I started thinking about real life workouts today because my morning kind of went like this:
I got up and had breakfast and realized while drinking my second cup of tea that I had somehow forgotten that this was a day when my teaching started at 8 […]
My feet had had enough. After a challenging handstands class (If you’re not sure why handstands would bother my feet, try getting into a down dog pike position, then jump up and down for an hour. That’s basically what a handstands class is.) and wandering around Capitol Hill for PrideFest, […]
If I wanted to make a list of the top 10 complaints I hear from students, tight hamstrings would be up there. Lots of other muscles can be tight but for some reason having flexible hamstrings is like the unicorn of the fitness world: very rare and desirable and somehow […]
Just in the past several weeks I’ve had many clients come to me with a new diagnosis of either osteoporosis or osteopenia. It’s understandable: my typical clientele is female-bodied folks over 60 and with that group we’ve got a collision of two important factors. One is that female-bodied folks are […]
I have loved doing video workouts for a long time. You could argue it started way back when I was a kid and some random workout show would come on TV, usually when we were doing a road trip somewhere and I was alone in the hotel room feeling bored. […]
I’ve been getting this question enough that I’m planning to run some kind of program about choosing and using weights to build stronger muscles and bones in 2022. Adding weight can help you improve balance and proprioception, it can help you prevent or rehab an injury, and getting, and more […]
When I began doing aerials, I suddenly became very vocal when I was working out and training.
Me, playing with a baby hoop in an outdoor aerial rig a few years ago.
When I began doing straps (a type of aerials where you […]
Something I find myself saying a lot while teaching is “Set yourself up well.” What I mean by that exactly depends on what we’re setting ourselves up for, but the bottom line is the same regardless: It really helps your body to set it up for what you’re planning to […]
“Don’t make plans; make options.” This has been the motto for me and my partner this year, and I thought about it in relation to fitness in a Facebook post I made recently.
This isn’t a motto that comes easily to me because I like plans. I like spreadsheets. I like to […]
We’ve all been on Zoom for a good long time now and there’s so much we’re tired of. Fussing with the audio, blinding ourselves by staring into a ring light, figuring out the right backdrop in our homes that weren’t designed with video in mind, managing family needs and pets, […]
