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Core Muscles
You can look up “core muscles” and find that different people include different muscles in the group considered the “core muscle group”. But unless you are going to get that specific and train just...
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Nia and the Core
Nia thinks of the pelvis, chest, and head as the core of the body. Nia is not defining the core muscles or a core muscle group, Nia just includes these three body weights as the core of the body. The...
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Quadriceps
I subbed a Nia class in another part of San Jose today and so I had a different group of participants, and the routine we did today has a lot of bows in it. Watching the class do the bow stance made...
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Terre’s Ten Ten in Ten
Here is the Ten Minute Workout with some explanation. Questions and comments welcome. 1 – Long lunges: lunge with a long step with a dumbbell in each hand down at your side then come back up to...
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Hamstring Curls
In putting together the exercises for a Ten Minute Workout, I wanted to get a quick “full body” workout. I understand that this ten minutes might not target the ENTIRE body, but it gets most of it....
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Without a ball, a band, and a BOSU
If you are going to embark on doing the Ten Minute Workout, you can do it without a ball, a band, and/or a BOSU. You definitely don’t need those things. I would think if you were planning on...
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Year End Review Of Terre’s 2011 Important Posts – Part II
Not all of my posts on my list of Year End Review Of Terre’s 2011 Important Posts are Nia posts, but some of them are, Here are the remaining four of nine that I thought were important enough to...
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Muscles Used In Nia During Yoga-like Sequence
While Nia is not yoga nor is it a yoga class we do borrow from Yoga. We borrow some of the ideas and sometimes some of the poses. In one of the Nia routines we do the Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)....
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Roll Out The Hamstring
This is not like rolling out the red carpet or a ball of string because the hamstrings are not really strings at all. They are muscles in the leg. Well, actually the hamstrings are made up of three...
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Plank Muscles
While you are doing your plank you might notice some of the muscles involved in doing the plank. As I am sure you know, there are many variations to the plank. Many movement practices/exercise...
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