Physical fitness is more than just strength. It’s the ability to play with your kids when you get home. It’s the ability to enjoy your weekends with a round of golf or dancing the night away. And it is absolutely key if you want to continue to enjoy all these things as you age.
There are so many different ways to approach strength training: free weights, kettlebells, TRX suspension training, resistance bands and body weight training. Strength training can improve your posture, your energy levels, your self-image and it can and should be fun.
And of course there’s yoga. Yoga isn’t just stretching and flexibility. You’ll also gain strength, balance and greatly improved body awareness.
Whether your movement happiness is yoga, tai chi, rock climbing, cycling, stand up paddleboard or Brazilian jujitsu, it all counts toward your physical fitness. While strength training and GYROTONIC® training can help improve your performance in any of these activities, by themselves they all ask you to move with a purpose. And because you enjoy them, you’re more likely to get out a move.
Here’s the answer I most commonly give:
Sure, with a simple movement like a biceps curl, it’s pretty easy and obvious what you’re “supposed to feel”. Your biceps.
But what about a complex, multiplanar motion, which is what almost every GYROTONIC® exercise qualifies as.
When I was at the Pilates Method Alliance Conference, I had a chance to sit down with an old friend, Madeline Black. I don’t remember exactly when I met Madeline but I think I’ve known her for at least a decade.
Madeline is a leader in pilates education.
With the majority of people having desk jobs sitting in front of a computer, common avoidable postural distortions like Forward Head Posture and Upper Crossed Syndrome have become almost the norm. If you're able to keep your focus on proper posture from a young age and throughout your life
