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Your Workout:
Everyone has different needs when it comes to a workout
routine, but the core requirements for getting fit is
to focus on building strength, stability, and flexibility.
With a few simple tools, and a commitment to a weekly
routine, you will be fit and feel better than ever.
Below is a list of applications you can expect to perform
Contact Vitality today to get
started
Body Ball, Balance and Stability Exercises
Stability ball exercises are designed to improve flexibility,
balance, and coordination as well core strength. They’ll
also help stabilize your spine to prevent injury to
the lower back and hips.
Core Strength
The "core" refers to the region of the trunk
that includes the abdomen, back, and hips. The core
is considered the central stabilizing area for the rest
of the body. It's important in producing forces and
in transmitting forces. The core consists of the abdominal
muscles, low back muscles, diaphragm, and pelvic floor
muscles.
Elastic Resistance Training (ERT)
With a single piece of elastic resistance band, you
can strengthen all the important muscle groups in the
body and avoid the bulk and expense of bulk and expense
of resistance-exercise machines. Another advantage is
that there’s no time wasted setting up equipment
or moving to different machines. Because of its versatility,
portability, and affordability, ERT is ideal for anyone
involved in an exercise program. In addition, elastic
resistance enhances any type of training you are interested
in, from strengthening to flexibility to speed and agility.
Best of all, you can put elastic bands in your pocket
or purse and take them anywhere!
Jump Rope
Did you know that a jump rope workout can burn up to
1000 calories per hour, making it one of the most efficient
workouts possible? It tones muscles in the entire body,
developing long, lean muscles in all major muscle groups,
both upper and lower. A jump rope workout optimizes
cardiovascular conditioning and maximizes athletic skills
combining agility, coordination, timing, endurance.
Medicine Ball
The medicine ball is a multi-purpose training tool that
can be used alone or with a partner for improving core
strength, functional movement, muscle coordination,
and reaction time as well as improving overall strength
and flexibility.
Plyometrics
These types of exercises involve jumping movements.
For example, skipping, bounding, jump rope, hopping,
lunges, jump squats, and clap push-ups.
A plyometric exercise is an exercise in which an eccentric
muscle contraction is quickly followed by a concentric
muscle contraction. In other words, when a muscle is
rapidly contracted and lengthened, and then immediately
followed with a further contraction and shortening,
this is a plyometric exercise. This process of contract-lengthen,
contract-shorten is often referred to as the stretch
- shortening cycle.
Strength Training
Strength training exercises are based on such common
movements as lifting, pulling, pushing, and squatting.
By adding resistance – in the form of weights
or in some exercises, your own body weight – to
these simple movements and repeating them a specific
number of times, you overload your muscles. With regular
practice, and by progressively increasing the resistance,
muscles gradually adapt to each new load and become
stronger.
Swimming Skills
Improve your confidence in the water. Focus on basic strokes and breathing skills while improving endurance and power in the water. Whether you’re a beginner, recreational, or tri-athlete swimmer, working on swim skills will enhance your overall performance. Swim lessons are provided for ages two through adult.
See Swim Lessons page.
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