If you join New Trier for your fitness goals, you will get way more than what you bargained for! Being fit, means you are working to take care of your body, your health and your mind. A flexible mind is a fit mind. Lack of flexibility for our bodies is detrimental to our health, same […]
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Slow Your Roll Stretch…
Flex & Stretch Health & Wellness New Trier Adult Extension New Trier Classes
Myofascial release therapy performed by a therapist is a wonderful and healing experience. If you can afford to retain a therapist on a weekly basis, your body’s recovery from pain, due to injury, aging, or work related pain, will significantly improve. If a therapist is not as affordable weekly, join our classes! In a class […]
Benefits of Flexibility Training
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Static Stretching is characterized by low-intensity, long-duration muscle elongation, ideally in a supported position that allows the muscle fibers to relax. Static, stretching has been shown to help provide relief from delayed onset muscle soreness and to have a much lower risk of injury.
Stepping Your Way to Great Health!
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Learning to step, is just like learning to dance, with a little extra cardio. Once you learn the step patterns, it becomes much easier to follow. As the music speed increases, you will be flying across that the platform burning lots of calories while having lots of fun!
Positive Perception & Karvonen Formula Combined…
Cardiovascular Fitness Health & Wellness Karvonen Formula
On the opposite side looking at 160 bpm, you might think I was going to have a heart attack. However, from the charts, it’s actually a cardiovascular performance operating at 80-90%, which is fine, as I was working out regularly and I was in the proper condition for pushing myself. Obviously, you would not go […]
New Trier, Gates Gym Demolition
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Join us, while we remember the good times at Gates Gym!
Stretching And Your Healthy Body
Flex & Stretch Health & Wellness New Trier Classes
Lack of flexibility causes a whole host of problems for our bodies leaving us in a crippled like state of existence as we age, increasing the decline of our overall health. If movement increases our pain, we stop moving or we try to avoid that movement. As this happens, before we know it, we gain […]
Karvonen Formula
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Know your heart rate goals to maximize your training results. Get your resting heart rate before you start your math. Interval workouts will maximize your cardio results, increasing your performance will help you to lose weight and become cardio fit.