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Simple Exercises to Improve Your Glute Activation

Have trouble with firing your glutes during exercise? Use these exercises to notice an immediately improvement, for better squats, lunges, less back pain, and a bigger butt!

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The Negative Pull Up

Watch this video to learn the benefits, the technique, and my recommendations on how to incorporate the negative pull-up into your workout routine. The negative pull-up is especially effective because it is an eccentric motion that allows your body to do more than if you were to just do normal pull-ups. Using negative pull-ups helps you get stronger more quickly, practice perfect pull-up form with better upper-back and shoulder engagement (less arms), and prevent injury in your shoulders. Pulling exercises are especially important for yoga practitioners to balance the pushing-dominant nature of yoga.

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Yoga Postures To Build Muscle

Build muscle in your entire body with these muscle-building yoga postures.

Deep Squat, arms overhead
Goddess (Haka)
Low Plank
Dolphin
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28-Minute Full Body Strength & Recovery Flow

This is a dynamic yoga flow to simultaneously build strength and promote recovery, targeting your back and shoulders, hips, spine, and core. Relieve soreness in your shoulders, improve groin mobility, relieve stiffness in your spine, and finish feeling satisfied. Enjoy!

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Yoga Strengthening Postures You Can Do With A Broken Foot

Looking for yoga postures you can do while your foot is injured? Try these out. Keep your body strong and avoid the aches and pains that come from being sedentary.

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Yoga Stretches You Can Do With An Injured Foot

Looking for yoga stretches you can do while your foot is injured? Try these out. Stretch tight muscles, prevent aches and pains from being sedentary, and keep your muscles limber.

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Best Butt-Building Exercises

Workout to Improve Muscle Activation & Strengthen Glutes

This video shows you 7 of the best body-weight exercises for building muscle in your butt and improving your glute activation - no machines required. This is important for improving squats, strengthening your knees, reducing lower-back pain during exercise, and much more. Your glutes will be burning in no time - give this workout a shot! Most exercises require nothing but your body, but some are more effective when you use a Theraband. If you don’t have one yet, you can get a set on Amazon at the link below. (I recommend the lighter resistance at first, and heavier later on.)

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The Clark Workouts – Part 1

This is a comprehensive workout to strengthen and improve mobility in your core, hips, and shoulders; improve muscle activation in commonly neglected muscle groups like glutes and core; address and counter the negative effects of sitting; and prevent or undo the stress of chronic muscle tightness. This particular workout from the Clark series focuses on your core and spine. It’s a comprehensive workout that’s quick, effective, and can be done over and over again. Enjoy!

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HIP FLEXORS: Strengthen and Increase the Flexibility of Your Psoas

This workout focuses on strengthening and increasing the flexibility of one of the most important muscles in your body: the psoas. The psoas connects your lower body to your upper body. It is the main muscle involved in lifting your leg off the ground with the knee in a bent position. Use this workout to improve the strength and flexibility of this critical muscle for better lunges, more powerful squats, less back pain, healthier knees, and much more.

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3 Simple Strategies to stick with your workout program

“How do you stay focused on your workouts when you have so much going on? Especially when you start to have issues or additional stress with work, relationships, or life changes. What can you do to stay focused and motivated?”

I'm writing this blog to give you 3 simple strategies you can combine to make sure you stick to your workouts, stay motivated, and get the results you want. It starts with a story.

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