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8 Thoracic Spine Exercises to Keep Your Spine Young with Pilates
Thoracic spine exercises are key to feeling youthful throughout every season of life. In fact, all spine strengthening and lengthening exercises help to keep you feeling young. If your spine is strong, mobile, and resilient, your body will feel youthful no matter your age! As Joseph Pilates, creator of the Pilates method, once said: “If…
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How to Age Intentionally: Breathwork for Each Decade
In a world that seems to place a premium on looking young, at Lindywell, we’re focused on how to age intentionally. We want you to feel young at heart and light in your soul while embracing each age and stage you go through. When I first discovered breathwork in my 40s, my only regret was…
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Incorporate Healthy Habits into Your Life with Habit Stacking
If you are at a place in your life where you would like to incorporate healthier habits into your daily routine or let go of some habits that are holding you back from becoming the healthiest version of yourself then you won’t want to miss this episode. You’ll learn how to make a plan to…
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10 Plank Alternatives to Build Lifelong Core Strength
Plank alternatives are a great way to honor your body. While we have no issue with planks here at Lindywell—we love them!—we also recognize that this type of exercise is not for everyone. Planks can be difficult or downright painful if you’re struggling with chronic pain in your shoulders, wrists, or spine. They can also…
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8 Reasons Mindful Movement Will Make Your Fitness Routine (Finally) Stick
Mindful movement changed the fitness game for me. I spent years exercising without any sense of what my body needed or how it actually felt. Coincidentally, I could also never stay consistent with any program or routine. I’d be invested and excited for a few months and then life would get busy and all of…
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5 Benefits of Wall Sits (for Just One Minute Each Day!)
The benefits of wall sits go much further than just getting you through the dreaded middle school PE tests! While not all fitness challenges have stood the test of time, wall sits are still one of the most effective ways to build strength in your core and lower body. That’s why I love this movement.…
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Motivation vs. Consistency: Which One Helps You Build Lifelong Habits?
In the battle of motivation vs. consistency, which one wins? While both can be key components of your health and fitness journey, we at Lindywell believe one is better at helping you build lifelong habits than the other. The difference between these two may not be so obvious on the surface, so let’s break down…
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How to Cultivate Happiness Within Using Pilates and Breathwork
We all want to cultivate that sense of true happiness within, but if this mood seems impossible to maintain, I see you. A recent global survey found that 45 percent of respondents have not felt happiness in more than two years. Another 25 percent are not even sure what it means to be happy. Most…
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A peek into my current workout routine + a new strength training series
Changing seasons in life call for different kinds of workouts and adjustments to wellness routines. At Lindywell, we’re all about honoring the season you’re in, meeting your body where it is, and adjusting as necessary. My season of life is changing which is why I want to share what I’m currently doing in my workouts,…
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Mat Pilates vs. Weight Training: Why You Don’t Have to Choose
If you’ve been playing the Pilates vs. weight training game (Which one is better? Which one should I choose?)—I have good news: you don’t have to choose. Even better, when you combine Mat Pilates (Pilates without a reformer, which is what we do at Lindywell) with weight training, you reap the benefits of both. When…