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Fitness Tuesday- Foam Roller

Happy Tuesday everyone! With the holidays fast approaching I know that everyone is doing their last minute work outs in order to look great for when they see their families. One of the things that always happens after a great workout is you muscles tend to be sore. For me I always am sore some days I am more sore than others depending on the work out I had the day before, but this is something that isn’t bad. I tend to get a lot of muscles spasms especially on my back. I grew up with scoliosis and instead of surgery I wore a back brace from 7th grade until my sophomore year of high school. This was pretty difficult especially growing up in Florida with all of this humidity. Since I have been working out more frequently than before I have noticed my back acting up from it. My brother Ira suggested that I use a foam roller to stretch out my muscles. I looked at it and said that thing you have in your bedroom is for that? He said yes and showed me how to use it properly so that I wouldn’t hurt myself in the process. Since that day I use after every hard workout I have which is normally after I go to a Fhitting Room class or a SoulSurvivor. This is has truly made a difference with my muscles and helped with my back spasms tremendously! If you don’t own a foam roller no problem there are tons of options online now and at different price points. If you have never used a foam roller before and aren’t sure which one to purchase stick with the simple ones that almost look like a rolled up yoga mat to start and then go from there. Hope this helps all of you with your muscles. Have a great Tuesday!


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Fitness Tuesday- Bagels & Squats

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Happy Tuesday Everyone! Can not believe that November is almost over and it’s now officially Holiday Season! As I have previously posted one of my favorite new workouts that I go to at least once a week is Fhitting Room. I love that every time I go it is something different. Even if you do the same exercise again like the rowing machine they always find a way to change it up. Now since Fhitting room is currently only in New York I found a video posted by Bagels & Squats that shows 12 different ways to work out your arms without the use of any weights! As I was watching the video I said to my mom sitting next to me that these were all workouts I did in my Fhitting Room classes. Then low and behold at the end of the video it says that the exercises were provided by Emily Cook Harris an instructor at The Fhitting Room. The video was posted by Self Magazine as well. If you go to Bagels & Squats facebook page here the video was posted on June 6th of this year. Hope everyone has a great day and did a lot of good shopping yesterday on Cyber Monday. Some of the sites are even continuing their sales today so if you didn’t snag an item that you forgot yesterday check and see if they are still offering Cyber Monday sales on the site. <3

 

Here is the link to the Facebook Page for Bagels & Squats


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Fitness Tuesday: Fhitting Room

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I know that on Sunday I wrote about SoulCycle and my love for doing spin classes, but I have decided that every Tuesday I am going to share some fitness tips and will be calling it Fitness Tuesday! Something that my brother Ira has taught me about working out (he is my gym inspiration) he said that you need to make sure that you switch up your workouts. I spin at least 4 days a week, but in between spinning and doing cardio I try to add different work outs. My best friend Shayna told me about Fhitting Room back in July and I will admit I was a little scared to try it at first. Before I went to the class I obviously googled it and saw a video of one of the classes. I have done cross training type classes before, but not ones that involved this many circuits in one class. I reluctantly signed up for my first class and now I am hooked. I know a lot of people are concerned that especially in a group class like that you won’t get a lot of personalized attention especially since you want to make sure your form is right in order to not hurt yourself, but there is no reason for anyone to be worried! There are always two instructors in each class and they are constantly walking around checking everyone’s form. There have been times I have been screamed at in my face saying to keep going when I was at my breaking point, but they pushed me through it. I have been in the class with even women that are PREGNANT believe it or not and if they can make it through this class so can all of you. They give a deal to first timers where you get two classes for the price of one and then after those classes run out you can buy a 3 class pack at a lower rate. If you are in NYC and haven’t tried them out already you need to get yourself over to either one of their locations and try it out for yourself.

(images taken from google)

 


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