A few thoughts

A teaching thought: 

Please do not do wide leg squats where you stick your butt out (see photo, notice the shape of their thighs). It brings imbalance to your knees by overdeveloping Vastus Lateralis (the outside part of the four headed quadriceps muscle.) This will also develop the sweep in the front of the thigh that so many of us do not desire, as well as contribute to tight hip flexors, placing a strain on your spine. Squats, if done at all are better done in anatomical alignment (think chair pose in Yoga).

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Go!

Did you know that the real key to health is being active. What does this mean?   It means getting out of  your chair and walking around, delivering a meesage in person instead of  emailing the office next door or screaming across the house. It means walking up and down every aisle in Target just because. Every step adds up, burns  calories, revs your metabolism and keeps you healthy.  This is why I designed the Go! Bag program, to  reintroduce health to  America.  It is the key to maintaining your weight. A little known fact about me is that most of my family is overweight. I am living proof that you do not have to be, you have a choice and a path that you can follow that is relaxing, self esteem building and productive. I am here to teach you if you would like to learn.

1/20/09

In case any of you wanted to watch the inauguration tomorrow, we will have it up on the large screen TVs in both studios all day. We recognize at Life in Synergy that this is an historic moment that many will want to witness regardless of their political affiliation.

Come join us in the studio!

Feel free to bring a bag lunch.

 See you in the studio,

Helena 

Chronicle films and Stuff@ Night features!

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Helena on NECN and in the Weekly Dig!

Hi All,
I Just finished an on air segment on fitness in the new year on NECN, you can view it here.  Thank you Sarah, our Power Pilates and Ballet Boot Camp teacher for being the perfect model! -Helena

 Helena is also featured in the weekly Dig!! 

 

 Helena Collins, the energetic—we're talking cheer coach material here—trainer, founded Synergistics in 1997 and Life in Synergy this past October. Her personal philosophy on fitness has driven her entrepreneurial efforts in spreading the good word on approachable methods throughout Boston for the last 24 years.

  What was the path that led to you founding Synergistics?

I had been in fitness in the Boston area for over a decade, managing gyms, training trainers, designing gyms, etc. I was one of the......

 

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