Exercise Snack Videos
We have great videos for you to watch and share on topics such as stretching, boosting your range of motion, strengthening your body, techniques to reduce pain, and some surprises along the way to feel fit and youthful. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel for monthly exercise tips! Until then, stay active and always listen to your body!
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Strength & Mobility of the Upper Body with Resistance Tubes
by Lori Michiel | Jun 1, 2022
Using resistance tubes or flat resistance bands, these movements will help improve shoulders, external rotators and your posture. Some of these exercises are excellent therapy for those with shoulder injuries. Use varying lengths of your tube or band to make each...
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Improve Your Core at 84
by Lori Michiel | May 1, 2022
As we age, balance is key to maintaining our health. Planks are an outstanding way to work our core muscles AND improve our balance. Here is an easy, modified plank exercise that protects the back while strengthening the core. And what better way to celebrate Older...
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Improve Your Core at 70+
by Lori Michiel | Apr 1, 2022
Seniors, 70-plus, can strengthen their main core (the muscles deep within the abdominals and back that attach to the spine or pelvis or minor core muscles that include your lats, traps and glutes) with plank exercises. As you’re beginning this type of movement, it is...
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Improve Your Core at 60+ – Advanced Plank
by Lori Michiel | Mar 1, 2022
Here is a more advanced plank exercise done by balancing on your forearms and bracing your torso. This movement both strengthens your core and can help an achy back. When just beginning, hold for 20 seconds and increase this hold, as you progress, up to one minute....
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Slim Your Waist and Strengthen Your Back with Side Planks
by Lori Michiel | Feb 1, 2022
Lori demonstrates an intermediate side plank for those who have been exercising and may want something a little extra to help their core and back strength—and to build confidence! This video shows three modifications with increasing challenges: knees bent, legs...
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Advanced Balance Exercise for Seniors
by Lori Michiel | Jan 1, 2022
Here’s another challenging way to practice your balance. While looking straight ahead, focus on your support leg and try walking on an uneven/unstable surface. Once you’ve mastered this, you might try small head movements to the left or right or up or down....
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Balance Exercise for Seniors
by Lori Michiel | Dec 1, 2021
These exercises offer some challenge by walking heel to toe while using a bar for balance. How is your balance? Click here to take our Balance Profile Quiz! https://youtu.be/RRwy3-87DMw
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Exercises for Balance Emphasizing Breathing
by Lori Michiel | Nov 1, 2021
It’s not just seniors! All of us could improve our balance. As we age, our balance may start to deteriorate. Begin by standing straight and paying attention to your posture. Lift your sternum, roll your shoulders back and start to breathe by expanding and contracting...
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The Best Stretch for Weak Hamstrings
by Lori Michiel | Oct 1, 2021
Tight hamstrings can cause you to walk incorrectly. Here’s a simple pose, using a table, you can do to help stretch out the hamstring. Another option would be to try any other stable surface, such as your kitchen counter or table, as long as it is hip height when you...
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Stretch Out Your Hips in Three Minutes
by Lori Michiel | Sep 1, 2021
As we age, our hips can tighten up, in turn causing pain while sitting, standing or even lying down. Seniors can help open their hips by stretching the fascia, the connective tissue between muscles. Here are two rotating exercises done on a mat to help loosen the...
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Tight Hamstrings and Calves be Gone
by Lori Michiel | Aug 3, 2021
Many older adults and seniors suffer from back pain. This can be caused by tight muscles elsewhere. Here Lori demonstrates exercises for your ankles, hip flexors, hamstrings and calves to help eliminate lower back pain. https://youtu.be/2iy4a55UraM
![Relief for Soreness in the Hip: Two Stretching Exercises to do at Home](https://lorimichielfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/LMF_July2021_VideoImage_062821_400x300.jpg)
Relief for Soreness in the Hip: Two Stretching Exercises to do at Home
by Lori Michiel | Jul 1, 2021
What many believe are (sore) muscles, may actually be fascia. Fascia is the connective tissue that surrounds our muscles that can be strained from too much sitting, walking or standing incorrectly. Here are two great fascia stretch exercises demonstrated on the floor...
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