I love teaching Women’s Weight Training at the Y. During our weekly sessions, we focus on total body exercises using both machines and free weights. I teach proper form and alignment as we do the basics like squats, lunges, chest presses, shoulder presses, rows and core work. We also work to improve balance, flexibility and [...]
So although now I am a Tough Mudder, I am and will always be a mom first. With that being said, this is the first time since I got home from the Tough Mudder on Sunday, that I have had a moment to sit and reflect on it. First, I would like to thank Valerie [...]
I wanted to take a moment to give a big thanks to everyone who helped support the Y’s recent Community Support Campaign. I’m actually saying thanks from the over 50 families who have been touched in the past year by the THRIVE program. I’m not sure that people really understand how much their support and [...]
One Friday night after work, I was out for my weekly dinner with my dad and I was telling him about the new ballet class I started taking at the Y. Our conversation started out in a simple, “What’s new?” kind of chit-chat, and quickly became a, “Dad, I can’t believe how amazing it is. [...]
What’s Your Style Lets face it. There are about as many styles of martial arts as religions. Karate, Taekwondo, Kungfu what’s the difference? I get this question all the time. He are a few of the more popular ones: Aikido is a Japanese art that consists of grappling. It flows with the motion of [...]