Plyometrics For Lower Body Strength

Developing lower body strength has direct carry over to everyday activities. We want to be able to play with our kids longer, go for longer walks, and be able to move our friends into their new apartments (ya, right). Resistance training is a great tool to help us achieve our lower body strength, but adding in plyometrics can tap into a different component of strength.

Plyometrics help develop "explosive" power that will aide us in our starting strength. Here are a few movements that you can perform in conjunction with your strength training routine:

-Box jumps

-Broad jumps

-Plyometric lunges

-Depth jumps

Ask your Fitness Together trainer about plyometrics and the numerous benefits that come along with them!

-Eric

Fitness Together Newtonville & Auburndale

Hallo-Ween Off The Candy

With Halloween right around the corner, temptation follows in the form of sweets! How do we make it through the weekend (or month) without ransacking the children’s candy stash? Here are a few simple guidelines to follow that will help curb those cravings!
1. If you buy candy to hand out, buy the kind you don’t enjoy!
2. Give yourself a limit on how many pieces you are "allowed". As in two, not five! Once the limit is reached, you are done. NO EXCEPTIONS!
3. Put your excess candy (or your kids candy), out of site. That way its not in your plain view all the time. If you have to work harder to find or get to it, you most likely wont go the extra mile to do so.
4. Give away your excess candy!
5. Eat 70% or greater dark chocolate when you are having a sweets craving. The antioxidants found in dark chocolate are very beneficial.
Don’t let this holiday ruin your nutrition/weight goals. Limit yourself, but do not deprive! Good luck and be safe!

-Eric
Fitness Together Newtonville & Auburndale

Upper Back Strength For Posture

In an average day, people spend more time sitting at their computer, t.v., and in their car. For this reason, its not uncommon to see someone with that "slouched" posture. You know it, head forward, shoulders pulled forward, big rounding of the upper back.

How do we fight this? By training the upper back with weights! Strength training 2-3 times per week can drastically improve posture. Perform two of these movements at least twice per week.

Pull Ups or Assisted Pull Ups

Lat Pulldowns

Face Pulls

Dumbbell Rows

Cable Rows

Deadlifts

Goodluck with your training and keep fighting the war against bad posture!!!

-Eric

Fitness Together Newtonville & Auburndale