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Fitness Fridays #47: Weights Before Dates!
You are probably wondering what I mean by “Weights Before Dates.” At some point in our lives, we have all been on a date (s). Some good, some bad, some great. It is something that most single people do. We might quit a job, move to a new location, change our attitudes. However, most of ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #45: The Truth about the Lat Pull-Down!
Hope all is well with you. I would like to give a shout out to all those affected by Hurricane Sandy. My prayers are with you. To my hometown of Staten Island, New York who lost many homes and lives. You will come back stronger than ever. New Yorkers are tough and when things look ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #42: Wave the Magic Wand!
My bags are packed and I am heading out to Albuquerque, New Mexico for the next few months. I am excited to be going to a place that has so much to offer. *Open space, Organic food, Hot Air Ballooning, Great Biking and Hiking and an opportunity to change the lives of the people I ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #41: “Up In Arms”
When it comes to exercise/ injuries one the least thought about is the wrists and forearms. This has me “Up in Arms.” Here is why? We use our wrists, hands and forearms for so many daily functions: taking care of our teeth, driving our car, using our computers, etc. Playing sports and activities from baseball, ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #40: Absolute Abdominals
In the fitness world the word ABS. is still very powerful. So called fitness gurus will make false claims that their exercise program will give you 6 pack abs. When one sees fitness models both men and women with great bodies, many dream about having what they have. For ninety-nine percent of the population, it ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #39: Three for the Price of One!
When it comes to exercise having a variety is always good. In today’s Fitness Friday segment #39, you have not one, not two but three exercises to do. I am sure you will enjoy all three. As you click on the video, Http://www.FireYourDiet.com you will see that strengthening the shoulders can be fun, painless and ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #38: Stress Buster
When it comes to reducing stress I always have open ears. You would be amazed as to what people will do to cope with stress. About 15 years ago when I was doing personal training and rehab therapy I was introduced to a device called the B.O.I. N. G. Based upon the scientific principles of ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #37: Get the knots out!
Have you ever stretched your muscles and still feel tight? I certainly have. For some of us stretching is not enough. I will admit that I am one of those guys who likes stretching and even enjoys a 2 hour yoga class every week. What I discovered was my body needed a little more. I decided that ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #36: Go To Sleep!
Sleep is one of the most important things we as humans do. In fact 30 percent of life is spent sleeping. Having a restful sleep is imperative to recovery from any day. S0 many people toss and turn and wake up all night long. I remember in college one of my friends named Lumpy used ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #35: Oh My Aching Feet!
How often have you had foot pain. Ladies if you have worn heels, you know what I am talking about. The pain can be unbearable. On Sunday afternoons, after wearing baseball spikes for 5 hours, my feet are in pain. I pack them in ice. Not everyone enjoys ice like I do. For Fitness Friday, ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #34: Will you go for A Walk with me?
Walking is now the craze. In the eighties it was running. Now with the baby boomers in their 60’s, hips and knees shot, walking has become big!! Do I agree with it? If you have a lot of weight on your body, I would ask you to choose walking in a pool, riding a bike, ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #33: Do you have Good Range of Motion in your Shoulders
So many people have tight shoulders. I have seen kids, teens, adults, seniors and athletes with limited Range of Motion (R.O.M.) There are many reasons for limited R.O.M. in the shoulders: Any movement that has been done for long periods of time /years can cause problems/ Years of weight training,, throwing a baseball, working on ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #32: What is Rock Tape?
Are you enjoying the Olympics? The dedication these athletes have is amazing. If you have watched the Swimming, Volleyball, Weight Lifting and Running, you will notice that many of the athletes are wearing tape. All different colors and it is no ordinary tape. It is called *ROCKTAPE* What is Rock tape? Rock Tape is ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #31: One Peck at a time!
Strengthening your Chest does not have to strain your shoulder like the Bench Press. Using a Medicine Ball and a Swiss Ball is safe way to train your Pecs. Has your trainer showed you this exercise?... Read more →Fitness Fridays #30:Having a Ball with your Rotator Cuff!
It is Fitness Friday and the exercise I have for you is Stretching and Strengthening the Rotator Cuff. Using a light medicine ball- 3-10 lbs is all that you need. The movement is simply lying on the floor and taking the medicine ball with both hands and rotating in and out with straight arms. Most ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #29: Crunch Time!
It is an exciting weekend. I enjoy celebrating my Birthday Weekend with people. I welcome, clients, friends, family and those I do not know to join any or all parts of my 6th annual Joltin-Joe Birthday weekend. Friday July 20st-Organic Dinner at Angelica’s Kitchen on East 12th Street in New York City- 7 pm. Saturday ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #28: Standing Tall
Welcome to Fitness Friday! I have a great exercise to end your week and begin the weekend. Now that summer is in full swing, people are on their feet more than anytime during the year. I see more people walking and enjoying the outdoors. Standing Tall One of my pet peeves is that so many ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #27: Dribbling a Swiss-Ball
It is time for Fitness Friday and I have fun exercise that you can do with your children or grandchildren. Almost every child likes to play with a ball. When the ball is colorful, the children are even more excited. Fitness should be fun and keeping it simple is the answer. As you watch the ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #26: Kiss the Wall
It is Fitness Friday and I have a great exercise for you. As with all strengthening exercises, I always provide a specific stretching exercise for strengthening movements. Today’s exercise is the Front Shoulder Raise The Front Shoulder Raise is a strengthening exercise. This exercise is an isolation exercise which entails shoulder flexion. It primarily works ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #25: Side Lateral Raise
Welcome to Fitness Fridays! Todays episode features an exercise that most people have tried at some point in their life. it is called the Side Lateral Raise. I have seen it done in hard core gyms, fitness centers, on college campuses, physical therapy centers. As many of you know, I teach my clients that form is ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #24:Time to Pull-Over!
It is Fitness Friday and I have a fantastic exercise for you. It is called the Pull-Over. One of the best exercises you can do for building upper strength and endurance. As you watch the video on http://www.FireYourDiet.com You will see how to stretch your upper body in a safe, scientific and effective manner. To ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #23: Beware-Here Comes the Frog!
I often hear people in the fitness world talk about having a strong core. Does this mean performing lots of abdominal exercises? Absolutely not! Having strong a core does constitute the abdominals but one of the most neglected areas of the core is the Erector Spinae or the low back. Go into any gym or ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #22:Take it on the Chin!
As a recovering Physical Education Teacher, I remember certain fitness tests that were required by law. Some of them were a complete joke like the sit-up test which is all about how fast your hips can flex, not how strong your abdominals are. The one that blew me away though was the Chin-Up. It was ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #21:120 Degree Abduction
It is Fitness Friday and I am going to share one of my favorite exercises with you. It is one that I perform before every baseball game that I play. It is called 120 degree abduction and works the front, middle and back of the shoulder. He exercise combines both stretching and strengthening. Scientifically it ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #20: Train Your Hamstrings!
Greetings from Los Angeles, California. I am at a conference that goes from 8 am 10 pm. for 4 days straight. It is imperative during events like this to take care of your health. I am in the gym at 5am doing exercises to strengthen my body. Since It is Fitness Fridays, I will share ... Read more →Fitness Friday #19: Eliminate Your Abdominal Exercises!
It seems everyone who exercises is looking for the best ab-exercise routine for developing flat, tight abdominal muscles. News flash, it does not exist. Every year there are dozens of new exercises, fitness classes, products, gadgets or routines claiming to sculpt and strengthen the abdominal muscles like none other. And while some of these may ... Read more →Fitness Friday #18:Get Down and Give Me None-No More Push-ups!
For years I have read about how people should exercise to build strength. There are many ways and I am not going to lecture you on what you should or should not do to increase muscular strength. What I will tell you is that if the exercise you are performing is painful to your joints, ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #17: Shrug it off!
One the biggest of disease is stress, which we all know about it, as a society we are doing the minimal to improve it. With people working lots of hours, traveling, traffic, economic fears, no time to enjoy life. This creates lots of tension. For many that tension causes knots (tight muscles that hurt) in ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #16: Now That’s Using Your Feet!
It’s Fitness Friday and I have an exercise that will challenge you. Physically it’s not difficult but mentally you could get frustrated. The exercise involves strengthening the Quadriceps—the muscle group on the front of your thighs that travel down past your knees. This exercise requires a little bit of balance and a Swiss Ball. And ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #15: What’s a Codman Pendulum Exercise and Why Should I Care?
Purpose of Codman Pendulum Exercises? Jun 16, 2011 | By Greg Cooper, D.C. Your shoulder is the most mobile joint in your body. Although it is a ball and socket joint like the hip, the socket is very shallow, allowing the ball to rotate through almost a 360 degree range. Because it is so mobile, ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #14: Rotator Cuff
As a Baseball Player, there are two words that you do not want to hear: Rotator. Cuff. That almost always means that you tore a muscle in your shoulder and throwing a baseball will not happen for a while. Rest, therapy and surgery are the usual options. Before I explain to you how to condition ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #13: Sit to be Fit!
The year was 1996 and I found out about a great way to exercise using what is called a Swiss-Ball. Invented in 1961 in Switzerland as way for children to stop moving in their chairs and making noise. Who would have ever thought that 3 decades later, it would become a fitness frenzy. In fact ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #12: Time to Pump You Up!
It’s Fitness Friday again, and it is time to pump you up!!! No, I’m not Ahnold, but my goal is for you to be healthier. I’m not trying to get you—as the guys say—huge, cut or ripped! Just healthy and happy. The video which I would like you to watch demonstrates an exercise that strengthens ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #11: Go Long Think Long Reach Long Be Long
Go Long, No it is not football season and I am not throwing you a touchdown pass. However, for this episode of Fitness Friday, I’d like you to think about “going long” by lengthening and strengthening your posture for the exercise in the video. Just click http://www.FireYourDiet.com and you understand exactly what I am referring ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #10: Sit down and work out!
Who talks about their calves? Pretty much nobody. Unless someone’s already a focused, committed bodybuilder. And that’s a mistake, because your calves are something you depend on day in, day out, for your entire life. Other than being appreciated as part of an attractive leg, what are calves good for? Besides your opposable thumb and ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #9: Beware the Three-Headed Monster
In the world of fitness, having arms that look developed and toned is a high priority. To get that definition, you need to work not only the biceps (or “guns”), but the whole arm. The back of the arms are called the triceps for many people are known as “The Three Headed Monster.” Unfortunately when ... Read more →Fitness Friday #8: If Life is a Balancing Act, Make Lemonade.
Ok, that was a reach. But hey… life IS a balancing act. And that’s the point of Fitness Fridays #8. Think about what most people do during a 24 hour period: Work, play, rest, eat, take care of family… and challenges may arise at any moment. If you’re not in balance, you’re in trouble. And physical ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #7: How to get rid of a pain in the neck
It was the summer of 2003 and I was in Maine on vacation. I sat down with some friends for a meal and picked up a fork with my left-hand and went to eat my salad. From nowhere the pain in my left shoulder felt like someone had stabbed me with a knife. This pain ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #6: Can You Last Three Minutes? At the Office?
Can you last 3 minutes? One hundred and eighty seconds. Five percent of an hour… Surprisingly most of our population can not—or really, will not—when it comes to exercise. I know, nobody has any time. We work lots of hours, commute to and from work. Spend “quality time” with the family. Eat. Sleep. Wake up and do ... Read more →Fitness Friday Exercise Tips #5: CAUTION: DO NOT BENCH PRESS. It could cost you!
Ever since I started strength training way back in 1983, I’ve been told how the wonderful the bench press was to build your chest and carve your physique. To this day people ask me, “how much do you bench?” It’s clearly a testosterone thing. I was more concerned with my batting average and if I ... Read more →Fitness Fridays Exercise Tips #4: Holding Stick Crunch for Tightly Trained Abdominals
Since I was a child, I have heard people say, I must lose my gut. The theory was that if one did sit-ups or crunches, The fat would eventually disappear. Are you kidding me. If it took years to put on that tire that blocks the view to your feet, how in the world would ... Read more →Fitness Fridays #3: Shoulder Extension Using the Medicine Ball to Build Strength
There are many reasons why you might have had it. The two most common are over-training and under-training. In addition, there are accidents, sports injuries, hereditary problems, age-related issues, and on and on… Allow me to give you some background on the shoulder. The Shoulder this is an example of the ‘ball and socket’ (or ... Read more →Fitness Fridays Exercise Tip #2: Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s your Healthy Back!
If you have, what did you do? See a chiropractor? Visit the medical doctor? Take some kind of medicine, over the counter or prescription? Did you ever try strengthen and stretch your lower-back? Many people do, but then why do so many backs still ache? One Doctor had this to say: Strength and suppleness won’t help ... Read more →Fitness Fridays Exercise Tip #1: Hip Internal / External Rotation Using the Swissball
The value of establishing proper strength and balance in the trunk muscles (the core stabilizers) when treating or preventing spinal problems is crystal clear. However, the hip muscles are often overlooked. The hip joint is intrinsically stable due to its construction as a ball in a deep socket, and is further enhanced by a very ... Read more →
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