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I am a believer in a multi-disciplinary approach to fitness – one that incorporates different methods and modes and training techniques to achieve total health and wellness.

Pilates
Why it helps

Joseph Pilates is the inventor of this system of fitness which incorporates various aspects of different methods to train its adherents control over postural muscles and a deep connection with one’s body

Read more about Pilates here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pilates

Weight Training aka Resistance Training
Why it helps

Stretching
Why it helps

Yoga
Why it helps …

There is a mind body connection. Yoga helps to regulate your heart rate while at the same time increasing your flexibility and overall well being. There are meditative properties associated with yoga as well. You will gain a good degree of control over muscles that you thought you could not control, your breathing will improve as will your posture.

Meditation
Why it helps

There is something to be said for shutting off the lights and sitting in a solitary, quiet and comfortable place for some meditative thinking or clearing of the mind. Stress, it has been said, is the number one cause

Now, let me be clear – you don’t necessarily have to incorporate ALL OF THE ABOVE every time you work out. However, incorporating all of the above and sprinkling them in from week to week will take advantage of all of their benefits and will endow you with more endurance, flexibility, strength and muscle tone.

Click here for some example workout outlines that incorporate the above.
Here is another article that drives home the point even further. It is about a woman who is currently 100 years old – she attributes a multi-disciplinary approach to fitness as a major part of her success – check out her story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/ruth-kobin-100-years-old-_n_1073029.html

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