Preventing Back Pain: Cobra to Child’s Pose

Loosen up tight back muscles, relieve lower back pain, and help your spine move better with this exercise combo! Repeat daily for best results!

Preventing Back Pain: Thoracic Extension

Take the load off of your lumbar spine and learn to activate your thoracic (mid-back) muscles! Use this exercise daily to improve back strength and decrease lower back pain.

Preventing Back Pain- Dead Bugs

A strong core is paramount to preventing back soreness, overuse, and injury. Use this exercise as a general strengthening movement during your core exercises and a great warmup before you ask your body to do lifting or bending movements.

Squatting Through the Fall: Kneel to Stand

Get #fitforthefall with this exercise series! Squatting properly, with no knee pain, demands a proper hip hinge form as well as strength and balance from your hip muscles. The kneel to stand breakdown helps prepare those muscles and tunes up your balance in preparation for more difficult movements. Keep watching and we’ll progress you through this series and have you squatting through the fall!

Plank Series: Plank to Push-up Rotations

Previously in this series, we have showed you how to perfect the basic plank, and added in variations like plank to push-up and the spiderman plank. This week, master this ultimate plank combo!

Plank Series: Spiderman Plank

Let’s keep progressing through the Plank Series! This week throws a doozy at you: Spiderman Plank. It’s a challenge! So if your form breaks down, go back to an earlier plank version or talk to a trainer to try to perfect your plank skillz!

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