Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

If you’re a runner, then you know how important it is to stretch your calves, it’s as important as a hamstring stretch! Your Calf… or Gastrocnemius.  First, etymology…gastrocnemius comes from the Greek.  Breaking down the word, ‘gastro’ means belly and ‘kneme’…

If you wake up listless or grumpy, or just don’t quite want to get up yet, here’s a simple Yoga Tune Up® pose that  you could do before you even get out of bed! (If there’s someone else in bed with…

Do you find it especially difficult to get out of bed these days? The bed is comfy cozy…. can’t we all just hit a global “snooze” button and wake up later? Unfortunately we’ve got things to do, people to see and…

Recently, one of my students discovered how tight her left shoulder was while I was teaching her the leg stretch series and practicing Yoga Tune Up® Leg Stretch #3.  Although this pose focuses on the lumbar twist, it is also a…

When my beginning senior students ask me what they should practice at home, I always prescribe Leg Stretches.  Never to overwhelm a new student with more things to add to their pressured day, I keep it simple by suggesting to start…

Earlier this spring, one of my students not-so-jokingly suggested I offer a YTU workshop for the Fiber Arts. After the chuckling subsided I considered the merit of her request. It had been a long, cold and very snowy New England winter—the…

We mouse, we drive, we hold things. We take for granted our ability to flatten our hands together in Anjali Mudra. Yet our fingers live in a chronic state of flexion—even at rest they curl in toward the palm. And for…

Sprains, fractures, carpal tunnel…wrists seem to get all the attention when it comes to any pain near the hand. And let’s face, it, with the exception of some arthritis or occasional soreness at the base of our thumbs, our hands serve…

Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but your obliques (the diagonal muscles that cross from the bottom of the ribs to the top of your pelvis) are in charge of making sure your ribs are properly aligned over your pelvis. If one…