by Michelle Brown | Apr 12, 2016 | Boot Camp Blog, Technical
Knowing how to activate your core is essential to your fitness practice, and to your activities of daily living. Understating and practicing core activation is critical to staving off low back pain and injury. It encourages lumbar stability, thereby allowing the torso...
by Michelle Brown | Apr 5, 2016 | Boot Camp Blog, Motivation, Nutrition Bites, Technical
I thought I’d take a different approach to technical Tuesday and talk about some tricks to shedding fat! If you are struggling to tone up, there are tweaks you can make to your lifestyle to make gains in the right direction. Let’s quickly dip into human...
by Michelle Brown | Mar 29, 2016 | Mobility, Motivation, Technical
I love me some Technical Tuesday! The devil is always hiding in those details, so grab your weights, pull out that band, have a seat on that rower, its all about the PULL today! Pulling is an important functional exercise to explore as one of the 7 human/primal...
by Michelle Brown | Mar 22, 2016 | Technical
Push Ups have a new meaning for me after a my time learning this past week! Im so excited to share this information with you all. Try to approach this movement with your cup empty so that you get the most out of it! 1) Start with a firm core and a strong plank. Engage...
by Michelle Brown | Mar 15, 2016 | Boot Camp Blog, Mobility, Technical
Recovery. Its the one thing that many every day athletes neglect. Any pro athlete will tell you that recovery time is an essential part of your game. Today we will review the basics of what I call “Recovery Posture”, which is meant to reset the scapula,...
by Michelle Brown | Mar 8, 2016 | Mobility, Technical, Workout of the Day
At Gumsaba we incorporate corrective exercises during the warm ups and often throughout the workouts to enhance the symbiotic relationship of joints, tendons, ligaments, muscles and fascia. Under developed glute muscles are common. They cause a ripple effect down the...