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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 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: The Body Squat
By Brooke Marrone
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As we continue to build our foundation for a healthy body, we shift our focus this month from the core to the heart. February is American Heart Month, and it's a great time to check in with yourself and see if you are taking the necessary steps to keep your heart healthy and strong.
Fitness Saturday: The Bicycle Twist
By Brooke Marrone
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Finally, an ab exercise where you get to lie on your back!
Fitness Saturday: Doing the High Plank Knee Cross
By Brooke Marrone
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Most people have very tight and short hip flexors (inner hip muscles), so this exercise is a great way to increase your flexibility in that area.
Fitness Saturday: Doing the Bird Dog
By Brooke Marrone
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The best core exercises target multiple muscle groups with one move. I chose the Bird Dog because it does that and also works on balance and stability, two very important factors in establishing a strong core.
Fitness Saturday: The Elbow Plank Exercise
By Brooke Marrone
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"I chose the Elbow Plank as the first official exercise of 2015 because a strong core is the foundation of fitness. The Plank is one of the most important and effective exercises to have in your routine."