Stretch & Breathe - the importance of proper breathing during your stretching routine
Hi everyone! A month ago we've started the 30 days Stretching challenge to increase our flexibility.
We have tried different kinds of exercises, trying to figure out which work better for us and we are happy to say that we will show you our personal stretching routine very soon!
In the meanwhile.. we want to talk about the importance of proper breathing while you stretch.
In fact your breathing does have a huge impact on the efficacy of your flexibility routine.
There are many breathing mistakes people do while they stretch like holding their breath, breathing quickly or too deeply, inhale and exhale at the incorrect time that can really affect your exercise and even cause significant problems..
30 day Stretching Challenge
Hi everyone, we hope you are ready for this article because we are so excited to share it with you! Today we want to introduce you to a new section of the blog, a subsection of the "Twin life" category: "CHALLENGE", where we're going to write about the many challenges we want to try and give you the details about them all.
Today it's day one of a "30 days" challenge we really can't wait to try. We've always given priority to our workouts, mostly avoided any form of stretching. But we've finally decided it's time for a change! We really want to start paying attention to our flexibility, and in the next 30 days we're going to test ourselves and see how much we can develop and increase our range of motion.
We can't tell you now which exercises will be part of our stretch routine, because there's not a specific program we follow. But we'll try different kinds of exercises and see which work better for us, then you'll have all the details in a new article next month.
What you need to start training at home - BBG 0.1 guide
Hi guys, it's Monday, again. But we're not going to complain: we're too excited because we have a new article to share with you all! Last week, we introduced you to the training program we've been following for two years now: the Bikini Body Guide by Kayla Itsines. What we like the most about this guide is that it gives us the opportunity to workout at home. Sometimes maybe you just don't have the time to go to the gym, or you are too tired to, so this could be a perfect alternative for you.
We usually workout in our bedroom, so we really don't have any excuse to skip a workout!
But there are a few things you may need to go get before you start. Here is the list of the required equipment we've found on Kayla's official site!
EXERCISE MAT
It makes floor exercises more comfortable and it provides the cushion necessary for your jumping workout.
DRINK BOTTLE
You really don't want to finish your 7-minutes circuit and find out you don't have anything to rehydrate with!
SWEAT TOWEL
A must have during your workout, to dry yourself from sweat. Ew!
Kayla Itsines & BBG (INTRO)
Hi everyone! In this post we want to introduce you to the BBG GUIDE (the E-book format) by Kayla Itsines. We discovered it almost two years ago, and we think it's the best program to start with! How we've already said in a previous post, Kayla and her guide completely changed our life for the better! We love it! Let's talk about her and her E-books!
About Kayla Itsines
Kayla Itsines (05/21/1991) is a personal trainer from Adelaide, Australia. Her journey began in 2008, when she started a personal traning course at the Australian Institute of Fitness. She soon realised, the methods she was instructed to use often fell short or did not provide the results the client was aspiring to achieve.
She decided to start her own company (co-created with his boyfriend, Tobias Pearce) aimed at helping women achieve a bikini body in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Kayla says that "a bikini body is not a certain body weight, size or look, but rather a state of mind where you are confident and feeling good about YOU", and this is exactly our what Fitness means to us.
