Maria Sollon, MS, CSCS, PES
‘Tis the season to be merry, loving, and joyous, whereas we embrace peace and concord of the festive season.
The vacations arrive in a rush and cross so shortly that we frequently are likely to lose observe of the true that means behind the festive season, which additionally leads to a scarcity of prioritizing time to our personal self-healing and improvement. Due to this fact, to honor the vacation season and your self, this four-part weblog collection focuses on “conscious actions” which can be expressed via totally different heartfelt vacation routines carried out in your Complete Gymnasium.
HEARTFELT SERIES OVERVIEW
This particular vacation collection comprises 4 blogs so that you can embrace and luxuriate in. Every weblog focuses on a phrase that correlate with a selected kind of exercise. The phrases are an acronym in your intention behind the actions of your Complete Gymnasium routine. The aim is to permit your thoughts and physique to attach and combine with a purposeful motion circulation.
Prior to every exercise, you’ll give attention to what this phrase means to you and set your intention. Then, carry out the workout routines within the exercise with the intention you’ve set to guide your strikes!
The exercises on this conscious motion collection embrace:
Half 1: LOVE | STRENGTH
Half 2: JOY | CARDIO
Half 3: PEACE | PILATES
Half 4: HARMONY | RECOVERY
By the top of this 4-part vacation weblog collection, you’ll have a particular program to carry out in your Complete Gymnasium. It will problem your thoughts and physique, whereas additionally lifting your spirits in the course of the vacation season, and into the brand new yr!
This exercise is designed to be environment friendly but efficient, making certain you keep constant in the course of the busy vacation season. Whether or not you’ve got 10 minutes or longer, a exercise on the Complete Gymnasium is a present to your physique and thoughts. The most effective present you may give your self is the dedication to a routine that retains you shifting.
Get able to deck the halls with festive exercises which have that means behind your actions!
WORKOUT #1: STRENGTH infused with L.O.V.E.
We kick off our festive health collection with the guiding pressure of LOVE. Love is the thread that binds us – to ourselves, our households, and the world. To embrace the essence of L.O.V.E. you’ll infuse it into a strong and festive strength-based exercise.
Intention: Give attention to the phrase LOVE.
Set Up: Low stage | hand weights
Instructions:
• Decide in your coronary heart, what LOVE means to you. Make this your intention for the exercise.
• Carry out every train in circuit format, (all 4 workout routines consecutively with little relaxation in between)
• Goal for 10-15 reps / train
• Repeat as many rounds as your time permits.
EXERCISES
L: lunges + lat raises
O: indirect pikes
V: v-ups
E: extensions
L: Lunges + Lat Raises (L)
• Visualize: Image your self lunging gracefully, the rhythm of your coronary heart aligning with the sleek extension of your limbs. Add lat raises, and all of a sudden, you are lifting not simply weights however the spirits of the season.
O: Indirect Pikes (O)
• Visualize: Indirect pikes invite you to sway like branches within the winter wind, partaking your core with each uplifting transfer. It isn’t nearly sculpting; it is about feeling the love in every twist.
V: V-Ups (V)
• Visualize: V-ups type the letter of victory, inviting you to rise and meet the problem. As you prolong right into a V form, really feel the love radiating via each inch of your being.
E: Extensions (E)
• Visualize: Prolong your limbs, prolong your gratitude. Extensions are greater than a exercise; they’re a conscious embrace of the energy inside, a nod to the love that fuels your journey.
Make sure to try the video to see an illustration of how these workout routines are carried out in your Complete Gymnasium.
Do not forget that LOVE is all you want in your thoughts, physique, and soul. There’s magic in each motion, so keep tuned for Half 2 for the place we’ll preserve unwrapping the present of JOY via an exhilarating cardio session that’ll have you ever dancing via the snow.
Love All the time,
Maria
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