Elizabeth Andrews

Some of the simplest exercises are often the most valuable. Compound exercises, for example, address many actions at once, making them both efficient and effective. Here are five of the best compound exercises to add to your workout.

Happiness has become a popular field of study for researchers over the last decade, and universities are creating whole courses around the topic. Here are five simple, research-based ways we can create happier, healthier lives for ourselves.

If you work with active agers, incorporating exercises into your clients’ programs that can aid in fall prevention is essential. These TRX exercises, which challenge balance and build strength, dynamic movement and mobility, are a great way to help clients of every age build and maintain the strength and balance needed for a long, healthy life.

The following 10 tips will help you grow as an instructor while getting your participants moving with smiles on their faces and vitality in their movements.

Everyone need a solid fitness regimen for their core. The five exercises that follow have been designed to focus on strength, stability and basic movement patterns.

When it comes to training for strong glutes, the first exercise that typically comes to mind is the squat. But is the squat the best exercise to strengthen and develop a muscle that allows us to move in multiple directions? Check out this six-exercise glute-focused workout by ACE certified pro Elizabeth Andrews that will help you develop and strengthen your glutes, while also providing just enough instability to challenge your core stability—all without doing a single squat.

Summer has arrived! Here is a leg workout that will have you feeling strong, agile and amazing in your favorite shorts, skirt or swim suit.

Single-leg exercises are beneficial, particularly because they mimic how we move in day-to-day life and while playing sports. Try these TRX leg exercises.

Strong glutes are vital for both life and sport. Unfortunately, dysfunctions elsewhere in the body can create problems in the glutes and hips. The following exercises are designed to help offset dysfunction in the glutes by increasing lateral and pelvic stability and eccentric control, and generating power through extension.

Plyometrics are explosive exercises that increase speed, quickness and power. Most exercises include “jumping,” in which the muscles exert maximal effort and force in short bouts or intervals of time. These advanced plyometrics exercises offer three levels of difficulty, which can be incorporated, as appropriate, into a client’s training program.

The core includes much more than just the abdominals—it encompasses the entire trunk—front and back—including the hips. A basic plank can be a great way to strengthen the core and create what Dr. Stuart McGill calls “core stiffness,” which is essential for supporting and protecting the spine. To help keep your clients engaged and challenged while doing core work, here are seven variations on the basic plank using a TRX Suspension Trainer.

Feeling strong and durable and loving the skin you are in are wonderful goals to consistently train for throughout the summer and all year long. This summer-inspired lower-body circuit will help you develop powerful, well-defined muscles, burn calories and feel great while enjoying all your favorite warm-weather activities.

You need a strong core to get the most enjoyment from summer activities like water skiing, hiking, rock climbing and surfing. This summer-inspired core circuit will help you build powerful, yet stable core musculature to protect your spine and give you the durability you need to enjoy all of life’s activities.

If you’re looking to add strength and definition to your upper body this summer (and show off those muscles in sleeveless shirts and sundresses), this upper-body circuit will do the trick. Not only will this workout help develop a strong, healthy upper body, you’ll burn lots of calories, too.

Squatting is a foundational movement that most of us perform every day without even thinking about it. And yet this exercise can be a challenge for some people. Learn how to help your clients master the basic body-weight squat before progressing to more challenging moves that will strengthen the muscles of the lower body and improve their ability to perform this foundational movement.

Strong glutes are essential for being able to move well, in both life and sport. And while we need to be able to move in all planes of motion, glute exercises like walking lunges and squats focus primarily on sagittal plane movements. Here are six multiplanar drills that are extremely effective for increasing mobility and building power and strength, while also creating strong, shapely glutes.

Regardless of what your training goals might be, these functional training exercises will help challenge your body in new ways. These exercises require only your body weight and give you an excuse to enjoy the fresh air as you perform these outdoor workouts.

While the side plank is an effective exercise, it’s important to challenge your body in new ways. Try these 5 side plank alternatives from ACE Fitness.

Flow is a concept commonly associated with yoga, but have you ever tried sequencing strength, balance and flexibility moves all together, without any breaks or pauses? Check out this innovative flow routine created by ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews that features the TRX Suspension Trainer.

With so many new exercisers flooding the gyms this time of year, it can be a challenge to figure out how to keep them coming back when their resolve starts to wane. How can we keep them excited and engaged? By getting creative, explains ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews. Here are some fun, creative ideas to add to your clients’ workouts that will keep them mentally and physically stimulated, while having some fun and keeping boredom at bay.

The TRX Suspension Trainer and the DVRT Ultimate Sandbag are great for building core strength from the inside out. Check out these combination exercises featuring these two pieces of equipment that challenge the core in all planes of motion.

With so many opportunities to overindulge during the holidays, it might be a good idea to amp up your workouts a bit to help compensate for all those extra calories. These metabolic drills take traditional exercises like shuttle runs and squat jumps and up the intensity and challenge.

ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews explains the importance of building and maintaining power—at every age—and offers a challenging workout focusing on explosive power using the TRX Rip Trainer, TRX Suspension Trainer and Ultimate Sandbags.

There are so many positives that come from strength training, especially as we age. ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews describes some of the benefits she has personally experienced from strength training, and shares the success she has enjoyed for more than three decades.

There’s no question that mobility is essential to being able to move and perform well, whether in sports or in life. But it can be a challenge to stay focused on doing basic mobility exercises, so ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews created these strength and mobility exercises using the TRX Suspension Trainer. These fun and creative exercises also challenge strength and stability in all planes of motion, so you can get more done in less time.

If you need a time-efficient, full-body workout (and who doesn’t?), check out this Ultimate Sandbag workout from ACE Certified pro Elizabeth Andrews. This fun and challenging full-body, multi-planar training session can be done almost anywhere in less than 30 minutes.