Welcome, friends and lifters, to part two in my series on Strength Training Umbrellas. I use the term umbrellas to define broad categories, or general goals, that strength trainers tend to fall under. These umbrellas can help you make decisions about both overload and modality.
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Welcome, friends and lifters, to part two in my series on Strength Training Umbrellas. I use the term umbrellas to define broad categories, or general goals, that strength trainers tend to fall under. These umbrellas can help you make decisions about both overload and modality.
It’s getting on towards back to school. And that means summer is coming to a close. I’m sure many of you (especially if you have littles) are planning for one last hurrah. Whether that happens before the school bells ring again or if you have...
Awhile back, I posted an article about sensing stability in yoga poses. As a teacher, I find the concepts of dimensionality, base of support, and sensory input to be valuable as general guidelines for all asanas. However, students often still have questions about individual asanas....
Strength training is the easiest way to help achieve most goals. Now, depending on your larger aim, there will probably be other modes of training that you need to incorporate, but that’s a post for another day. Strength trainers, to my mind, generally fall under...
Welcome to the third of my three part series on outfitting a home gym with different budget parameters in mind. We’ve covered how to really trick out a space and how to hit that mid-range sweet spot with a home gym. Today, let’s tackle a...
The weather is getting warmer and the kids are out of school. While that typically means a lot more time spent outside (yay!), it also brings the challenges of new schedules, more chaos, and less time for individual pursuits and self care. Including heading to...
May is Mental Health Month, so all month long here at MMW, I’ll be touching on some of the mental health aspects of wellness. There are a lot of fitness bloggers out there who do a great job at providing us with some amazing programs...
May is Mental Health Month, and as such all month long here at MMW, we’ll be talking about the mental aspects of wellness. In my last post about using our breath as part of a self care routine, I covered how to observe breath. Just...
Welcome to the second of my three part series on outfitting a home gym with different budget parameters in mind. In the first part, we covered how to really trick out a gym space and today we are going to cover some mid-range options for...
Self care. This phrase is getting a lot of play lately, and for good reason. It is good to be reminded that we need to take care of our needs, too. Many different things can fall under the description of self care. And that makes...