Mindful Monday Week 27: What Now

Create a plan that identifies your triggers and unhelpful thoughts that alert you to losing control. Choose the 3-Minute Breathing Space as your first line of defense and then 1-2 practices that you find help you gather yourself. Then take action through either a pleasure or mastery activity. Finally list obstacles you have encountered in […]

Curtsy Lunge

Engages your quads and glutei, as well as your hips and gamstrings. source

Cross Toe Touches

Targets your rectus abdominis and obliques, as well as your pelvic floor. source

Cross Climbers

Increases heart rate, warms up muscles, strengthens shoulder and upper body and engages core. source

Crescent Lunge Tilt

Stretches the legs and hip flexors, opens the chest and shoulders and strengthens the thighs, hips and glutei. source

Crab Reach

Strengthens your shoulders and triceps, engages your core and glutei and stretches your side body. source

Crab Kicks

Works your shoulders and triceps, quads and hamstring and engages your core and glutei. source

Corkscrew

Deep stretch for the quads and hips. source

Cobra

Strengthens the wrists, arms, shoulders and back muscles. source

Cobra Lat Pulldown

Targets and strengthens back muscles, improves posture and prevents low back pain. source

Clockwork Lunge

Targets your quads and glutei with your hamstrings, core and back muscles working as stabilizers. source

Clamshells

Strengthens your glutei and increases stabilization of your inner and outer things and your pelvic floor. source

Child's Pose

A restful pose that stretches the low back and inner thighs. source

Cat Cow

Increases spinal and back muscle flexibility and stretches the hips and abdomen. source

Camel

Stretches the entire front of the body, strengthens back muscles and improves spinal flexibility. source

Butt Kicks

Cardio exercise for warm-up or circuit training. source

Burpees

Great cardio and full body workout exercise. source

Bridge March

This exercise helps engage the core, and works the glutei and hamstrings. source

Boat Hold

This exercise helps engage and strengthen your core. source

Bird Dog

This exercise engages your core, works the chain of back muscles (lats, trapezius, rhomboids, erector spinae, etc) and glutei. source

Biceps Curls

Regular biceps curls typically target the biceps, while twisting curls can also target the brachioradialis. source

Bent Over Row

This strength training exercise primarily works back muscles (lats, trapezius, rhomboids and posterior deltoids), as well as the erector spinae (lower back muscles) and biceps. source

Seated Spinal Twist

Use this exercise to increase spinal rotation and supports flexibility in the erector spinae (lower back muscles). source

Bear Squat Hold

The Bear Squat Hold (or Hovering Table Top) engages your core and works your quads and shoulders. source

Bear Crawl

The bear crawl is a great exercise that works your shoulders, core and quads. source