04 Feb Tabletop Heel Tap
HOW: Start this exercise on your back in a 90/90 position. Keep the small of your back pushed into the floor by activating your core. While maintaining core activation drop one leg towards the floor. When lowering your legs, bring one leg down at...
04 Feb Standing Short Foot
HOW: Get set up in a standing position and make sure you're barefoot when performing this exercise. To begin the exercise, lift your arch while focusing on putting pressure into the ground with the knuckle of your big toe and trying to pull that...
04 Feb Dead Bug – Head Lift
HOW: Start this exercise on your back in a 90/90 position, with your knees over your hips and your arms in front of your shoulders. Keep the small of your back pushed into the floor by activating your core. While maintaining core activation, perform...
03 Feb Single Arm Down Dog
HOW: Begin in a single arm high plank position keeping your body in line (feet up to shoulders). From a high plank position, push yourself into a downward facing down, push the shoulder blade away from you as you move into this position. Return...
03 Feb Band Pull Apart – 0, 90, 180
HOW: Perform a banded pull apart at a low angle, middle angle, and a high angle. With all three angles make sure your shoulder blade are initiating the movement. FEEL: You will feel the shoulder blades and shoulders working with this exercise. ...
03 Feb Scapula Retraction Ball Toss
HOW: Use a light option to push back and forth behind your back. Make sure your shoulder blades are pulled back for the entirety of this exercise. FEEL: You will feel your shoulders and shoulder blades working with this exercise. COMPENSATION: Avoid allowing your...
03 Feb Lateral Lunge – Band
HOW: Begin this exercise by taking a large step to your side. The larger the step, the deeper you will be able to go with this exercise. Once you have stepped, perform a lateral lunge motion by letting your hip and knee bend and...
03 Feb Lateral Bounding – Band
HOW: Begin this exercise by placing a resistance band around your waist. You will then bound away from the anchor of the band and land on your opposite leg. Take a step back towards the anchor of the band then repeat. FEEL: The leg...
03 Feb Serratus Scoop – Dumbbell, Band
HOW: Begin with both hands at your side with a band looped around your wrists and light dumbbell in hand. While keeping tension on the band for the entirety of this exercise, elevate your arms in front of you then slowly return. FEEL: You...
03 Feb Face Pull – Band
HOW: Begin this exercise upright with the resistance band anchored at about shoulder height. Place your wrists inside a band, then pull your hands back and out to the side. You want to pull with the shoulder blades and the back of the shoulder...
