Exercise and Fitness

Lisa Byrne

Lisa Byrne is the owner and CEO of Pilates for Sport in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She has a B.S. in Exercise Physiology, and is a Certified Pilates Instructor. Lisa has been in the Health and Fitness Industry for more than 23 years, operating her fully-equipped Pilates studio since 1999. Visitors to the movement studio span a wide range of physiques and abilities, and include average boomers looking for diversity; young people with Asperger's-Autism; hard-core athletes looking to “loosen up”; and those in need of chronic pain management through movement.

Lisa’s website is MoveMoreToday.com.

Use Your Past As a Guide

Those past fitness accomplishments that came so easily don’t serve you anymore...so stop the desire to “get back on track.” That track is overgrown with grass. That train has left the station. So why are you trying to get back on it?

Moving Forward

There’s so much room we give ourselves to avoid accepting what we need to do to be healthy. If there’s a gap, we make it a ravine and allow ourselves to drop into it. It really boils down to one thing: accepting responsibility.

Strike A Pose

If your car’s wheels are out of alignment, you’ll feel the pull. Same with your body. Once you teach it what good posture feels like, it doesn’t want to sway, sink, slouch, or slump. But It doesn’t get done to you. You have the work to do.

HIIT It, Boomer!

In the world of fitness, HIIT means High Intensity Interval Training. HIIT is popular because it works. It shuffles aside all that blah, blah, blah information and gets down to the nitty gritty of what you want: to get fit.

Functional Rocks

Given the millions of Baby Boomers who are aging into bold and dynamic seniors, one of the big emerging trends is functional resistance training. In fact, it’s hard to even call it a trend considering the power it packs behind it.

Boomer: Actively Aging or Dormantly Dying?

Your life is about movement. Life is not dieting. It never will be. Your health and wellness is about being able to complete your mission in life, whatever that may look like. The bottom line is, you have to do the Work. Yes, work with a capital “W.”

Are You Limiting Your Resistance Band Workout?

A pair of premium resistance bands can work better than a traditional, linear, (boring) fitness program. But there’s one huge limiting factor in how they’re typically used, and you may be missing a huge movement opportunity.

A Unilateral Approach to Good Balance

Here’s the best way to get better balance: do unilateral exercises, regularly. Unilateral exercises are those that use only one side of your body. And you’ll get the best benefit if you incorporate several muscle groups (i.e. arm, low back, and hip).

Sitting Out Good Health

We’re not built to sit for long periods of time. Our bones, our muscles, our nerves—every bodily system is improved by movement. If you move more frequently and sit less than you do during the day you’ll improve your health in a myriad of ways.

Park Once

Gargantuan, colossal, whopping multiplexes that offer “one stop shopping” also offer a unique fitness opportunity. The fact is, they’re so large that you can get a pretty good workout simply by never moving your car once you’ve parked it.