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What Works Blog

Mar 112015

Reasons to Train your Backside

Categories: Exercise, Gym, Healthy Life, What Works Blog|

We live in a society that SITS! Your glute muscles (your caboose) become inactive while you sit. This inactivity makes it difficult for your glute muscles to understand how to activate when you start running on the treadmill at the gym or go play tennis with a friend. So it’s important to take breaks from sitting through out the day ...

Mar 022015

Elements of Good Posture

Categories: Gym, Healthy Life, What Works Blog|

Posture is something often neglected, but this neglect could be causing you more pain than you realize. When posture goes kaput, then all your joints and muscles are taken out of their natural movement pattern. The result is injury or chronic pain. As you are standing, sitting, moving, exercising-take into account the alignment of your spine. Here is a short ...

Nov 182014

“What Works” Will working on my core muscles give me a flatter stomach?

Categories: Exercise, Gym, Nutrition and Weight Loss, What Works Blog|

Everyone has abs. Some people complain of “not having abs,” but the reality is that your abs are just covered by layers of fat. If you want to flatten your stomach and see abdominal definition, you must reduce the fat layers that are covering those sexy muscles. 4 steps to reduce fat in your stomach area are to reduce sugar intake in your diet, burn ...

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