Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

As reassuring (or sometimes annoying) the suggestion to “just take a deep breath” is, especially when you are in a moment of panic, there is a fundamental truth to this advice on how we can calm ourselves and sooth our nervous…

Meet Trina Altman, a member of our teaching team who teaches Yoga Tune Up® at Equinox Santa Monica and Equinox Palos Verdes, Pilates Deconstructed™ Reformer classes at The Moving Joint in Mar Vista, and YTU Teacher Trainings nationally. How did you discover…

[Shoulder Tune Up Part 3] If you spend any amount of time sitting at a workstation during the day, the muscles of your upper back, especially the ones between the shoulder blades, can become overtaxed and loaded with tension. Hopefully, you…

[Shoulder Tune Up Part 2] If you sit at a computer regularly, the muscles of the upper back and neck can get very tight holding the weight of your neck and head all day. For every inch your head comes forward…

[Shoulder Tune Up Part 1] You know that spot at the top of your shoulder that is constantly filled with tension and in KNEAD of a massage? The trapezius is large muscle of the upper back that runs from the base…

Picture this: Sheila is a devoted yoga practitioner and likes to stay fit by lifting weights and playing sports when she isn’t sitting in front of her computer or driving her son to and from school.  She continually complains of pain…

Do your clients complain they have pain in their hands and wrists while in downward dog, plank, performing a chaturanga and any position where they are bearing weight on their hands with the wrists in extension? We have many muscles in…

On Wednesday I spoke about some of the modifications you can make to accommodate your growing belly, and mentioned foregoing certain yoga poses to help prevent diastasis recti prevention. Experts say that you don’t develop DR as a result of pregnancy.…

In Part 1 of my blog post about mammahood, I spoke about the importance of good posture and shared tips to facilitate the breath using the Coregeous® ball. In part deux of this three-part series, I’m now well past the first…