Core
This collection of videos focuses on the importance of core strength with various workouts for the trunk and spine as well as therapeutic, prescriptive exercises. Strengthen the back, abdominal, shoulder, and hip regions as these exercises help you to rotate and bend without pain so that you can enjoy an active lifestyle. This video series is a must for any fitness program.
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Video 612 | Neck & Shoulder Pain Relief (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In this therapeutic workout, the stability ball is used in a supportive way to improve shoulder and neck stability. The round nature of the ball offers support as well as unique additions to many trunk-related exercises to benefit the shoulders and neck.
We begin with seated mobility as we mo...
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Live Event | Yoga Pilates Core Fusion (60 mins) with Lauren Eirk
Enjoy a fusion of static Yoga poses and dynamic Pilates movements fused together to target muscles that move the spine and hips. This workout is for all levels! A Yoga strap and a Pilates sponge / mini ball will be used to add resistance throughout the workout.
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Live Event | Yoga Spine Therapy: Rotation (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This moderately paced, Hatha Yoga therapy practice is designed to target muscles that rotate the trunk and spine. Discover areas of weakness by observing active range of motion. Using body weight, a yoga strap, and a mini ball, set up isometric resistance exercises by performing yoga asanas in ...
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Live Event | Core Mobility (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Want abs? We will strengthen the rectus abdominis, obliques, transverse abdominal and hip muscles to help you get more tone and strength in your core. This is a body-weight workout with many exercises in a variety of positions
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Video 580 | Spinal Stenosis Rx (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Spinal Stenosis can be a very painful condition, causing lower back pain, poor circulation in the legs, vascular conditions, and forward leaning. Commonly, it feels better when sitting and worse when standing. However, it is possible to exercise in a way that can strengthen muscles and reduce p...
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Video 579 | Trunk Flexion (9 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
If you are short on time, this micro workout is designed to give you some targeted resistance training for a very important area: The muscles that produce flexion in the trunk and spine. Remember that you are only as good as your core. When these muscles are weak, it is difficult to transfer for...
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Video 576 | Trunk Rotation: Micro Workout (10 mins) with Lauren Eirk
If you are short on time, this micro workout is designed to give you some targeted resistance training for a very important area: The muscles that produce rotation in the trunk and spine. Remember that you are only as good as your core. When these muscles are weak, it is difficult to transfer fo...
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Video 570 | Hip and Core Prehab (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Prehabilitation is the practice of keeping our joints healthy as preventative maintenance. It requires a constant revision of basic principles, patience, consistency, and practice.
This bodyweight routine is jammed full of hip and spine exercise essentials, designed to address some of the maj...
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Video 563 | Osteo-Spine (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
As we age, it is important to keep our bones strong, for people with more advanced osteoporosis have a higher risk of spinal fractures. For this reason, core training may be tricky, considering many are told by their health care provider not to rotate, bend forwards, or bend backwards.
In this...
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Video 561 | Yoga for Deep Core (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In this Yoga practice, we will focus on the lumbo pelvic-hip complex, which includes deeper muscles such as your internal obliques, transversus abdominis, multifidus, rotatores, semispinalis, quadratus lumborum, psoas, and superficial muscles, such as your rectus abdominis.
Using diaphragmatic...
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Video 531 | Core Foundations Day 3 (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
These core calisthenics exercises use concentric and eccentric resistance training, moving in and out of positions with the sponge ball, a thigh band, and bodyweight as resistance. Experience some traditional core exercises, such as crunches, knee to chest, and the criss-cross, followed by hip a...
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Video 505 | Pelvic Floor Incontinence Rx (15 mins) with Lauren Eirk
Stress urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine that occurs with increases in intra abdominal pressure (e.g., with exertion, effort, sneezing, or coughing) due to urethral sphincter and/or pelvic floor muscle weakness. This can affect anyone at any age, particularly those who part...
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Video 490 | Isometric Core Mobility Boost (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles. Enjoy improved mobility with improved spinal and hip stability using a series of rotation, flexion, and extension isometric exercises. You will not need any equipment for this workout. Think of...
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Video 483 | Seated Core (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Sometimes we have to sit for longer than we would like, in meetings, during traveling, or in periods of rehabilitation. Not only that, some have a difficult time getting down onto the floor to train the core.
In this express workout, you will only need your bodyweight and a chair to get thro...
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Video 477 | Neck Tension Rx (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
The cervical spine is often tight and painful when other nearby joints cannot pick up the motions needed by the individual. The neck is the most mobile area of the spine and often picks up unnecessary motions.
In this therapeutic strength routine, we will perform four separate exercise combin...
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Live Event: Joint Stability Series: Spine (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This 60 minute workout is designed to strengthen muscles that flex, rotate, side-bend, and extend spinal joints in a variety of positions for better overall core strength. The focus is to expose and strengthen muscle imbalances by improving contraction responsiveness. The instability of the the...
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Video 452 | Tech Neck RX (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
What is Tech Neck?
This condition has become a term used to describe chronic neck pain caused by continuously straining the neck muscles while using technology like computers and phones that eventually leads to spinal changes and poor posture. We are completely tied to our phones and screens, of... -
Video 442 | Deep Core and More (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
It is said that 50 percent of people with chronic constipation, low back pain and pelvic pain have pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD) — impaired relaxation and coordination of pelvic floor and abdominal muscles. Intensive pelvic floor retraining exercises is often used to treat non-relaxing pelvic f...
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Video 435 | Yoga Strong Core (45 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
The ancient practice of Yoga is full of postures that are centered around the health of the trunk and spine. In this flow-style practice, the sponge ball and TheraBand will be incorporated into several spinal postures that flex, extend, and rotate the spine. This is extremely helpful for suppor...
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Video 434 | Stress Relief Yoga (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Stress has become an all too common companion as we work to meet the demands of work, relationships, and personal responsibilities. Stress can affect our health in a negative way, leaving us feeling depressed and overwhemed. It can also lead to increased cortisol, which produces inflammation in t...
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Video 431 | Core Mobility (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Mobility issues are often caused by muscle weakness. In this quick 30-minute routine, we will be looking at the four motions of the trunk and spine using bodyweight as resistance to strengthen muscles and improve mobility.
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Video 422 | Absolutely Core (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This workout combines variations of the crunch to strengthen spinal muscles in a choreographed sequence with many modifications and progressions. No equipment is necessary, which allows you to focus on control. You will be amazed by how efficiently the core can be trained in record time!
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Video 418 | C.P.I. Spine (30 Minute Routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you suffer from Chronic Pain and Inflammation in the trunk and spine, this 30 minute seated and standing routine can be a way to start you on your journey of healing. If you are a desk worker, many of these exercises can be done from a chair.
Learn specific isometric exercises to strengthen...
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Live Event | Pilates Deep Core and Shoulders with Lauren Eirk
This Pilates class will address not only the typical spinal positions that we train for abdominals and spinal erectors, but also for the deep cope muscles. We will address pelvic floor dysfunction, which is the inability to correctly relax and coordinate your pelvic floor muscles. When we strain...