The Pilates One-Leg Circle
By Brooke Marrone
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The Pilates One-Leg Circle exercise is a fantastic way to work your core and tone your thighs.
The Single-Leg Deadlift
By Brooke Marrone
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The Single-Leg Deadlift is a full-body movement that will challenge your balance, strength, and flexibility.
Fitness Saturday: The Clamshell Exercise
By Brooke Marrone
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The clamshell exercise not only tones your hips but also plays an important role in keeping your back, knees, and hips healthy and strong.
Fitness Saturday: The Back Lunge
By Brooke Marrone
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Today's exercise, the back lunge, is not only effective at targeting all of the major muscle groups in your legs, it also places less stress on the knee joints; It’s a great move for beginners to start with.
Fitness Saturday: The Lateral Lunge
By Brooke Marrone
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The Lateral Lunge is an important exercise; it not only targets the gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles, as traditional lunges do, it also builds strength in your abductor and adductor (inner and outer thigh) muscles, which are often ignored.
Fitness Saturday: The Single-Leg Bridge
Brooke Marrone
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This exercise does a lot for you: It works your hamstrings, quads, glutes, calves, abdominals, and lower back.
Fitness Saturday: The Side-Lying External Rotation Exercise
Brooke Marrone
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The Side-Lying External Rotation Exercise is another post in our series of Fitness Saturday exercises and workouts appropriate to women in the second half of life.
Fitness Saturday: The Seated-Row Exercise
Brooke Marrone
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The Seated Row is one of the best ways to strengthen your back and improve your posture. This one move works almost every major muscle in your back and can be done just about anywhere.
Fitness Saturday: Kneeling Tricep Kickbacks
Brooke Marrone
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This one exercise—amazingly—works all three tricep-muscle heads, and the more muscles you recruit with each move, the better.
Fitness Saturday: Standing Leg Extensions
By Brooke Marrone
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Standing leg extensions are one of the best and most safe knee strengthening and balance exercises. Try this move 2 to 3 times a week and you should see immediate results!
Fitness Saturday: Side-Lying Inner-Thigh Exercises
By Brooke Marrone
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Working the adductor muscles not only helps your legs look better, it's also an incredibly effective exercise for strengthening the knees, ligaments, and tendons, and also improving bone density.
Fitness Saturday: Doing the Superman
By Brooke Marrone
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The Superman and Modified Superman are both great ways to "wake up" the back of the body and strengthen your glutes, hamstrings, and lower back.
Fitness Saturday: The Bridge
By Brooke Marrone
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This week’s exercise, The Bridge, is an amazing and safe way to help shape and strengthen your bum, build muscle, improve core stability, and increase flexibility
Fitness Saturday: The Side-Lying Leg Lift
By Brooke Marrone
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This week’s exercise, the Side-Lying Leg Lift, is one of my favorite go-to moves; it was recently named one of the very best thigh-toning exercises by the American Council on Exercise.
Fitness Saturday: The Step-Up
By Brooke Marrone
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We continue to celebrate American Heart Month with our exercise of the week, the Step-Up! This fantastic, functional exercise is great for increasing strength and stability in your lower body and improving your heart health.