10 minute #fitandstrong deep stretch! 🙏🏼



I hope you enjoy this quick, yet deep stretch designed to release your muscles.

Everything below this is a description. If you don't care about reading it, go ahead and hit PLAY, and let's get #fitandstrong together!

• 2 min seated butterfly

• 1 min dragon (right)

• 1 min dragon (left)

• 1 min lying shoulder (right)

• 1 min lying shoulder (left)

• 2 min down dog (or child's pose)

• 1 min supine twist (right)

• 1 min supine twist (left)

*Fit + Strong Tip: if you’re fidgety by nature, really focus on your inhales and exhales. Make it a conscious effort to breathe. 

Hope you enjoy this one!  I've got a ton more workouts of all kinds on the
Fit + Strong Facebook page. And other tools to help keep our minds strong too!

Warmly,

DeAnne

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20 minute #fitandstrong deep stretch! 🙏🏼

Hey my friend!

I hope you enjoy this deep stretch designed to relax and release your muscles.

Everything below this is a description. If you don't care about reading it, go ahead and hit PLAY, and let's get #fitandstrong together!

*Two (10 min) rounds of:

• 2 min seated forward fold

• 2 min child’s pose

• 1 min supine twist (each side)

• 1 min pigeon pose (each side)

• 1 min lizard pose (each side)

*Fit + Strong Tip: if you’re fidgety by nature, really focus on your breath work. And maybe just one (10 min) round instead of two... 

Hope you enjoy this one, my friend. Plenty more where that came from. I'm currently doing live workouts every M-W-F at 10am on my Fit + Strong Facebook page. And YOU have an open invitation to work out with me!

Warmly,

DeAnne

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How to Foam Roll Your Lower Body [video + workout included]

march mobility workouts Mar 12, 2020
 

We've dedicated the month of March to mobility at Fit + Strong, and today we're building on last week's How to Foam Roll Your Upper Body  episode.

Some of you may know that in October I over-trained and hurt my back.  Man, I was in pain!  So I decided I was going to do something about it . For one month I committed to stretching 20 minutes every day. It helped loosen my body more than I ever thought  possible in 30 days. It was so amazing!

This experience really changed the importance that I place on mobility (of the joints) and flexibility (of the muscles). As a fitness professional, instructor, and trainer for the last 16 years I've preached to clients, "flexibility is so important, mobility is so powerful, don't you dare skip it!"

Now that I'm in my mid-forties, it's not just important. It's VITAL to my health. Mobility and flexibility have become a higher priority for me now than ever before.

That's why we are doing 'March Mobility' this entire...

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How to Foam Roll Your Upper Body [video + workout included]

march mobility workouts Mar 05, 2020
 

At Fit + Strong HQ, the month of March is dedicated to mobility, and this week's episode starts with a tool I covet: the foam roller.

Some of you may know that in October I over-trained and hurt my back.  I was in chronic pain and trying to teach classes in pain is the WORST. So I decided I was going to do something about it .

For the month of December I committed to stretching 20 minutes every day. It helped loosen my body more than I ever thought  possible in 30 days. It was so amazing!

This experience really changed the importance that I place on mobility (of the joints) and flexibility (of the muscles). As a fitness professional, instructor, and trainer for the last 16 years I've preached to clients, "flexibility is so important, mobility is so powerful, don't you dare skip it!"

Now that I'm in my mid-forties, it's not just important. It's VITAL to my health. Mobility and flexibility have become a higher priority for me now than ever before.

That's why we are doing...

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