Learn How to Engage Your Core Muscles

Learn How to Engage Your Core Muscles

The 29 muscles of your core – from the top of your chest to your hips including the front and back – provide the force to stabilize and move the body segments. The following videos with Krista Schultz, MEd, CSCS discuss the core area and show you cues that...
How to Do the Scorpion Exercise to Increase Hip Range of Motion

How to Do the Scorpion Exercise to Increase Hip Range of Motion

The scorpion is a dynamic warm-up exercise for opening and increasing range of motion in the front of the hips (hip flexors) and the loosening and opening the spinal cord and surrounding musculature. Krista Schultz, MEd, CSCS demonstrates how do the scorpion exercise...
Krista Demonstrates the Ski Lunge Exercise

Krista Demonstrates the Ski Lunge Exercise

Tight hips or back? The ski lunge (or skater lunge) is a dynamic stretching exercise for the hips that helps to improve lateral range of motion in the lower body. The lateral angle of the motion opens the hip musculature that works in that plane of movement and can...