Be Active...Be Healthy...Be You!  We chose these exercises as our Top 5 because of their simplicity, effectiveness, and importance on one's posture, core, muscular skeletal strength, as well as helping with every day activities.  These are exercises you can do almost anywhere.  We encourage you to better yourself and take the next step forward towards better health and fitness with exercises targeting the total body.   

Lateral Walking and Monster Walking are conducted using a band and are effective exercises to strengthen and stabilize your legs, hips, and feet.

Learning how to do the Abdominal Drawing In Maneuver (ADIM) is important for core and spine stabilization by strengthening your transverse abdominis muscle, which is the deepest abdominal muscle.

The Plank is a core strengthening exercise that should be done using ADIM to engage all of your abdominals.  It can be varied depending on your strength and abilities. 

Pushups are great for working on upper body strength, primarily chest.  You use these muscles when you are doing a pushing type movement in everyday life activities.  There are many different variations of the pushup depending on your abilities. 

I, T, Y exercises are used to help improve posture as well as strengthen your shoulders.  Shoulders are small muscles which are often neglected leading to weakness and injury.  If you play sports such tennis and golf, these exercises will help to stabilize your shoulders and improve your posture.