Strength for Real People: Side Kicks & Bicycles
The first of the month means a new video is live at Core Strength for Real People! This one, a great complement to the several videos already available in the series, targets the glutes—the bane of many runners’ and cyclists’ existence. When these big, strong muscles aren’t working properly, you lose efficiency and invite problems…
Read: 12-Minute Core-Strength Yoga Sequence for Real People
Are you a real person? Me, too! I often feel pressed for time, and I certainly have a real body; that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t keep my core strong. I do that by taking and teaching Pilates classes and supplementing that with a home practice like this one I wrote up for Yoga Journal. Core strength is…
Everyday Yoga Excerpt: 5 Pre-Workout Warmup Poses
My friends at Yoga Journal will be running a nice series of Everyday Yoga excerpts over the next few weeks. While the book is for not just athletes but everyone, the excerpts are keyed to pre- and postworkout routines, and you can string them together to do a full home practice. We’re starting with a dynamic preworkout yoga—what…
Watch: FREE Pre-Run Yoga Sequence (aka Parking Lot Yoga)
Here’s a treat for you, thanks to my friends at Yoga Vibes: a FREE short video to get you warmed up for your run or workout. It will also work well as a stretch break during your day. Yoga Class Description Use this short online yoga sequence to get you ready for your next run.…
Ward Off Dead Butt with Yoga
It’s all in the butt; even the New York Times agrees. If you’ve had an overuse injury lately, you were probably advised to strengthen your glutes. These are the largest muscles in the body (I’m not saying your rear end is big, just saying the muscles are big relatively!), and when they aren’t working right,…