Author: sophie.dehenzel
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3 Ways to Avoid Fitness Resolution Pitfalls
3 Ways to Avoid Fitness Resolution Pitfalls For many, the beginning of a new year brings resolutions to lose weight, get in shape, join a gym, and so on and so forth. While these new goals always start off strong, they tend to fizzle as January comes to a close. To avoid the resolution pitfall,…
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Eliminating Your Limiting Factors And Reaching Your Goals
Eliminating Your Limiting Factors AND Reaching Your Goals Have you ever set out to reach your health and fitness goals and been unsuccessful? If you’re nodding your head “yes” right now, you’re not alone. Oftentimes we set out to reach a goal, such as lose weight or run a 5k, and we don’t make it…
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How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches: Week 5 – Bird Dog
How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches! Week 5: Bird Dog Welcome to our final week in our 5-week series, where we’ve introduced a safe, effective, and crunch-less core exercise each week. In the last month we have covered: the Pallof Press, Plank Variations, Plank Variations with Valslides, and the Valslide Body Saw.In case you missed last week’s post, we…
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How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches: Week 2 – Planks
How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches! Week 2: Planks Welcome to Week 2 in our 5-week series, where we will showcase a new safe and effective core exercise every week, including the Pallof Press, Plank Variations, Plank Variations with Val Slides, Body Saw, and Bird Dog. In case you missed last…
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How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches: Week 1 – Pallof Press
How to Effectively Train Your Core Without Doing Any Crunches! Week 1: Pallof Press What if we told you that you could train your core effectively without doing any crunches? Better yet, what if we showed you? Welcome to our 5-week series, where we will showcase a new safe and effective core exercise every week,…
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Spartan Strong – Conquering the Spartan Sprint
Spartan Strong – Conquering the Spartan Sprint This past spring, one of my longtime clients asked if I had any interest joining her in a Spartan Race. It was a no-brainer of a “yes” as I would never miss an opportunity to support a DTS client in such an event. In addition, we were joined by…
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Conquering Mt. Whitney
Conquering Mt. Whitney Our adventurous clients came to us last spring with the idea to climb Mt.Whitney. After much planning, preparation, and training, our anticipated journey to hike the highest peak in the Lower 48, finally came to fruition. In mid-July, we set off to conquer one of the toughest day hikes in the country.…
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Back Stretch – Cat/Cow
Back Stretch – Cat/Cow Cat/Cow is a great stretch for the back, spine, hips, and core muscles. Borrowed from a traditional yoga movement, this stretch can improve spine flexibility and help with back soreness and pain. The Cat/Cow stretch is great to perform in your exercise warmup, cooldown, as you rise in the morning, or any…
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Plank Progression: Side Plank
Plank Progression: Side Plank Welcome to Day 5 and our final day of our Plank Series! This week we’ve covered how to perform a correct plank as well as some tough progressions to strengthen your planks and challenge your body. In case you missed our posts this week, you can catch up below: Day 1: How…
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Plank Progression: Single Arm Plank
Plank Progression: Single Arm Plank Welcome to Day 4 of our Plank Series! In Day 3 of our Plank Series, we discussed how to progress your plank with a Single Leg, 3 Point Plank. Continuing with a 3 Point Plank, the next progression in our series is the Single Arm Plank. Before you get started on your progression, check…