Posts Tagged ‘Workout’
Taking Charge Of Your Fitness Routine With Stretching & Balance Exercises
The four main components of fitness training are cardio, strength, stretching, and balance. Of those, the latter two are often overlooked. Cardio and strength training are obviously very important for developing a strong and healthy body. However, overdoing those and skimping on stretching and balance can lead to muscle tightness, imbalance and asymmetry, eventually leading…
Read MoreHow To Incorporate Fitness Outside The Gym
Fitness outside the gym…sounds contradictory, doesn’t it? For most, the idea of working out, getting in shape, being fit, or losing weight is directly tied to being in the gym. Or even further, it’s this idea that it’s 45 long minutes on a treadmill, or trying to figure out weights and machines you’ve never been…
Read MoreHow Can I Determine My Baseline Of Fitness & Create Goals From That?
What does it mean to be well? That’s a tricky question, and certainly the question in the healthy living world. Health and wellness is rooted in individual perspective. Its definition differs from person to person, gym to gym, and athlete to athlete. At Achieving Your Best we seek to create an inclusive understanding of health…
Read MoreI Should Be Doing WHAT Before I Workout?
With there being multiple factors that affect how you perform during your workout, it is crucial that we do a better job to take care of the ones that we can control. One of the most neglected and overlooked factors is how much sleep we consistently. With out the recovery that takes place during that…
Read MoreWORKOUT: 12 Days Of Fitness
For those of you that are busy this time of year or just want a fun workout that is different, here is what I did with my HIIT class this morning! It should only take you about 10-12 minutes to do the workout-be sure to warm up all of your muscles for 5-10 minutes before…
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