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The April Five

About the Five:

Each month I offer five exercises to improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility.

Could you do these exercises for one minute each every day this week, and see how your strength and mobility improves?

  • Cat/Cow
  • Leg Pull (Back)
  • Warrior II
  • Side Raise
  • Rolling to Standing

 

This month we feature a fun mobility exercise – Rolling to Standing!

How easy is it for you to get up and down off the floor? While we can use a variety of markers to gauge our health (waist measurements, cardiovascular tests, and strength tests, for example) an often overlooked aspect of fitness and longevity is mobility. If you have trouble getting up off the floor, this move is for you!

Please use your best judgment as to how suitable these are for you right now.

Cat/ Cow
Leg Pull (Back)
yoga standing balance, leg strength
Warrior II
shoudler strength
Side Raise
mobility exercise, fall prevention, core strength
Rolling to Standing

These photos are meant to remind you of work we have done together. Please see your medical professional prior to beginning a new exercise program.

If you’d like more detailed information on these exercises, click one of the links below:

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The February Five Exercises

About the Five:

Each month I offer five exercises to improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility. My hope is that you will go through these on your own or with me three times a week.

Some moves (like this month’s bridge) you could do every day.

If you do The Five each month, over the course of the year you will have taken yourself through a well rounded strength program that includes upper body, lower body, back, core, standing balance, mobility and flexibility.

The February Five:

  • Bridge
  • Cobra
  • Side-Lying Leg Lift
  • Saw
  • Teaser

Please use your best judgment as to how suitable these are for you right now.

back entension, hip extension, yoga back strength exercise, hamstring strength, hip strength, low back support

back strength, spine mobility, core strength, yoga floor exercises
Cobra

hip and leg strength, core work, stabilization
Side-Lying Leg Lift

Pilates core strength, spine mobility, shoulder rotation, hamstring flexibility
Saw

Pilates core strength, spine mobility, shoulder mobility
Teaser

These photos are meant to remind you of work we have done together. Please see your medical professional prior to beginning a new exercise program. 

If you’d like more detailed information on these exercises, click one of the links below:

Join Fluid’s Fit Club!

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Schedule a 1:1 with Anne

The November Five Exercises

What are The Five? Each month I offer five new exercises that we incorporate into most classes and training sessions, when appropriate. 

Why do these exercises? Improve your strength, balance, flexibility, and mobility. 

How do I do them? Watch this video to see me demonstrating your November Five. You may go through these on your own, or do with me in a live zoom class or one on one training session.

If you are following along with me in this month’s video, please use your best judgment as to how suitable these are for you right now.

The November Five:

  • Dead Bug
  • Thoracic Rotation
  • Leg Pull
  • Half Roll Back with Twist
  • Band Rows
Dead Bug
Thoracic Rotation
Leg Pull
Half Rollback with a Twist
Band Row

These photos are meant to remind you of work we have done together. Please see your medical professional prior to beginning a new exercise program. 

If you’d like more detailed information on these exercises, click one of the links below:

Join Fluid’s Fit Club!

Join a class

Schedule a 1:1 with Anne