The Circle - Pilates and Personal Training

06/08/2017

04/07/2017

A chronic lack of sleep, a crowded subway or long commute, a sedentary lifestyle with hours on hours of sitting in an uncomfortable office chair looking at a 15-inch screen all take their toll on our bodies and lead us down the road of painful back, neck, and leg problems. In this fast world many …

26/06/2017

30/05/2017

Posture and anatomy are crucial factors in avoiding knee, back or hip pain and it all starts from the ground up. Your foot is a complex structure of 26 bones and 33 joints, layered with an intertwining web of more than 120 muscles, ligaments, and nerves. Your feet are extremely important for the ent...

20/05/2017

Some of these are pretty accurate...Happy Friday!

27/04/2017

18/03/2017

Before you ran you walked and before you learned to walk, you learned to crawl. Crawling is an integral piece of our kinesiological development and it is usually the precursor activity to walking. Crawling is an important functional milestone as it strengthens the muscles and connective tissues in…

03/03/2017

Baking soda is able to absorb the lactic acid that builds up in muscles during intense workouts. In turn it helps delay fatigue and enhance your athletic performance.

03/03/2017

We're going to share a secret with you: the fastest way to getting better on your bike is through strength training, not just riding your bike more. The trick is to do the right kind of

03/03/2017

The correct pronunciation of the psoas is “so-az.” The psoas is literally the deepest muscle of the human body. You have one on each side of the spine, attached to your sides and spanning laterally from the 12th thoracic vertebra to each of the lumbar vertebra.

23/02/2017

Planks are the single most effective exercise for your core, and can prevent many muscle imbalances, as well as prevent back pain and poor posture.

17/02/2017

Small tweaks in exercise form can lead to large increases in gluteal muscle activation, and this increased glute activation will lead to greater growth and development. Most gym goers have to learn these tweaks the hard way over the course of many years....