Best of… Wrist Assured Gloves Blog
A few of our reader favorite exercise articles for women from the start of this year. Share your favorite story below! SNOWGA: SNOW + YOGA! Wintertime activities provide opportunities to add variability to your workout and a chance to escape boredom from doing the same indoor routine all winter long (although hot yoga or Pilates feels pretty great after coming in from the cold!). What awaits you in the great outdoors? Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing, Sledding and SNOWGA! The Incredible Digit The thumb is a small, but incredibly important...
read moreTop 10 Benefits of Group Fitness!
Are you noticing a few more guys in your group fitness classes lately? Or are you one of those guys? Welcome to the benefits of group fitness classes! A recent study found more men are participating in group fitness classes. The variety of training techniques, environments, and challenging workouts are on the rise, making group fitness more popular and beneficial than ever before. We all know that exercise is great prevention, which is part of the WAGs philosophy. 1. Saving Time: Forget watching the clock! The pace of group fitness classes...
read moreWAGs Lovin’: Erin of E2 – Exercise with Erin
Customer Testimonials! We are incredibly grateful to have the following story of how Wrist Assured Gloves made an impact for a personal trainer and group fitness instructor in rural Michigan – helping her clients overcome pain and carry on with their Pilates practice and cardio workouts. Erin of E2: Exercise with Erin is an inspiration for her innovation and pursuit of finding ways to make exercise accessible for everyone! Erin’s specialties are Pilates and BootCAMP classes and she also teaches Sculpting and CardioBox classes....
read moreA Little Bit More!
We love to discuss living a healthy lifestyle and finding out what that means to you as our readers and customers. Our blog is the space for us to discuss the issues related to health, fitness and its lifestyle, as well as highlight features and uses of our Wrist Assured fitness Gloves – or WAGs – in greater detail. Wrist Assured™ fitness gloves are ergonomically designed to ease wrist strain and improve your comfort by relieving joint pain, nerve compression and stress on the soft tissues of the wrist during weight bearing...
read more5 Superfoods for Joint Health
Foods can be powerful tools in maintaining health and preventing disease. Most notably foods that fall under the new group of foods deemed “Super Foods”. We’re discussing five super foods that help in protecting joints, and may ease pain in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or arthritis. Cherries and berries are more than sweet treats. Cherries and dark-colored berries are Nature’s richest sources of anthocyanins, a group of antioxidants called flavonoids which possess exceptional anti-inflammatory properties. Blueberries, blackberries,...
read more5 Essential Yoga Accessories
The beauty of yoga is that it can be performed almost anywhere and with a minimal equipment. Yoga accessories – usually referred to as props – help achieve proper alignment in poses. World-renowned Hatha Yogi, Sri B.K.S. Iyengar, introduced props to yoga. Props can make poses more accessible, allow for maximized stretching, contribute to confidence in practice, and much more. Props reduce strain and contribute to better performance of weight-bearing poses, especially for those with injuries or decreased range of motion. Our...
read more5 Essential Moves: Foam Roller Abs
Maybe you’ve heard of or maybe you use a foam roller for stretching. Did you know you can also strengthen your core using your foam roller? Strengthening your core and abdominal muscles is important for all things in life. The foam roller adds variation to traditional Pilates and yoga exercises by increasing the workload on your muscles. If you’re just starting out, you should try the moves on the floor first and slowly build up the reps, aiming for 8-10 reps per set, completing 2-3 sets. Intermediate and advanced exercisers...
read moreLove is in the Air!
Speaking of love, we received a wonderful review from Lynne at Om Circle Yoga. Lynne is a former “desk/airport-jockey software programmer/consultant turned yoga teacher”. Her yoga philosophy: Staying active in body, mind and spirit is my path to health and youthfulness. Yoga is the only activity I have found to simultaneously engage and challenge all three of these areas. This past summer, I noticed thumb pain during my yoga practice and while gardening (my other job). Even with good alignment, poses like up-dog and wheel were...
read moreWhere in the World…?
The answer is EVERYWHERE! We are participating in this year’s YogaHub Virtual Conference (check out all the info from this earlier post on YogaHub). One of our favorite WAGs customers, Erin of “Exercise with Erin” is attending the conference on us this year as the winner of our contest! Paula, WAGs creator and occupational therapist, is presenting at the conference this year and we thought we’d give you a preview of her presentation, which will be posted in full to the WAGs YouTube account by the end of the month....
read moreHappy Feet: Stretches & Trends
In last week’s post on “Happy Feet” we discussed some of the ways to keep those feet happy all day long. In today’s post, we outline a sequence of poses for those feet & toes! Pair these feet and toe stretches with a daily activity, such as watching the news or catching up on your favorite blogs online. Spread Toes: Separate and stretch toes apart from each other to help maintain spacing between your toes. The following methods provide a passive stretch: Lace your fingers through your toes as if you’re holding...
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