The most effective way that I’ve found to teach and learn the basic squat movement without weights.
Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
The burpee is one of the best all around full body conditioning exercises. It’s not for everyone though.
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Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
This is one of my favorite bodyweight exercises. It works all of the leg muscles in addition to heavy emphasis on the hip abductors which are important for sports involving running. Hip Abductor strength can also help protect the knees.
Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
Heart Rate Variability is a way to measure the impact of all the various life stresses on our bodies. Because the central nervous system governs the heart rate, precise monitoring and measurement tells us how stressed the body is.
Each morning after measuring, it gives you a readout like this:
Or this:
Based on this reading I can tell whether to go hard or focus on stimulating the relaxation response that day.
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Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
Lesson Number 2 that I learned from Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is the following:
Here is the formula:
1. Ask yourself what is the worst that can possibly happen.
2. Accept the worst.
3. Try to improve on the worst.
Give it a shot!
Author: Nick Ortego is the owner of N 2 Action, a wellness studio in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, offering personal training, health coaching, yoga, and assisted stretching.
What’s the best way to stabilize your spine while you’re exercising? Should you pull your belly in? Or should you brace your abdomen without pulling it in? Here’s my take:
