January 6, 2007 Newsletter
Sit up straight, shoulders back, hold your stomach in, now turn your head, look over your right shoulder and hold that position for 30 seconds. Turn your head to the left & hold again followed by tucking your chin to your chest & holding. If you can, drop your head back & look at the ceiling & hold. That is one stretch our speaker Tonya Grier showed us to prepare us for simple daily tasks like driving & looking over our shoulder.
Tonya is a personal trainer at Fit One, teaches Boot Camp, Pilates & Hour of Power with weights in her spare time from her job as a Paralegal. She gave us a really good interactive presentation of many basic stretches and exercises we can do from seated or standing positions. It was a great reminder of things we can & should do. For example for arms… when seated in a chair with arms just hold onto the arms and gently lift yourself up & straighten your arms for 10 reps. for shoulders….hold your arms straight out to the sides & rotate for 10 reps then change directions for 10 reps. For thighs….standing hold onto the back of a chair for balance, bend your knees and with knees always behind toes squat down as far as comfortable for 10 reps. For calves…simply stand holding that chair again and rise on your tip toes up & down then do it again with your toes pointed in & again with toes pointed out. Remember to always hold that core stomach muscle in whenever you think of it during the day. That one isometric exercise does wonders. These few simple movements alone can really help wake the body up a bit.
Tonya left a few minutes early to participate in a seven mile run! She was truly an inspiration and promises to come back to show us some things we can do with rubber tubes….stay tuned.
Again, the winner of our Brain Teaser was David O’Connor who knew that another ship spontaneously sank after the Titanic because after the sinking of the Titanic, new laws were passed that basically said that ships had to be safer. One ship went overboard and loaded it with too many lifeboats and because of all the extra weight from the lifeboats it sunk. David won a $25 gift certificate from Lowe’s. We will have another one next month and we really hope someone can unseat David!
Next month, Feb. 3rd, we are working on having two doctors together just to answer our questions…Another major program and we will keep you posted.
Happy New Year to All!!
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