Balance yourself and your world with CRAVE’s fitness tips

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January 13, 2010 by Kathy | Comments (1)

Keep your 2010 New Year’s resolution with these fabulous tips from two CRAVE women! Stacie Clark and Jillian Moriarty are fitness experts who have a passion for helping people of all ages reach and surpass their fitness goals, while having fun and staying relaxed.

Stacie Clark of Tiger Athletics
Stacie Clark is a true Crave gal! Stacie’s passion for teaching fitness is readily apparent in her fun and innovative training classes. Stacie believes that everyone has an inner athlete and can work harder, burn more calories and perform better in 2010! I have been taking her classes for over 10 years and can attest to the intensity, high energy and physical challenges Stacie brings to each class she trains. Never boring, always high energy with a quick wit, Stacie is an athlete herself and inspires people from all over the country to push towards tougher personal goals! Clients who have traveled to LA to check out the celebrity hot spots for “hard” workouts come back to Stacie and declare she is much tougher and they see better results from Tiger Athletics in good ol’ Minnesota! And, best of all, she does every move in class with the class — no slacking for Stacie. She teaches us what is good form, how taking it slow is better, why heart-rate is important, and best of all, that with our own drive we will push past our perceived limits and we can do it! Stacie is Tiger Athletics. Stacie and her husband Chris are a truly dynamic duo in cutting edge philosophy and create workouts geared towards improving performance and building confidence.

Tiger Athletics‘ philosophy is based on scientific research and the art of the coach, focusing on the eight skills of athleticism: agility, balance, coordination, strength, speed, stamina, power and flexibility.

Stacie Clark’s tips for everyone in 2010 – no matter what age or fitness level you are at, these tips are sure to help you meet your fitness goals! These tips tie in with Tiger Athletics overall philosophy of sound mind, sound body.

1. 11 Day Rule:  It takes 11 days to create a positive reinforced behavior (habit).  After you’ve established this, by then you should be able to gain enough knowledge and experience to move to the next level.  No matter what age or fitness level, everyone jumps off the bandwagon time and time again.  Stay focused and remember to implement a stretching or yoga protocol in your program to elongate muscles, increase ROM (range of motion), improve breathing, helps injury prevention and promotes recovery.

2. 10% Rule:  Use this guideline to improve training performance without risk and injury.  What do I mean by that?
Whether you are just beginning a new exercise program or training for your tenth race, it is essential to progress at the right pace to meet your goals and avoid injuries.  Increase your time or length of workout by 10% a week, gradually.  The 10% rule is an easy way to gauge your training increases to get the most from your workouts while reducing your risk of injury.

3. Involve the family.  Families that train together, stay together.  Get the kids involved and set the example.  It’s a lifestyle.

stacie@tigerathletics.com
tigerathletics.com
612-695-8770

Jillian Moriarty of Happily Ever Active
Jillian Moriarty is a busy mom and wants other moms to feel her energy, excitement and happiness about getting healthy and staying healthy with your family! She is a true Crave gal for sure! She owns multiple fitness and health related businesses, and has developed her own DVD for Target stores nationwide for mom and baby fitness.  Her businesses are not just about FITNESS — they are learning, literacy, speech, language therapeutic interventionists, nutrition, aromatherapy, massage, and based off of yoga and Pilates. Jillian Moriarty is a  MSPT – Physical Therapist, Certified Pilates Instructor, Certified Yoga Instructor, Thai Yoga Body Practitioner, Nationwide Presenter and Instructor, President and Founder of 2 fitness businesses.

Happily Ever Active offers fun, healthy programs for families and kiddos of all ages. Fit2gether is the yoga and Pilates based classes; belly2baby&beyond covers everything for pre- and post-natal health including yoga and Pilates programs; Interactive Storyoga combines early literacy and language mixed with movement; and Cook2gether are cooking and nutrition classes and workshops.We love these hot tips for staying calm, relaxed and fit in 2010 from someone who is living it herself!

Jillian’s 3 Tips for Busy Moms (Families) to Live Happily Ever Active:

1. Bring Balance into your life:  You and your kids will listen better and improve focus and attention when you BALANCE – Literally!  Whether brushing your teeth, quizzing your kiddo on spelling, trying to get you tot to listen, washing the dishes, playing catch – Stand on one leg both of you!  Normal Adult Single Leg Stance Values = 60 secs + without use of hands or help!<

2. Learn Sun Salutation A: Google it!  You do not have to be pretzel-like in you flexibility to practice yoga. In fact, a traditional sun salutation is not just for flexibility, but also warms the body, works the heart, burns calories, strengthens the core, tones the arms, lengthens the spine. focuses the mind and, well, – makes for a happy day!  And you can do 5 Sun Salutations in under 5 minutes!  With you little ones practice counting out loud with each pose or challenge your teens to a Chaturanga-double-dog dare: How many times in a row from Down Dog through Chaturanga in a row!<

3.Commercial Break for the Core:  So you are catching up on the news or watching your favorite family show – It’s OK – we know you watch TV, just don’t be a couch potato.  Forget DVR and fast forward – during commercials is a great time to tone the core. For one minute each practice these 3 Pilates Moves:  1-Roll Down:  Sit with legs out straight and slowly and smoothly roll down to back one vertebrae at a time then back up without lifting your legs or hunching the shoulders please!  2- Teaser Hold – Sit in a “V’ shape with legs as straight as you can (bend to modify) – then try to lift arms up to sky  3-Side Twist:  Begin on hands and knees then move into a modified Right side plank by lifting left arm to sky and extending left leg out and back with foot strongly anchored to ground and held in place.  Twist at Waist to bring left arm under right- repeat for 30 secs then switch to other side 30 secs.

info@livehappilyeveractive.com
LiveHappilyEverActive.com
612-860-1113

One Response to “Balance yourself and your world with CRAVE’s fitness tips”

• Cara Thorpe Says:
  
  January 19th, 2010 at 5:01 am

  Jillian has combined fitness, fun, and parent-child bonding; she leaves everybody smiling at the end of class. Her DVDs are easy to follow and offer a great break from the MN winter “what should we do” routine. Fabulous!

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