Squat with Side Bend/Reach
Add a little stretch to your squats with this heart-calming variation! If your heart rate climbs high while doing a set of squats, adding this arm reach overhead between each…
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Bird Dog with Variations
An excellent core workout for all levels! This exercise is used by pilates instructors, personal trainers and physical therapists as a great way to build up core muscles, especially low…
Tricep Extension – Shortened Range of Motion Variation
Work your triceps to the fullest, while protecting your joints, with this surprising variation! The bent-over tricep extension might be a staple in your upper body workout days, but have…
Side-Lying Oblique Torso Lifts
Try this challenging but fun oblique exercise! This exercise is great for slimming your sides and strengthening your obliques. If you don’t have a friend to hold your feet you…
Oblique Torso Rotation with Theraband
Work your obliques without bending! (No twisting necessary either!) Two versions of standing oblique exercises to try if you have a theraband or cable machine. Both versions will hold steady…
Oblique Exercise with Leg Over a Chair or Barre
Work your obliques with this all-inclusive exercise! Obliques help you side bend and twist*. This exercise works both those functions of your obliques! Be sure you pull your belly button…
Standing Side Bend Oblique Exercise with Dumbbell
Get rid of those love handles with some great oblique toning! This side body bend using a dumbbell or kettlebell is a great way to work your obliques from a…
Overhead Shoulder Stretch with Theraband or Towel
Got neck, shoulder pain or stiffness or a rounded upper spine? This stretch is great! We sit so hunched over (especially now with things like computers and smart phones), that…
Ankle Crossed Side and IT Band Stretch
Did you know the whole side of your body also needs to be stretched?! When we stretch, we typically think neck and shoulders or calves and hamstrings, maybe quads and…
Calf Stretch: Toes Up Wall
Do you stretch your calves but still find that they, or your ankles, feel tight? You stretch your calves after running or walking, but do you get both the gastrocnemius…