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 a pain-free lifestyle. This video series is a must for any fitness program.
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Live Event | Core Ball: Lower Body (60 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This 60 minute workout will strengthen and tone thigh, hip, gluteal, calf, and foot muscles using a variety of positions. Using the stability ball as if it were a weight bench, we will practice stabilizng with the ball using trunk and spine muscles as we strengthen the lower body.
The flowing...
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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...
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Video 401 | Isometric Core Mini Ball Boost (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute isometric workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of rotation, flexion, extension, and side-bending isometric exercises. You will need a sponge ball for this workout to create the isometri...
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Video 393 | Core Respiratory Training (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Studies say that most individuals only use 10-15% of their total breating capacity. In this video, we will practice two powerful breathing exercises designed to improve lung capacity, cardiovascular function, and emotional regulation. Next, we move through several targeted exercises to strength...
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Video 390 | Pilates Mini Ball Challenge (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In the traditional 34 Pilates Mat exercises, the abdominal and back musculature is targeted in many floor exercises. In this workout, see how the addition of the Pilates Sponge Ball can add so much to your exercise routine. Experience resistance challenges, leverage challenges, joint support an...
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Video 387 | Upper Body & Core Express (15 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This workout combines variations of planking, side planking, and trunk extension moves 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 t...
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Video 380 | Anti-Rotation Workout (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Anti-rotation is given to exercises that requires us to resist motion. When the resistance from an exercise is trying to cause trunk rotation, it’s the core’s job to prevent that from happening. The core has two tasks. 1) Prevent movement and 2) Transfer forces from the upper and lower body.
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Live Event with Lauren Eirk | Upper Body and Deep Core
This core training class is designed to strengthen and tone the chest, back, biceps and triceps muscles using a variety of shoulder positions. Using the stability ball as if it were a weight bench, many muscles will be working to keep training positions static against the moving weights, trainin...
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Video 364 | Pilates for Pelvic Floor (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
The Pilates Mat sequence is the focus for this workout as we incorporate many of the most effective pelvic floor exercises while practicing diaphragmatic breathing exercises.
This workout slowly begins from a supine position as we practice pelvic tilts and pelvic floor engagement. Learn to contr... -
Video 357 | Pilates Express (15 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
This balanced Pilates Mat routine offers support, balance, and strength to your "core" in an express routine based on the Pilates system. Joseph Pilates referred to the core as the "The Powerhouse" and consisted of abdominals, back, hips, and shoulders.
The goal of this express workout is to ...
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Video 355 | Core Express (15 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Even if you have a limited amount of time, you can still get a great workout. This Express workout targets the muscles that rotate the trunk and spine in rotation. Starting from a supine position, practice six of the most effective bodyweight exercises to target the muscles such as the obliques,...
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Video 353 | Isometric Hip & Core Boost Lateral Flexion (15 Min) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute isometric routine will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability in sidelying bodyweight exercises for the hip and spinal joints. In the spine, this is lateral flexion. In the hips, this is abduction. No equipment nee...
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Video 347 | Isometric Core Ball Boost II (15 minute routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of flexion-based isometric exercises. These are the muscles that bend the spine. This includes your "six-pack"!
There is no better tool ...
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Video 340 | Isometric Core Ball Boost (15 minute routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of rotation-based isometric exercises.
There is no better tool for spinal exercises than the stability ball! Using the ball as a prop ...
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Video 337 | Rotation Recipe (30 Minute workout) with Lauren Eirk
This workout is choreographed to rotate through your hips, spine, shoulders, and neck for improved trunk rotation.
We begin with a warm up to check our mobility, then we will perform several "anti-rotation" exercises using asymmetrical loading and unilateral motions . Next, experience some hig...
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Video 335 | Core Conditioning (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
In this workout, we will go through some of the most comprehensive core exercises for the abdominals, obliques, rectus abdominis, transverse abdominals, spinal erectors, hips, and shoulders. This is a body weight routine that incorporates some of the best core activation exercises around! Get m...
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Video 331 | Core Yoga Wake-Up (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
If you woke up feeling fatigued, stiff and tight, it may be a sign that your muscles need attention! In this 30 minute Yoga practice, target muscles that attach to the pelvis, hips, shoulder blades, ribs and vertebral column using gentle isometric resistance training.
Begin with a breath-cent...
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Video #323 | Core and Pelvic Floor (30 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk
Pelvic floor dysfunction is the inability to correctly relax and coordinate your pelvic floor muscles. When we strain, it puts pressure on this region. As we age, these muscles can become weak due to childbirth, standing for long periods of time, heavy lifting, straining to defecate, and some spo...
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Video 312 | Isometric Hip-Core Rotation Boost (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of rotation-based isometric exercises for the hip and spinal joints. We will use Yoga blocks for resistance in a few of the exercises.
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Video 311 | Foundation: Foot and Core (30 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
The "Foundation" of many exercises lies in the trunk and spine and the foot. You will need a mini ball and thigh band for this workout, as well as a chair to serve as a platform for seated and standing foot exercises. See how many foot-related motions affect the mobility of the core, as we pract...
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Video 310 | Isometric Hip and Core Boost (15 Minute Routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of flexion-based isometric exercises for the hip and spinal joints. This is an equipment-free workout, so you will use your hands for resi...
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Video 305 | ABSolute Strength (30 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
This workout will add some variety and challenge to several abdominal exercises using a mini ball for support and dumbbells for added resistance. After the warm-up, experience a challenging floor routine with the mini ball to experience crunches in a whole new way! Next, dumbbells are incorpora...
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Video 293 | Isometric Core Boost II (15 Minute Routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you strengthen core muscles and help give you improved spinal stability using a series of flexion-based isometric exercises using the mini ball.
Think of this as a preparation to exercise! Remember that you are only as good ...
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Video 294 | Isometric Core Boost III (15 Minute Routine) with Lauren Eirk
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you improve posture using a series of extension-based isometric exercises with modifications given for anyone who has a hard time moving this way.
You will not need any equipment for this workout, although a blanket under th...