Fitness
Lara Trump Fitness Routine: Lara Trump's inspiring fitness routine and the secret behind her sculpted physique revealed | – Times of India
One of the Republican party‘s most influential members, Lara has demonstrated how she never really stopped challenging herself, even during her first pregnancy in 2017, when she continued to workout in the gym with her trainer Michael Maloney, setting fitness goals for expected moms. She may have drawn flak from a section of social media users for going overboard during this crucial phase in her life but also amazed many with her resolve and commitment towards fitness.
From cheerleading, horseback riding to running marathons, each of her fitness activities molded her into the person she is. Balancing her duties for her party and her commitment to fitness, no wonder Lara Trump is making headlines for setting the right goals for both her personal and work life.
Lara Trump’s favourite workouts that are inspiring the world
Lara in one of her podcasts The Right View talked about her favourite workouts and the story behind developing passion for each of the sport.
While growing up in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, Lara developed a liking for horseback riding when she tried her hands at it on her neighbour’s horses, as per her podcast The Right View. While she could convince her parents to give her horseback riding lessons, things didn’t always go smoothly during the training and she ended up suffering from an elbow injury. It was her love for the sport, then she broke both her wrists close to her wedding with Eric and had to wear casts during reception, she shared in the podcast.
Her passion for cheerleading
Lara didn’t let one single sport define her and there was a time when she was hooked to cheerleading. After failing to get into the “JV cheerleading team”, she didn’t lose her enthusiasm and after getting a pep talk from her father, she continued to practice and made it. If there is a lesson that one can grasp from failures, this definitely makes for an inspiring story.
Lara Trump’s love for running
During her cheer training in high school, a punishment turned into a blessing in disguise when Lara began to enjoy the task given by her coach to run 5 miles, she recalled in her podcast The Right View. She found out that she has it in her to be a runner and had endurance to run long-distance running. This is also Lara’s favourite activity to beat stress. Lara now aims to complete the Ironman triathlon in Kona, Hawaii where one has to complete a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run.
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Fitness
A flexibility expert says these are the three best stretches for fighting tight hips
In my time as a fitness writer, tight hips have been the most common complaint I’ve faced from readers. So I recruited a flexibility expert to explain why this might be the case, and what people could do to combat it.
“I believe a lot of it comes from sitting,” Cody Mooney, director of stretching app Pliability tells me.” Any time we do something for a long period of time there will be impacts, and these can be positive or negative.”
Sitting at a desk, day after day, can reinforce “poor posture patterns” and hold your hip flexors in a shortened position, leading to tightness, Mooney says. This tightness can make it harder to access certain positions, particularly during sports and strength training exercises like squats. “Compensation happens, and usually when compensation happens you get injuries,” he adds.
One way to counteract this is to strengthen the key muscles in and around the hips. Another is to stretch them. Consistent stretching does the opposite of sitting down all day, Mooney explains, elongating the muscles and “allowing your body to move as it should”.
If you want to give it a go and fight tight hips, Mooney says the three moves below are the best place to start.
How to do Cody Mooney’s stretching routine for tight hips
- Couch stretch
- Saddle
- Twisted lizard
Hold the stretches above for two minutes each. For the couch stretch and twisted lizard, hold them for two minutes on each leg.
“Allow yourself to be passive, don’t push yourself into discomfort where you don’t breathe, you’re sweating, you’re tense [or] it hurts,” Mooney advises.
He says you can do these stretches daily. Over time, he also recommends increasing the amount of time you spend in each position, gradually climbing up to five minutes.
“I think if someone spent five minutes a day in couch stretch, then saddle, then sat in pigeon for three or four minutes a day, that consistency would provide massive benefits,” he adds.
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The couch stretch
How to do it
- Kneel in front of a wall or another sturdy vertical surface.
- Place your right knee on the ground, near where the wall meets the floor, and extend your right shin upwards so it runs along the wall. The distance between your knee and the wall will depend on your flexibility level.
- Step your left foot forward into a lunge, so your left knee is forming a rough right angle, then lift your chest and gently push your hips forward.
- Hold this position for two minutes, then repeat on the other side of your body.
Benefits
“This is a wonderful stretch which targets the front of the leg and the hip flexor area,” says Mooney. “If you learn to loosen this area, it will benefit you in many ways.
“With pain, we often have to look up or downstream for the cause. People develop patella tendonitis [knee pain] if they have a lot of tightness in their quads, the muscles on the front of the thigh, as well as lower back pain.”
“Doing the couch stretch – loosening up the quads, hip flexors and piriformis [a muscle running from the lower spine to the top of the thighs] – will really help you loosen up the hips, and [ease] the nagging lower back that many people have.”
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The saddle
How to do it
- Start in a kneeling position, with your shins flat on the floor and your bum on your feet.
- Keeping your spine long, lean back as far as you are comfortably able, supporting your body with your hands.
- Hold this position for two minutes.
Benefits
“Saddle really hits the quads and hip flexors, which tighten up in that sitting position,” Mooney explains.
The hip flexors are in high demand in daily life too. These muscles’ primary function is bringing the knee towards the chest, meaning they play a role in walking, running, squatting and even standing.
“So much of that is hip flexor, so really you’re creating a tight muscle, leaving it tight, then never doing anything to counter that,” Mooney adds, prescribing the saddle stretch as a first step for remedying this.
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The pigeon pose
How to do it
- Start by sitting on the floor with your feet planted on the ground.
- Move your right leg so your thigh is straight out in front of you and your shin is lying perpendicular to your torso.
- Reach your left leg behind you so your left foot is flat against the floor, then place your hands on the ground for support and lean over your right knee.
- Hold this position for two minutes, then repeat on the other side.
Benefits
Given how frequently the hip flexor muscles are used on a daily basis, it pays to have them working smoothly. But, as Mooney says, “no lunch is free”, so you need to dedicate some time and effort to keeping them in good nick.
“I think the pigeon pose is great because it really hits the hip, glute and lower back area,” says Mooney. “When you can learn to release that, it can help people in multiple different ways.”
It can ease lower back and hip pain, Mooney says, as well as improving freedom of movement around the joint.
“By stretching, or elongating muscle groups [around the hips] and allowing joints to function properly, you might not take away all of the negatives of sitting at a desk for eight hours every day, but you’re at least being proactive in an approach to counter some of them and allowing your body to get back to its natural, proper position,” Mooney says.
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Fitness
I'm a health writer, and these are the 2 fitness tools helping me transition my workouts into the new year
I’m late to the smartwatch game, but I’m obsessed with my TicWatch Atlas, which has all the bells and whistles I need to stay on top of my workouts.
As a runner, my favorite feature is the built-in GPS, which allows you to track your runs, bike rides and hikes without the need to tote along a phone. I also love the heart rate monitor, which I use to stay in my target heart rate zones. If you’re new to the concept, following the American Heart Association’s guidelines is a good starting point.
In addition to offering multiple sports modes to track your workouts, including everything from swimming to yoga, the TicWatch Atlas syncs to your phone to make it easy to track a variety of health metrics. It provides a snapshot of your daily activity levels, sleep quality and even your current stress levels, by using heart rate variability. This is particularly nice during the holidays, when stress levels often spike. For instance, I may know I’m extra stressed, but seeing it reflected on the app is a good reminder to take a time out. Lately, I’ve been leveraging this information and opting to do a quick meditation session on ALO Moves to help keep me centered.
While I’m not particularly tech-savvy, this model is extremely user-friendly. The best part? It not only motivates me to stay active, but it gives me real-time data to reach my goals more effectively. If you lead an active lifestyle and love a good gadget, this smartwatch is a great option.
Fitness
Gainesville Health and Fitness: Running exercises
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) – Running is the preferred workout for many people.
Trainer Adam from Gainesville Health and Fitness tells us about the perfect form in this week’s Your Fitness.
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