30 Day Core Revolution Challenge:

https://www.angela-gargano.com/core-revolution

Day 2: Bear Hold

So if you watched my last video we reviewed the “deadbug” which has us laying on your back. Now we are going to go into something called a bear hold, which basically flips that deadbug around into what some call an “alive bug” Just like the Deadbug, this might “look” easy but it’s not if you are doing it correctly you should feel this through your entire body. 

Step 1: Table top position (deadbug flipped around) hip aligned with knee, should aligned with wrist. Inhale, exhale squeeze but 

Step 2: Make sure your hands are grabbing on and turning the ground kinda like you are opening a jar of jelly feeling. Back should be flat and like you would be able to hold glass of water on your back. 

Step 3: Now that you have that down you can hoover your knees above the ground push your knees out...

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 Day 1: Deadbug

The Deadbug, this seemingly simple movement is a GAME changer to get the strong core you are looking for?! Why is that? This movement pushes you to keep your core engaged WHILE moving your arms and legs, which is so important. If you can do this, it translates into everyday life movements.

So Today we will go over how to do the deadbug and give ya a challenge to try with some different variations

Step 1: Lay down on you back, inhale, squeeze your butt exhale making sure that cave in your back disappears

Step 2: Keep that core engaged while moving opposite arms and legs

Today’s Challenge

30seconds Deadbug Hold

10 (each side) Same Side Deadbug Extensions stay on one side then shift to the other

10 (each side) Opposite Arm Opposite Legs Extensions Stay on one side Switch to...

My guest this week is my friend Sam Forget! Sam and I were living right next to each other in NYC, we had all the same mutual friends, and we even had similar travel and conference schedules but we NEVER knew each other until we met at a conference last year in Seattle. Sam is an online nutrition coach who works with people who have transformation-related goals through 1:1 coaching and group coaching. He doesn’t just focus on the nutritional side of things, but also lifestyle stuff: everything from relationship with food, to stress management, to sleep hygiene. 

I get a lot of people asking me about nutrition plans, but here’s the thing about nutrition plans: a list of what to eat and what not to eat is not going to address your relationship with food, how you cope with stress, or the state of your digestive health. It might give you short-term results, but it’s not going to help you in the long term. It goes much, much deeper than that. 

In this...

Listeners, meet my bestie! Kyle Weiger is a handstand coach. He found yoga at the age of 28, which led to gymnastics, which then led to acrobatics, and he found a passion for teaching handstands. He put out his first handstand course in 2017 and it’s been a wild ride since then. Kyle hosts workshops, online courses, intensive online groups, and more, all about handstands! Kyle has had a wide range of students, from true beginners to crossfit athletes, and has taught over 8,000 students across 72 countries. 

But his success didn’t happen overnight. He went from struggling financially, up to his eyeballs in debt, thinking about renting a storage unit and living out of it just to make ends meet, in a dark place emotionally and financially, with his only customer being his mom, to the successful entrepreneur he is today. It took 6 or 7 years from the time he launched his first website to actually being successful. 

So why handstands? Like pull-ups, it’s more...

3 Mistakes that I see ALL the time in Core Workouts that could be hindering your progress and even leading to some back & neck pain. 

#1 Putting your Hands Behind your Butt/Back 

So many people do this because they have back pain when doing this movement...but what they don't realize is that by putting your hands behind your back you are completely negating using your core AND that if you were having back pain during this movement it's better for you to REGRESS the movement to heel taps so that you can learn to engage the core properly. 

#2 Pulling your Neck Forward instead of to the ceiling when doing the classic Crunch 

You want to pretend like there is a string attached to your nose and it is pulling you UP not forward. You also should not be PULLING on your neck while doing this, your hands are simply allowing your neck a place to stay and live 

#3 The Plank Hip Tap 

So many times I see people legit just rolling their body on the...

 Have you ever done some core movements and thought…wow my neck hurts?

It’s actually super common, in this video we are going to go over what you can do to get rid of that pain so you can actually feel the core movements in the RIGHT area.

Number 1: Warm-up your Neck

We hold onto a lot of stress and tension in our neck and we sit hunched over a lot days. So doing these movements will help alleviate some of that built up tension.

Number 2: Tongue on Top of Mouth

Literally sounds so crazy but it does help! Put the tongue on the top of your. Mouth and try to crunch that way

Number 3: Go up instead of Forward

Instead of going forward with your crunch, pretend there is a string attached to your nose and it is pulling it straight up to the ceiling. Up instead of forward.

Number 4: Hands do NOT lift Neck

Make sure your hands are just supporting neck and not PULLING the neck up

Number 5: Use a Towel to Rest...

I’m super excited to welcome one of my dearest friends, Jess Glazer on the show! Jess is a business coach, mentor, speaker, and philanthropist. A former school teacher and personal trainer, Jess turned her side hustle into a multiple 7-figure business, and she helps others do the same. She teaches her clients how to extract what they know and their lived experience and turn it into courses, programs, and content to help the world.

In this episode, Jess and I are going to talk about the importance of mindset and how to shift your mindset into a place of abundance. 

Mindset is a muscle, like anything else. We really do need to flex it and work on it every single day. You’ll have days where you feel stronger, and you’ll have days that you feel weaker, and it’s important to get support through your mindset journey. 

Connect with Jess:

Instagram: @iamjessicaderose 

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Has there been times you are doing core exercises and all you do is feel them in your legs or even maybe your lower back?

This is super common and a lot of it has to do with tight hip flexors taking over that core movement.

So how do we actually get to target our core properly then? I am going to show you TWO things in this video that will be total game-changers!

1- Proper Warm-up

2-Proper Core activation

3-Then we will go through and test out a core movement to see if we feel a change in

Today we’re going to be talking about pull-ups… but we’re not going to be talking about pull-up technique or how to do a pull-up, we’re going to be talking about WHY learning a pull-up can be a life-changing experience.

I started my pull-up coaching journey when I owned my own gym and I had tons of clients, especially female clients, coming to me and telling me that their biggest fitness goal was to learn a pull-up. Pull-ups can be intimidating, and the process is truly like a roller coaster. One week you’re making gains, and the next week, you can’t seem to make any progress.

As women, we may have been told our entire lives that we’re not strong enough to do it. NOT ANYMORE. You can learn a pull-up! You are strong enough. You can be patient enough. 

When you do something you think you can’t do, it will translate to other facets of your life. Approaching your pull up is like anything in life: you make small changes, little by...