Build your Glutes with this Strength Training Routine

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Build your Glutes with this Strength Training Routine

Strong glutes are essential, not only for aesthetics, but also for reducing your risk of injury and low-back pain. Plus, powerful glutes enable us to become more agile, jump higher, lift heavier, climb stairs, walk and/or run with less stress to the lower-chain joints, making everyday living and recreational activities more enjoyable and less taxing. Here are two three-exercise circuits that you can do at the home or gym to help build stronger, more powerful glutes.

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Team-building Exercises for Boot-camp Classes

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Team-building Exercises for Boot-camp Classes

Boot-camp classes present a great opportunity to facilitate a sense of camaraderie among your participants. Through team-building activities, participants focus on problem-solving, developing relationships and honoring everyone’s unique qualities and perspectives, all while working toward a common goal or completing a task. Here are four team-building activities you can use to help unite any group to exercise and work together.

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Feel Confident Teaching Any Group Fitness Format

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Feel Confident Teaching Any Group Fitness Format

The ACE Group Fitness Instructor Certification is an important first step in the evolution of a group fitness instructor. Once you understand the basics of leading a safe and effective class, motivation techniques, class design, music selection, applied anatomy and other key teaching elements can be easily applied to any group modality. Here’s a look at how the knowledge I acquired through the ACE Group Fitness Instructor Certification has given me the confidence to teach a variety of formats.

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Reap the Benefits of Rowing With 3 Fast and Efficient Workouts

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Reap the Benefits of Rowing With 3 Fast and Efficient Workouts

Rowing machines may not be the most popular machines in the gym, but maybe they should be. After all, rowing recruits many muscle groups and can provide a total-body, cardiovascular, muscle-building workout. Here is a brief primer on rowing technique, along with three fun and efficient rowing workouts to help you get started.

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Super Charge the Biceps Curl

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Super Charge the Biceps Curl

Everyone from bodybuilders and athletes to novice exercisers perform biceps curls, each striving for that athletic look the biceps help to achieve. And while the biceps curl is a fantastic exercise, the real fun comes from the countless variations you can try. Check out these challenging, super-charged biceps curl exercises from fitness pro Stephanie Thielen.

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How to Supercharge Push-ups

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How to Supercharge Push-ups

The push-up is a highly effective exercise—when done properly, it can help you build a strong core and upper-body strength in the chest, shoulders and arms. And, with a few variations, you can reap even more benefits. Whether you perform them from your feet or knees, give these four push-up variations a try and you’ll undoubtedly see improvements in your overall flexibility, athletic performance and real-life strength.

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