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Tag: stability ball

Push-ups and core training

5 Ways to Work Your Core More When You Do Push-Ups

Push-ups are an upper body exercise, but they also work your core muscles. It’s always gratifying when you work more than one muscle group at the same time! By making some adjustments to a standard push-up and by doing certain push-up variations, you can work your core even harder.

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Great Glutes Premixes and Chapters

Great Glutes Premixes and Chapters

Now that we’ve entered into the DVD authoring phase  we thought we would start to share with you the chapter menus and the premixes we have planned for all of the new workouts.  To begin, listed below are the chapter and premix menus for Great Glutes which is one of two lower body workouts we

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Simple Ways to Improve Balance When You Work Out

Simple Ways to Improve Balance When You Work Out

Having a good sense of balance is important in everyday life and when you play sports. Balance becomes more of a problem with age. That’s why it’s important to incorporate balance training into your workouts. Here are some ways to improve your balance and add balance challenges to your fitness routine.

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Xtrain Chest,Back and Shoulders Workout Time

This is a picture of Cathe getting ready to do a dumbbell pullover on a stability ball in XTrain’s Chest/Back/Shoulders. XTrain Chest/Back/Shoulders is another heavy weight workout in this series that uses weights slightly lighter than Burn Sets,  but also  has slightly higher rep ranges for each exercise. In this upper body workout Cathe keeps the boredom

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XTrain Legs and Rear Delts

The leg exercises in this Xtrain workout (Legs and Rear Delts) include new and traditional exercises scrambled in ways that will surely leave your lower body worked. This program, has a great mix of Standing leg work, Stability Ball work, Barre and floorwork exercises effectively sequenced, to keep the fat burning and your muscles responding.

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Not a Lot of Equipment is Needed for Total Body Tri – Sets

Amanda starting to do a Dixie Cup forward Lunge with a joint friendlier forward lean in Total Body Tri – Sets. We’ve kept the equipment demands rather light for this workout: We used dumbbells (5 to 25lbs), Stability Ball, Dixie Cups and a High Step (the High Step is only really used   for an

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On the Ball for Health

With a Swiss ball, you can exercise while you’re watching television, waiting for the stove timer to ring or during short breaks between chores.

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55cm Stability Ball

This week’s featured Fitness by Cathe accessory  is  Cathe’s burst resistant cherry red 55cm stability ball is rated and tested for 1000 lbs and is for women and men 5′ 4″ and under., but hurry this special is for a limited time only and will end on Sunday, March 14 th. Use coupon code “FP-15” when

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October 2009 Rotation

Hi Everyone! This month we are going to do an undulating STS rotation. This rotation is designed for ultimate muscle confusion. It is an advanced rotation and is only suggested if you are an avid and seasoned weightlifter (ie: been lifting for at least 6 months to a year). If you are not a seasoned

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