Archives: Exercises

  • Rag doll

    1. Begin with your feet placed shoulder-width apart with a slight bend at the knee 2. Slow pivot forward at the hips, allowing your chest to lower towards your legs 3. Continue lowering your upper body, allowing your hands to hang loosely towards the floor, while rounding your back 4. Allow the stretch to feel…

  • Wall Angels

    1. Stand with your glutes, back, and head flat against a wall 2. Place your feet out 1 or 2 steps in front of you allowing your body to slide slightly down the wall 3. Bring your arms up and place the backs of your hands against the wall on either side of your head,…

  • Lying Knee to Chest

    1. Lay flat on your back on a soft surface 2. Bring your right knee up towards your chest, and hold the position when your thigh rests, or comes close to resting, on your chest 3. Reach both hands around the front of your knee and create a little pulling pressure. You should feel the…

  • Groiners

    1. Start by getting yourself into a full push-up position on your exercise mat or soft surface. Make sure your hands are placed, palm down, directly beneath your shoulders.  2. Bring your right leg off the ground and slowly bring it along the right side of your body where you should aim to place your…

  • Figure 4 Glute Stretch

    1. Lay flat on your back on a soft surface 2. Bring your right knee up towards your chest, and hold the position when your right thigh runs perpendicular to your body 3. Bring your left foot off the ground across and your body and place the outside of your left ankle on top of…

  • Cobra

    1. Lay flat on your stomach with your hands placed palm down next to your shoulders 2. Push your palms into the floor as you raise your chest upwards 3. Fully flex your spine and aim to keep your gaze facing forward feeling the stretch in your abdominal muscles

  • Cat Back/Camel

    1. Kneel on all fours on your mat with your palms flat directly under your shoulders and your knees directly under your hips 2. Draw your abdomen inward as you arch your back raising your spine towards the ceiling 3. Briefly hold this before lowering your abdomen down towards the floor while gently lifting your…

  • Butterfly

    1. Sit on the floor, with your back upright, and the bases of your feet in contact with each other 2. Your knees should be pointing outwards and your core should be nice and tight 3. Take hold of your feet with your thumbs on the top side of each foot and place your elbows…

  • Elevated Hip DB Press

    1. Lay on your back on a soft workout surface with your feet planted on the floor allowing your knees to point upwards. Have one arm extended out to your side, and the other firmly gripping a dumbbell with your arm extended above your chest 2. Drive through your heels and raise your glutes off…

  • Kneeling DB Overhead Press

    1. Take a firm grip of the dumbbells and bring them up to rest at shoulder height with one either side of your head, your palms facing forwards, and your elbows bent at a 90-degree angle 2. Slowly lower your body down to the floor so that your knees are resting comfortably at about shoulder-width…