Turkish Getup Part 2 – Time Warner News’ ACTIVE NOW

New Weekly Tipz! Austin Time Warner News’ “Active Now” news spot showed me some more on-the-air love this week by filming a follow up video (part 2) of the Turkish Getup. Here, I do my best to demonstrate the the 3rd position (the power position) of the Turkish Getup using a shoe as well as a small weight. It’s like a sit-up to a side-plank but much much more. Everyone should try these. They are for everyone, regardless of age or fitness level.

http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/lifestyles/2015/11/28/active-now–turkish-getup-part-2.html

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New Weekly Tipz! This week is a great time to access where we are, which is roughly 15 weeks till the end of the year, less than that till the “holidays”. Time doesn’t care if we’ve been busy. We need to know where we are exactly at this moment. Because where we are NOW has everything to do with where we are heading in the future. I’m talking about goals, dreams, the things we want from life. I say this often, and only with the best intentions: wherever we are at this present moment was made possible by our past and current lifestyle, environments and behaviors. If we want something different for ourselves in the future, we will mostly likely need to make some serious changes to the the way we think and the things we do (and don’t do). Make no mistake, this is the only way that i know conscience progress and change happens. Start slow. Build strong. (P.S i have no idea why the video is so dark. sorry. just roll with it.) Blue Sky Strongbox Personal Training

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New Weekly Tipz! Today is part 3 of 3 “movement routines” I use while traveling away from home.

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New Weekly Tipz! Today is part 2 of 3 “movement routines” I use while traveling away from home.

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New Weekly Tipz! Today is part 1 of 3 “movement routines” I use while traveling away from home. I also recommend some version of these to many. Today’s video is a simple 5 min flow that involves basic yoga type stretches and some simple bodyweight moves. No equipment needed. This isn’t a routine in use to get sweaty and all that. I primarily use this for “unwinding” my body from sitting too much and sleeping on not-so-soft surfaces. At the very least, it might make you feel a little better to start your day.

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New Weekly Tipz! This week i talk about the simple fact that having only one gear in life, especially with regards to fitness & health, is typically not so desirable. Sometimes we need the flex to shift up or down a gear to make continued progress with any chosen goal. The key is always balance. Too much or too little (aka “all or nothing”) may work for some for a little while but the middle is what i believe to be the true path to longterm success and most importantly, our health and longevity.

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In my mind, there are 2 HUGE (extremely popular) exercise myths that have created a lot of problems, as well as helped construct unnecessary barriers for many. However, there are a million reasons (excuses) why most don’t and won’t exercise. I have heard them all. Not enough time is most often what i hear. This week i talk about why most of us don’t need to do exercise extremely hard or extremely long to get what we need done. But don’t misunderstand me, exercise is most certainly supposed to be work. It’s supposed to be challenging. If we don’t continually challenge our minds, bodies, etc, we’ll never really evolve and/or improve. Exercise is important because when done properly, it improves many aspects of health. Losing body fat is just a very, very small part of that. Just because something (anything) is “good” for us does not mean a whole lot more of it is always automatically better.

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New Health & Fitness Tipz! Today i talk about “Squatting”. Most people hear that and think: an exercise. But it’s much more than that. Even if you never plan to “workout” again, you still should be able to squat down without it looking like total dogsh*t. The point is, you need to be able to safely squat down fairly low till the day you die. But this requires some knowledge and will take some practice. Today’s video is not about trying to teach anyone how to squat correctly(that would be a much longer video), but more for ideas on where to begin. Start today. Learn to squat again. If you are not an “exerciser” then try getting down and hanging out in the bottom part of the squat, much like a daily stretch. If you have seen the light and do practice movement on a regular basis, include squats in every workout, either as part of your warmup or as a main dish. The point is to move better and squatting is a fundamental part of that huge equation. Enjoy.

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We all love simple, short answers to the questions we have. But unfortunately, when it comes to many Fitness/Health/Medical questions, there are rarely simple, short, definitive, one-size-fits-all answers. I wish there were but such is life. The main reason for this is that we are all uniquely different. What works for one of us might not work for all of us. And what seems to work right this moment, might not continue to work so well down the line. Things change, especially our bodies and even more, our lives. The key is to focus on where each of us finds ourselves at any point in time. There are answers to most of our questions but are likely to be found only through patience, perseverance and putting in some serious work. And that work typically makes most of us better than we were before, anyhow.

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