Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

How I became the chubby kid As a child, I was given free reign to eat whatever I wanted. This meant daily bowls of crushed oreos in milk, after-school snacks of burgers and fries as a “treat” for answering phones at…

I’ll be brutally honest with you: when I did my first yoga teacher training, I didn’t understand the mandatory anatomy part. At all. For three long, painful days, I tried to concentrate really hard and write down everything the teacher was…

Have you ever wondered what your yoga teacher means when she instructs you to “go deeper into the pose?” What exactly does this cue mean? Let’s say you’ve been holding the pose for a while, and are already shaking and trembling. Then instead of…

We all store stress in various places around our bodies. Most of us store it in places like the neck and shoulders, the low back, and also in the belly. All very complicated parts of the body, and in times of acute pain, they…

Your shoulders shrug for a number of different conscious and unconscious reasons. But the culprit holding the stress in your body is the trapezius muscle. The hood over your neck and shoulders, the large sting ray shape that covers your cervical…

  My client, R, spent last winter making tremendous improvements in her health. She lost 45lbs and gained a wonderfully healthy respect for her body. Now spring was around the corner and she had a goal to start running again. She…

I inherited many traits from my grandmother. Her hazel eyes, her inclination to let her husband do all the cooking, and, without a doubt her weak ankles. Or so I thought. While not particularly klutzy (although it’s probably no accident that…

Having discussed the bony architecture, let’s look at the muscular support for your feet! Fibularis Longus is a foot everter and helps plantar flex the ankle. It runs down the lateral side of the fibula from just below the knee. It’s…

“Lift your toes to ground down…elevate your arches…don’t allow your foot to roll to the inner edge…” All easily executed actions in standing poses, until it feels like someone is driving a nail through your foot. By and large, we trikonasana,…