The isometric exercise routines in this collection are designed to help you keep your muscular system healthy. Isometric resistance training involves a contraction of muscles without any movement in the surrounding joints. Holding these positions under light tension will help build muscle, strength, balance and range of motion. Other isometric exercise benefits include stress reduction, improved mental health, lowering of inflammation, improved joint stability, and injury rehabilitation.
Try these videos as an exercise program on their own, as a warm-up for more vigorous exercise, or for recovery. You will notice less pain and stiffness with regular practice!
Positional isometric strength training can build strength, improve muscle contractions, lower risk of injury, reduce inflammation, increase bone density, burn fat, and help with mobility.
In this workout, we will use bodyweight, the floor, and a ThreraBand to create resistance for the back and...
This workout combines standing, seated, and supine upper body isometrics to build strength, improve muscle contractions, lower risk of injury, reduce inflammation, increase bone density, burn fat, and help with mobility.
When we perform an exercise and push into the mat or a sponge ball, muscl...
This workout combines standing, seated, and supine lower body isometrics to build strength, improve muscle contractions, lower risk of injury, reduce inflammation, increase bone density, burn fat, and help with mobility.
When we perform an exercise and push into the mat or a block, muscles cont...
Positional isometric strength training can build strength, improve muscle contractions, lower risk of injury, reduce inflammation, increase bone density, burn fat, and help with mobility.
In this workout, we will use bodyweight, the floor, a sponge ball, and a support to create resistance for ...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that extend the shoulder and help you maintain an overall upright posture using a mini ball.
We start with retraction and extension of the shoulder, which will make it easier to keep good posture. We then...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute isometric workout will help strengthen muscles that abduct the shoulder in order to move the arm out to the side. These include the deltoids and associated rotator cuff muscles. Dumbbells will be used to push into as well as for resistance.
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If you find yourself stuck in a long meeting, sitting at the computer at work, or traveling on an airplane, this bodyweight routine can be done completely from a chair with no equipment.
Experience 10 isometric exercise for the full body
Seated Hip Isometrics
Chest Press
Lat Pull
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If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen muscles that cross the hip to perform internal rotation, such as the iliopsoas group, rectus femoris, and adductors to name a few. These are also muscles that commonly flex the hip and help with lower back pain...
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...
There are times when we wake up feeling achy all over, especially after recovering from an illness, traveling, time change issues, or having pushed your body too hard the day before. This short bodyweight video takes you from head to foot using some isometrics and gentle movement to improve neur...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that move and stabilize the many joints of the foot and toes. Much of this video is done from a chair using bodyweight only.
Weakness in these areas can affect our overall gait and have a great influence...
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"!
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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 ...
Isometrics can be used to activate weak muscles, reduce inflammation, and quickly improve range of motion. In this video, jump start muscles in the lower leg, knee, and hip that are designed to pronate, or give into gravity and improve overall gait. Experience exercises that cross the front of ...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that flex and extend the elbow. These include the biceps and triceps muscles. A Yoga block and small ball will be used to create these isometric positions. There are seated and supine positions done in th...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that retract (move the shoulder blades together) the shoulder blades and help keep an upright posture. These include the rhomboids, middle trapezius, and other associated shoulder muscles. A Yoga strap an...
Isometrics can be used to activate weak muscles, reduce inflammation, and quickly improve range of motion. In this video, jump start muscles in the lower leg, knee, and hip that are designed to fight gravity and improve overall gait. Experience calf, hamstring, and gluteal work to get a quick e...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that protract (move the shoulder blades apart) and move the arms across the body. These include the pectorals and associated shoulder muscles
Weakness in these areas can affect our respiration, our should...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help you to strengthen knee extensor muscles and knee flexor muscles using the resistance coming from friction and a sponge ball. Weakness in these areas can cause loss of balance and knee pain, making it more difficult to walk eff...
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 sidebend isometric exercises for the hip and spinal joints. In the spine, this is lateral flexion. In the hips, this is abduction and ...
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 extension-based isometric exercises for the hip and spinal joints. This is a bodyweight workout with no props required.
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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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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...
If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that upwardly rotate and protract (move the shoulder blades apart) the shoulder and help you move your arm over your head without pain using a Yoga block and either dumbbells or a wall.
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