**Need a LIFT?** I have already been grilled by some of our peers on social media for this picture. They told me that Lauryn didn’t need my help with her pull-up, fully knowing —she is the strong one. However, we still do help each other in our LIFTs, and love sharing our knowledge and careful touch to your own workout goals. Join a group class, or book a session in the studio to get a helping hand with your workout and feel better with movement

How do you train most days of the week? Do you move intending to feel the burn of a stretch — relishing in the intensity of an all out pursuit? Or, instead of doing a lot, and perhaps feeling depleted — do you ramp things up just enough, stimulating the body and brain to feel recharged and ready.

Refine the relationship between your flexibility and strength with movement and make the time to train your body to increase your knowledge of how it works and tell it what you want it to do next.

Once you know your limits, bend the rules, and every once and a while perform intervals at high intensity for endurance. Follow the links to a helpful workout tip for functional strength in your everyday LIFTs, and then an intense and H.I.I.T.-ful exercise series with the kettlebell.

Help your Hip Hinge | cat + Cow

H.I.I.T. Your Hips + Heart | Kb swings

Online or in studio, the first half of our sessions is spent refining the basics with a relentless, yet patient approach. How the hips move — in and out, up and down, front and back, round and around, they are joints whose capabilities seem to go on and on.

Yet, rather than hitting your hips with exercises that are high volume and ballistic in nature, spend more time easing into exercise and checking in with your body to enjoy the therapeutic and helpful qualities of mobility and strength. This week, increase the intensity of your exercise by hitting your workout with the additional power of the brain and boost your mind body connection first.

Take Care,

Ian and Lauryn

To H.I.I.T. Or, to Help?

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