Elite Health Club

We here at Elite Heath Club and Physical Therapy Center would like to invite you to our OPEN HOUSE on Saturday, October 21st from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.
We will have some of our supportive trainers and therapists there to show you the facility and answer questions. We will have free giveaways for the health club and free food samples from Harvest Kitchen.

Can't wait to see you there!

In todays Mobility Monday, we have a hip mobility stretch. This stretch opens up the hips and stretches the glutes and hamstrings. When we sit for long periods of time, our hip flexors and glutes tighten. This stretch is perform to reduce tightness. Please leave a comment or question below!

In todays Mobility Monday, we talk about Nerve Flossing. Nerve Flossing helps to improve range of motion in the hips and down the leg, in addition to mobilizing and stretching the nerves. This helps to reduce irritation and tension. Try this out and let us know if you have any questions!

In todays Mobility Monday, we talk about the Child’s Pose stretch. We show you three variations of this stretch. This stretch helps to relieve tension in our low back by lengthening our spine. Child’s Pose opens up our hips and stretches our hip flexors which is important for prolonged sitting. Try this one out and let us know in the comments if you have any questions!

Mobility Monday!
Today we’ll talk about the Cobra stretch. The Cobra stretches muscles in our back, chest, and hip flexors. This stretch helps improve our posture, alignment, and improve back pain. If you are sitting for extended periods of time, this stretch is perfect for you! If you have any questions or comments, please share below!

In today’s Mobility Monday, we will demonstrate a few Lower Body stretches to combat tight muscles due to sitting or driving for extended periods of time. These three stretches target the hamstrings, the quads and hip flexors, and the hip. These stretches are performed while sitting in a chair. As always, thanks for watching and leave any comments or concerns below!

In today’s Movements of Life, we talk about the LUNGE. We first go into an extended step and work our way to a lunge. Remember to take it one inch at a time! This exercises focuses on improving our range of motion, balance, and overall strength. Try this and let us know your thoughts! Please share any questions below.

In today’s Movements of Life, we bring you a simple exercise that is very important to implement in your daily routine! The active straight leg lift focuses on the strength to lift our leg. Remember to first squeeze your quad before lifting your leg and drive your back into the floor to engage the core. This exercise engages our hip flexors and our quads. To advance this exercise, we add a crunch with our opposing arm. Try this out and comment below if you have any questions or concerns!

In today’s Mobility Monday, we are talking about hip mobility, specifically our groin. The groin tends to get tight with long-term sitting and lack of stretching. The butterfly stretch helps to improve hip mobility. Thank you for watching! Please comment below if you have any questions.

In today’s Mobility Monday, we talk about how to combat a STIFF NECK. These stretches help loosen our tight cervical flexors. We will demonstrate a few exercises to improve our head and neck mobility. Please leave a comment below if you have any questions!

The Movements of Life!
Today we’ll talk about the donkey kick. This exercises targets our glutes and engages our abdomen. By focusing on our core, we can avoid rounding our back when performing this exercise. This exercise helps us to reduce back strain by working our glutes and core. Thank you for watching and please leave any comments or concerns below!

In today's Movement of Life, we will be discussing the Bird Dog exercise. This exercise is great for core activation and balance. You want to focus on maintaining core stability while moving your arms and legs. This helps you transition to more complex movements without injuring your back.

Today, for the Movements of Life, we take a look at the shoulders. First we want to establish strength in the rotator cuff and upper back with external rotations, and then we progress pull apart to help counteract rounded shoulders.

Today, we will be talking about calf mobility. Tight calves can affect many different movements like walking, squatting, and even standing. To check if you have tight calves, you can perform this test. Find a wall and place your barefoot a fists distance away from it. While keeping your heel down, drive your knee toward the wall. If you can touch the wall, you have good mobility. If not this simple stretch can make a big difference.

In today’s Movements of Life video, we talk about step ups. We all sometimes need to climb stairs, and this exercise helps us strengthen our lower body including the quads and glutes. As always, thanks for watching and leave any comments or concerns below!

Mobility Mondays
Today, I want to talk about creating consistency. We benefit from what we work on. The more we work on it, the more we benefit. So, having a simple routine that we can do every morning, evening or both is best long term. Here are 4 stretches that be done anywhere and takes only minutes to complete.

In today's Mobility Monday, we are talking about Thoracic Mobility. This is the section of your back associated with your ribs. This area can really get stiff and affect many different movements. To loosen up your T-spine, we will show you two stretches. Thread the needle and foam roller back extensions. If there are any questions please leave a comment below.

Today's Movement of Life is the Lat pulldown. This exercise is great for strengthening the muscles that help keep your shoulders down. Keeping your shoulders down help to achieve better positioning for your overhead reach, push up, and row. It can also help relieve tension in your trap muscle that may cause headaches and shoulder pain.

In today’s Movements of Life video, we talk about the importance of hinging at our hips. We go over the double leg glute bridge and how to transition into single leg glute bridges. By doing these exercises, it helps us isolate and strengthen each side. This allows us to focus on building those glute muscles, to reduce any strain on our backs. As always, thanks for watching and leave any comments or concerns below!

Today, we are talking about the couch stretch. This stretch targets the quads and hip flexors. If you're just starting out, find a low surface to put your foot on and be careful as you go to sit up straight. This video cover a beginner and advanced modification.

This Mobility Monday, we are targeting the outer hip and glute with the pigeon stretch. This move is great to get your glute max and piriformis. Increasing mobility in this area can also help relieve some instances of back pain.

The Movements of Life
Today, we will be talking about the Single Leg Deadlift. This exercise is a great way to target your hamstring and glutes. Working the single leg version is a good way to ensure strength balance between both legs. If you struggle with standing on one leg, start with the knee on the bench and work up to free standing. If you have any questions, please leave a comment below.

Today we are talking about Posterior Leg Stretch. This includes hamstrings, calves and hips. If you have any questions please leave comments below.

In today’s Movements of Life, we walk you through doing a single armed bent over row. This exercise is great with helping with any asymmetries you may have between both arms and with building general arm strength. As always, if you have any questions or comments please leave them below! Thank you!

In today’s Movements of Life video, we demonstrate the overhead press. This movement is great for helping build strength in our back and arms so that we can easily do functional activities. If you have any questions, please leave them below! As always, thanks for watching!