Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

This entire week I’ve been playing with cross crawl and crawling exercises my private clients, from age 25-75, and have seen rapid improvement in balance, coordination, rhythm, flow, strength, and endurance. (Learn more about the benefits of crawling in my last…

How many times have we all been told that in order to embrace a bright shining future, we must let go of the past? That to move forward with freedom and ease, we must break old habits and patterns, and read…

In my last article, I wrote about how traumatic experiences can store themselves in your psoas and contribute to back pain. My self-care routine now combines varied movement – from Pilates, Yoga, and Yoga Tune Up® to cycling, swimming and even…

The first time I lied down on a Coregeous ball was nine months ago at the Hips Immersion. I hated it. This purple ball of fire made sick, it made me cry and it pissed me off. In fact, throughout the…

On Wednesday, we discovered that the “Cinderella” of our hip flexors, the bi-articular sartorius, could be an over-looked cause of muscular pain at the anterior hip and medial knee. Over and above an acute injury to the muscle, we should also…

While it may sound like an astrological star sign, the sartorius is actually the longest muscle in your body and a surprisingly common source of sartorius muscle pain. Stretching from the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) to the medial knee, it’s…

In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert begins with a chapter on courage. Twyla Tharp mentions fear by page fifteen in The Creative Habit and Julia Cameron tackles fear in “Week One: Recovering a Sense of Safety” in her practical guide for creatives,…

After reading and loving Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, Big Magic, I’m convinced there is a deep connection between freedom in our physical center and our freedom to create. Now, you might already be hovering your hand over your mouse to click…

In my last article, we learned about big toe extension and the one and only muscle that does this, the extensor hallucis longus (the EHL). We learned how a limited range of motion of the EHL can, over time, have disastrous…