The Bar Method

Floor zinger certainly puts the zing in seatwork, and we love that this barre exercise not only sculpts your gluteus maximus, but tones your hard-to-target gluteus medius, too!

Exercise of the week... Pushups This is the ultimate perseverance exercise. Some of us love them, others hate them, but all of us benefit from them. Pushups, regardless of whether you're doing them on your knees, the balls of your feet, or modifying at a stable surface, activate every muscle in your body, while also spiking your heart rate. The Bar Method style of pushups specifically targets your upper back muscles, triceps, pecs, and abs. ... To set up for pushups, place your legs hip-width apart and parallel; if you're working on your knees, bend your legs, point your toes, and keep your ankles uncrossed. Next, place your hands a bit wider than shoulder-width apart and turn them slightly in. Finally, lift your hips up so they are in line with your ribcage, grip your glutes, pull you abs in, and lift your chin off of your chest. At Bar Method, you're told to do pushups a little differently lift your hips up to align with your ribcage, and as you move, bend your elbows diagonally back towards your ribs. Why? The lift in your hips helps you to protect your lower back and recruit your deep core muscles. The diagonal bend in your elbows allows you to separate your shoulder blades to better access your pecs, biceps, and triceps. Best of all, no need to bend your elbows all the way to 90 degrees to get the full benefits of this amazing exercise. Why not drop and give us 20 right now?!

With more people working from home over the past year, chiropractors say they've experienced a rising number of patients complaining about back pain. Whether it's from sitting at a make-shift desk or from more screen time, it's likely that your posture and back muscles have suffered. These five exercises from The Bar Method are physical therapist-approved methods for reducing back pain.

Dear Bar Method Scarsdale family... Perseverance: "continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition" (Merriam-Webster) You guessed it: the theme of this week is perseverance. After the year we've all had, none of us are strangers to this concept. It's pretty much engrained in in us at this point! However, it's incredibly meaningful to take the time to consciously think about your approach to perseverance; to work on your toolkit for con...quering adversity; and to purposefully embark on new challenges. Speaking of perseverance.... This is the final week of our our February Fire Giveaway, where 1 lucky client will get a full month of Zoom class FREE. To enter, all you need to do is take live Zoom classes: each time you take a class, you get an entry; the more classes you take, the greater your chances of winning the prize! Remember, you only get entries for live Zoom classes you attend. Now, let's go conquer this week, this month, this challenge, and this year! xoxo, Bar Method Scarsdale staff and teachers

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