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izes in fashion, underwater, portraits, wedding,

media campaigns, Oblique events, am-

and lifestyle photography. To see his unique

bassadors and interns. You can reach ‘Q’

style, visit gregglcphoto.com.

by email at q@obliquemagazine.com.

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Richard is a personal trainer specializing in

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strength developmenent. This graduate from

American Board of Plastic Surgery and the

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Doug Glover

Lauren Zimmerman, MS, RD, LD

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head, but is probably better recognized as

ty, where she focuses on an individualized

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gram @stretchzone_coleman.

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‘Q’ is the assistant editor of Oblique Mag-

a photographer for over 20 years and special-

Richard Saad

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Features 12 Biohacking Your Physique

Contents

by Dr. Travis Love

14 Breaking Through Strength Plateaus

by Richard Saad

20 A Meathead’s Guide to Running

by Doug Glover

22 Zyia Mommy & Me

by Susan ‘Q’ Patterson

24 The Family That Trains Together Stays Together

by Susan ‘Q’ Patterson

31 Emotional Eating

by Jan Park

34 Heart and Head

by Mike Campbell

36 Top Five Shoulder Exercises

by Sam Lawrence

Departments Vi Fessenden 30 Fitness Spotlight Jenny Broe

32 Oblique Recipe

by Jessica Scully

33 Healthy Tips

by Lauren Zimmerman

35 Yoga Pose with Paige Calla

38 A Chat with Tracy York

44 Oblique Events

by Susan ‘Q’ Patterson

46 Oblique Choice Holy City CrossFit 6

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This year has already begun to fly by with Oblique with the launch of our new digital magazine, which now makes us available to the world!

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We have been an active publication for 15 years now and are thrilled to take everything we’ve built in Charleston to different communities.

We wrapped 2019 with a bang in “The Art of Fashion” event, featuring Maris DeHart at Principle Gallery, and couldn’t have been more thrilled with the amount of support our guests and vendors showed or with the fun that was had. Make sure to check out our events spread to see photos from the presentation!

In this issue you can catch personal trainer and Oblique ambassador Sarah McKee, who is known for her resilient and dedicated commitment to her career, lifestyle and clients. Sarah has made leaps and strides in her transformation physically and professionally over the years, and we are so happy to share her success within our publication.

You will find our March/April interview featuring Buns of Steel Tracy York along with our “How-To” article on the top four shoulder exercises with Sam Lawrence. You’ll also see an article written by me, “A Family that Trains Together Stays Together!,” on how my family instilled GRIT and Fitness into our lives.

The year 2020 is looking mighty full for the Oblique Troop. We have launched the Gold’s Gym Mount Pleasant series, which includes six fitness-based events showcasing the newest boutique studios in Charleston, including GoldsFIT GoldsBURN, QueenAx and many more! We also have branded a wellness series at the White Room cohosted with Still Soul Studio that will involve six evenings filled with grounding practices like sound baths, meditations and restorative yoga, to name a few. Pedals4Peanuts donation pop-up classes are making an impact this year; Zoo Health Club Charleston and Gold’s Gym North Charleston had tremendous recent events for this great cause. Make sure to stay tuned on our event page at www. obliquemagazine.com and our Instagram @obliquemagazine for updates and ticket information.

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Biohacking

“Adequate sleep and exercise both promote HGH release from the pituitary. However, over 75 percent of our total human growth hormone is released between the onset of deep sleep and 3 a.m. as part of the repair and restoration function of sleep.” -Dr. Travis Love

Your Physique

Required Calorie Intake: •Calculate your total daily calorie expenditure: basal metabolic rate + the number of calories that you burn with exercise.

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•Consume two-thirds of your calories

over 75 percent of our total human growth

during the first two-thirds of the day.

hormone is released between the onset of deep sleep and 3 a.m. as part of the repair

•Depending on goals, adults should get 35 to 45 percent of calories from carbohydrates sugars and starches, 20 to 30 percent from fat, and no more than 40 to 50 percent from protein.

•Eat nutrient-rich, low-calorie foods that will keep you full and satisfied.

Timing of Food Intake:

Cycle Your Exercise:

and restoration function of sleep.

•Get 45 minutes of weight-bearing exercise

•Optimal HGH levels promote a healthy me-

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tabolism, accelerate recovery after intense physical activity, maintain muscle mass,

•Get 30 minutes of high-intensity cardio-

preserve cognition and may extend longev-

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•Alternate working upper body and lower

•As we age and the release of HGH begins

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a fasted state to force fat burning. You can •A meal consumed early in the day gen-

get an additional hour of fat burning after

•Try to consistently get six to eight hours of

erates less insulin release than the same

your workout if you’ll consume only calorie

sleep nightly.

meal consumed later in the day. Therefore,

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•Alcohol disrupts deep sleep, avoid alcohol

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s a novice trainee, your first

Richard Saad working on a heavy deadlift as his coach, Cameron Cox of Cox Barbell Club, looks on.

three to six months of training is bound to be full of personal records. Every session may yield a 5- to 10-pound increase on your lifts, and

you may get excited about the possible maximum loads you can handle by the end of the year if you maintain your trajectory. However, if we do some simple math, you’ll see that not only is chasing PRs (personal records) every day not the most strategic approach but this pattern also may cause you to plateau much sooner than you imagined.

If you train your squat three times per week and add 5 pounds per training session, you’ll be increasing the training load by 15 pounds per week. If you train 48 weeks a year (to account for holidays and off-time), you’ll potentially put 720 pounds on your squat by the end of the year! It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that this is not

Breaking Through

Strength

going to happen. So, once your beginner gains have worn off, and you have

Plateaus

to start working a little harder for PRs, what do you do?

By Richard Saad

In comes intermediate programming.

As an intermediate trainee, you’ve de-

each variable to your progress or lack

As always, make sure you pay attention

veloped a good understanding of the

thereof. When you’ve got too much go-

to form more than the weight on the

basic lifts, made some solid progress

ing on and can’t possibly sort through

bar. If you aren’t sure of how to proper-

on the Big 4 (squat, bench, overhead

the data, it can be nearly impossible to

ly execute a lift, you’re probably still a

press and deadlift) and maybe your

figure out what’s going wrong.

novice. Consider asking a knowledgeable trainer to watch a few of your sets

progress has started to stall out. It’s

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possible to be what we call a false in-

If you’re a true intermediate, you should

to make sure that everything is moving

termediate, meaning rather than stall-

start experimenting with variables oth-

smoothly. The best way to get PRs as

ing out because the weights are get-

er than just weight. You’ll be more like-

a novice is to improve your technique.

ting too heavy, you’ve got some errors

ly to hit set, rep or rest PRs than add-

After that, make sure you eat enough,

in programming or lifestyle habits that

ing weight to the bar at this point. Try

sleep enough and program strategical-

are inhibiting your progress. These er-

adding each variable one at a time, in

ly so you can keep hitting PRs as long

rors include lack of sleep, not eating

small doses, to break through the pla-

as you lift.

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years prior to this, I decided to start my company, and along with it came stress and long hours. I internalized it and ended up developing hypertension as a result.

After seeing the doc, I realized that my day of reckoning had finally come: it was time to up my cardio to help get a handle on this. Now, I’ve always been an active guy and played sports throughout my life. However, each sport had one common thread that I hated the most, and that was running.

I started out running intervals: 30 seconds on, 60 seconds off. This gradually increased over time and eventually got up to a decent three- to five-mile trot a few days a week.

After about two weeks of this I noticed my body talking back to me, and it didn’t seem too pleased with my recent activities. My low back would start to ache about halfway into each run, and my feet and shins were killing me! I had been a strength athlete for most of my adult life; this whole endurance thing was kicking my butt, and low back and knees and shins — you get the point.

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By Doug Glover

After seeing a physio, I learned that I had developed a few not so lovely side effects of running. My feet and shins were killing me because I had developed plantar fasciitis along with a mild case of shin splints. My knees were popping because my IT band was pulling on my kneecap, causing it to pull

unning sucks; I hate it, and it

for endurance.” After college wrestling

out of alignment. I also learned that

hates me. I have always been

ended, I often would tell people that I

my hips, in fact, did not lie and rotated

drawn toward lifting heavy

would only run if I were being chased,

forward causing an “anterior pelvic tilt.”

objects, and the old Planet

and the person chasing had better have

This forward tilt was causing my ham-

Fitness ad with the meat-

a gun or a knife! I carried this mind-set

strings and glutes to tighten up, which

head saying, “I lift things up

all through my 20s up until I learned

in turn, caused my low back to lock up

and put them down” still holds a special

that I had high blood pressure. Hearing

during my runs.

place in my heart. Standing at a tower-

this came as a shock to me because I

ing 5 foot 5 inches and 210 pounds, I

had always had decently healthy eat-

Now that I had a diagnosis, I could begin

always said that “this body wasn’t built

ing habits and stayed active. About two

to work on finding a solution. That solu-

tion came in the form of stretching. You

issues of shin splints and plantar fasci-

know, that thing we all know we need

itis. If there is one thing I have learned

to do but always gets pushed aside for

through this process, it’s that every-

every other reason under the sun? The

thing is connected! Because my hips

first thing I noticed was that my hips

were so tight, they were causing my

were too tight; my right hip was espe-

hamstrings and calves to compensate

cially tighter than my left. Since all of

while I was running. The excessive work

our motion starts from the hips, every-

they were doing cause them to tighten

thing else in my lower body was hav-

up and created excessive wear and

ing to work way harder than it should.

tear on shins and the bottoms of my

After talking to some local stretch pro-

feet. A few simple stretches for the calf

fessionals and doing research, I found

opened the muscle up just enough to

a few stretches that were effective in

release the tension that was pulling on

improving my issues.

the back of my knee. I finished off with a slightly bent knee hamstring stretch; bending the knee allows me to take the calf completely out of the equation allowing me to isolate the hamstring completely.

Gastroc (Calf) Stretch

Father time taught me a valuable lesson: it’s better to walk before you run — and even better to stretch before you do either.

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Hip Flexor/Psoas Strech The first stretch I found was for my hip flexors and psoas. Lengthening those particular muscles helped the tension in my low back tremendously! When the hip flexors and psoas get tight, they shorten and pull your posture forward, causing us to lean forward which put stress on the low back. The next stretch was for my glutes; opening the glutes relieved tension on the low back. As the glutes tighten, they shorten and pull on the low back causing that dull tension and pain during my runs. The next series of stretches addressed my

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Susan ‘Q’ Patterson with her grandparents Susan & Bruce Heim.

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A Family that Trains Together

Stays Together

GRIT.

By Susan ‘Q’ Patterson

bloodline would instill and represent a

We were raised to follow three simple

work hard, play hard mentality.

rules:

Growth. Resilience. Initiative. Tenacity.

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My grandparents Bruce and Susan

1) Always be on time (if you’re not five

Growing up as a Heim was nothing

Heim (or, as I call them, Pops and Gigi),

minutes early, then you are late)

short of an extraordinary experience.

engrained the concept of “once a task

Having been raised by a former army

has just begun, never finish until it’s

ranger, current patriarch and no BS ma-

done, be the labor great or small, do it

triarch, my grandparents ensured their

well or not at all.”

2) Tell the truth 3) Try your hardest

have found so much personal success in my professional and personal career through the simple idea of trying my hardest. I attempt to take everything that I put my hands on to the next level because I know that the more effort, I put in the higher the reward. Whether that be in the gym, with my relationships or with work, I know that I always have the ability to take it past my potential and not only meet my expectations but also exceed them.

This foundation is what morphed me

on approach working with children/

A lot of people tell me they don’t know

into the woman I am today, and it all

teens/college athletes in the gym to

how I do it or how I need to slow down

started in the gym.

build growth, resilience, initiative and

or that I’m flat-out crazy. But this is my

tenacity: GRIT. As these children be-

bloodline. I want to inspire others the

My grandfather Bruce Heim started his

gan to find physical confidence, they

way my family has inspired me to find

fitness career when he was 10 years

learned how to persevere mentally and

GRIT in everything I do, because the

old; his father had him involved with

to fight through discomfort. This taught

outcome will open an entirely new

boxing, lifting weights and training with

them to create an inner fight outside

realm of inner success that you can’t

the Penn State head wrestling coach.

the gym when it came to their grades

find alone. My family’s bond is untouch-

With Bruce being a former intercolle-

and to any barriers they faced with

able, all of our achievements wouldn’t

giate athlete at West Point and an army

family or friends and eventually grow

be a reality without each other’s sup-

ranger, it was a necessity to be fit to en-

them into the successful contributors

port, and it all started in the gym. A fam-

sure his safety and success on the field

to our society today.

ily that trains together, stays together.

and at battle.

One of those kids IS me.

Susan ‘Q’ Patterson is the assitant edi-

In 1977, Bruce’s fitness career took off significantly when he met former

My parents, aunts, uncles and cous-

tor of Oblique Magazine, yoga instruc-

Penn State football and Washington

ins, along with the other thousands of

tor, business woman and fitness fanat-

Redskins head strength training coach

children my grandfather has inspired,

ic. Feel free to email her a comment on

Dan Reilly, who taught him the founda-

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tion of how he continues to train him-

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obliquemagazine.com.

self and others today: manual resistance. This method eliminates the use of machines and weights and replaces it with a workout partner who provides resistance through range of motion.

Needless to say, most would proclaim (including myself) that this format is highly uncomfortable and stimulates not only your physical fight but also your mental fight.

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Broe

Oblique Featured Fitness Professional

Jenny Broe “I get to witness the happy healing power of dance for each human that takes my floor, and nothing beats being that superhero for someone, but even more selfishly, I absolutely live for the benefits I get from that same dance magic I’m dishing out — it's that good.”

- Jenny Broe An entrepreneur with a mission, Dance Lab’s chief mad scientist Jenny Broe has spent the majority of her adult life fascinated by the connection between the mind and body and its relationship with happiness. Currently, she’s formulating dance classes to energize and invigorate students of all ages and backgrounds to feel their absolute best — not just for the sake of talent or fitness, but for the intention of living a happy and movementfilled lifestyle. Hailing from Rhythm Dance Center in Marietta, Georgia, and then graduating from the University of Georgia with a BS in psychology, Broe cultivated her passion for dance instruction at Dancefx, Inc. After a dedicated tenure with Dancefx Charleston, Broe felt called to launch her own brand, DANCE LAB, in 2016, where she gifts ALL BODIES dance movement experiences that can benefit their overall well-being (one dance class and show-stopping production at a time). For more information, visit www.dancelabcharleston.com.

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cortisol. Stress can cause you to have chronically high cortisol levels which promotes fat storage and drives hunger and inflammation. If you find yourself stress eating, ask yourself if going through that fast-food drive-through is really going to help solve whatever is making you stressed? We all know the answer to that! Having some healthy stress outlets like exercise, meditation or stretching is a long-term strategy that can greatly reduce your stress hormones. Try to do some planning ahead that can reduce your stress levels. For example, going to the grocery on the weekend and planning healthy meals for the week. Identify what your trigger

Emotional Eating

foods are and don’t bring them home.

Mine is Nutella, and I simply can’t have it in the house! Buy only healthy snacks so you have no choice but to grab something healthy when you need to eat. We can’t always depend on our own human willpower, so changing the environment around you and having only healthy snacks to grab will set you

By Jan Park

up for success. Conquering emotional eating starts with recognizing it first.

Then ask yourself if you are feeding your feelings or are you feeding hun-

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ger? If you are just wanting something in your mouth, try sugar-free gum. If o you ever find yourself eat-

you find yourself eating out of boredom

you need something soothing and re-

ing when you are bored,

(let’s call this mindless grazing), then

laxing, try some hot herbal tea. Be kind

stressed or maybe feeling a

try to be more intentional and present

to yourself and when it’s time for some

little blue? This is “emotion-

when you eat. Try only eating when

self-love, reward yourself with a new

al eating,” when we feed our

you are sitting at the table. Do not have

fancy water bottle or a new workout

feelings instead of feeding

any snacks laying out on counters in

outfit instead of sweet treats.

legitimate hunger. We all do it some-

your kitchen; store them out of sight in

times, but why? Well, there are several

cabinets or in the refrigerator. Remove

Jan Park combines 25 years of experience

reasons. First off, food is very comfort-

those candy bowls from your desk at

as a registered nurse, certified weight

ing both physically and mentally. We

work! When you eat in front of the TV

management specialist, fitness trainer,

also associate food with certain tradi-

or your computer, don’t eat out of the

corporate wellness manager and mom

tions that were ingrained in us when

container. Take a reasonable portion in

in helping hundreds of people feel their

growing up. For example, getting the

a bowl and put the rest away.

best. She is also a member of the Oblique

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Easy Weeknight

Recipe

Chinese Stir-Fry Recipe provided by Jessica Scully of Paleo Scaleo

Instructions yield: 4 servings prep time: 5 minutes cook time: 10 minutes

Ingredients STIR FRY SAUCE ¾ cup coconut aminos 1 Tbsp lime juice 2 tsp chili paste 1 tsp minced garlic 1 tsp fish sauce 1 tsp ginger STIR FRY 1 whole rotisserie chicken 16 oz cauliflower rice 10 oz Chinese stir-fry vegetables 32

1. In a small bowl, combine the coconut aminos, lime juice, chili paste, minced garlic, fish sauce, and ginger. Whisk well.

2. Cut the chicken breasts off the chicken and chop or shred the meat into bite size pieces.

3. Heat a wok or non-stick skillet over medium-high heat.

4. Once the pan is hot, add the bag of frozen veggies and stir frequently. Allow to cook for 3-4 minutes, until defrosted and beginning to soften.

5. Add the cauliflower rice to the pan, stirring frequently, and allow to cook for 2-3 more minutes.

6. Add the chicken and the stir-fry sauce to the pan, continuing to stir, until chicken is heated through and veggies are cooked.

7. Top with green onions, sliced almonds, or other garnish and serve.

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Here are three ways to add this spice to your diet: 1. Oatmeal: switch up your traditional oatmeal with a combination of turmeric, cinnamon, coconut milk, raisins and a drizzle of honey or pure maple syrup for a comforting and earthy breakfast.

2. Roasted Vegetables: sprinkle turmeric on root vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and parsnips along with onion, garlic and pepper, and roast in the oven for an easy side dish.

3. Lentil Stew: easy and quick to prepare, turmeric along with cinnamon, cumin, ginger, salt and pepper work together to make a flavorful, spicy and sweet stew.

Bonus tip: to best absorb turmeric, combine it with healthy fat and pepper. Pepper enhances absorption of curcumin by an estimated 2,000 percent, and since the spice is fat soluble, fat in the meal will further enhance absorption.

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Heart & Head

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By Mike Campbell

My heart was the first thing that needed to

diet books and fitness DVD sets for sale.

be fully engaged. I had my aha moment and

Those are the remnants of a journey that

ne question I get constantly is

found what was important in my life. I listed

relied solely on the equipment or the diet.

“Was it diet and exercise that

out the things that led to my aha moment

The person behind them did not have their

changed your life?” My answer

and stored them away in my heart. Those

head and heart in it.

is always no. Diet and exercise

things got me through the bad days, the

have been the tools that have

days that made me want to give up. I com-

If you are looking to change, look in the

helped me lose 150 pounds and change

mitted my heart to my journey and found

mirror and answer this question: on a scale

my life, but the cornerstone to my journey

ways to feed it. Prayer, music and inspira-

from 1 to 10, how committed are you to

has been getting my heart and head in the

tional reading are the mainstays here.

changing? If the answer isn’t a 9 or 10, you

game. When I tell people this, they often look bewildered.

aren’t ready! Your heart and head aren’t in My head was something I had to work on to

it. You are the driving force to change. Diet

find success. With my heart locked in, I took

and exercise are the tools. I know it’s easy to

There is no doubt that establishing a sol-

a deep look inside to get my head on board.

think that a certain diet program or exercise

id diet and exercise program is important.

I looked at how I’d found success in my

equipment are what will make the change,

Choosing the right options for me and es-

careers and volunteer efforts to develop a

but you are the only thing that can change

tablishing daily routines that helped make

plan for my brain. I came up with KISS (Keep

you!

the change were great tools in my trans-

It Simple Stupid), logging/writing and a dai-

formation. I worked daily to gain knowl-

ly morning starter thought. I made a mental

Continue to join me on my journey with

edge about diet and exercise. I was hungry

commitment to evaluate my journey daily.

each issue!

to learn about how to transform and what steps to take.

This is the short version of things, but you get the picture. It is not exercise and diet

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What gave me that hunger to learn and

that make it happen. It is heart and head. If

change was getting my heart in the game

your heart and head are not committed to

Continue to join Mike on his journey in each

and then bringing my head along for the

your journey, you will never change. Think

issue of Oblique Magazine. You can visit his

journey. I didn’t make the changes I made

about yard sales you’ve gone to, thrift stores

website at www.fatguydiary.com and also

without having 100 percent of my heart and

or used sports equipment stores. You al-

contact him directly at 843.637.0723 with

head engaged in my journey.

ways see nearly new exercise equipment,

questions and comments.

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Sam Lawrence’s

Top 4 Shoulder Exercises

Sam Lawrence Bio “It’s been almost 10 years that I have been a personal trainer, group trainer and cycling instructor in the Charleston area. Over this time I’ve worked with thousands of different individuals, body types and training needs. The one thing I’ve found that they all have in common is the benefit of a second eye, a positive push and motivation, and direction in their fitness journey. I have recently accepted the position as director of personal training at HyLo Fitness’s open gym in West Ashley. For more information please visit www.hylofitness.com.”

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1. Shoulder lateral raises: Holding weights at a neutral position, keeping elbows soft and the shoulder relaxed.

With a slow and controlled motion up and the same slow and controlled motion down, laterally raise and lower the arms, targeting the medial delt.

2. Front loaded shoulder push press: Load straight bar with desired weights. Hold bar at the top of the chest. Push up, targeting the anterior delt.

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3. Seated row posterior delt rotations: On the unilateral cable row, grab the individual grips together, keeping the arms at a 45 degree angle. Sitting tall, chest open, shoulders back, rotate at the shoulder to target the small muscles of the posterior delt.

4. Arnold press: Hitting all the muscles in the shoulder, start with the elbows anchored down, palms facing you. Sitting tall or standing tall, rotate the palms away from you as you press the dumbbells in an upward motion. Slowly return to the start position, rotating your palms on the way down, and repeat for desired reps.

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A Chat with

Tracy York

International Fitness Professional

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You have made a career out of fitness. How

VHS and DVD workouts. Buns of Steel, the

It is safe to say that you are not the only ce-

did you get started in the industry?

Platinum series, Workouts for Shape Mag-

lebrity in your household. For those who do

azine, Jenny Craig workout, Workouts for

not know, can you give our readers a little in-

I was an anxious and kind of depressed

Dummies and 10 minute solution ,to name

sight into your husband?

high school teenager. I was always phys-

a few. I’ve sold millions of copies.

ically active on sports teams, but some-

My husband is Ed Marinaro. We have been

how I found what were probably some of

The fitness industry has changed so much

married 17 years; however we dated for

the first aerobics classes in Los Angeles. I

over the years. What would you say are

12 years before we married. Ed is an actor

would go to Jane Fonda’s studio, and then

some of the biggest changes you have seen

and a former NFL football player. He was

I found a place called the Sports Connec-

throughout the years?

runner up for the Heisman Trophy and his

tion. There was a class led by a young

team, the Minnesota Vikings, went to two

girl. The room was filled with positive ener-

Two big changes: fewer big box gyms and

gy. The music was great. The clothes were

lots of boutique studios; the internet and

awesome. Everyone was moving in unison

social media. I used to star in and produce

Ed starred in critically acclaimed-Hill

for 60 minutes — and when you were done

many VHSes and DVDs. I don’t think they

Street Blues, Sisters and, most currently,

you felt amazing. I was totally hooked. Ex-

even produce them anymore. It’s digital

Blue Mountain State.

ercise was and still is the one constant in

downloads. You can get whatever work-

my life. Exercise and community make me

out you would like through Facebook, Ins-

We moved to Charleston eight years ago

feel good. I was always less depressed and

tagram or YouTube. I taught at Equinox in

from Los Angeles. I grew up in LA, but it

less anxious, and I found something that I

Los Angeles. In fact my husband’s cous-

was no longer a city that I wanted to raise

was passionate about and that I would turn

ins founded Equinox. I wish we had a su-

my son in. I knew that my son needed a

into a career.

per-premium gym here in Charleston. May-

better environment. We found Daniel Is-

be one day this will happen.

land and are so happy! My son has found

“Exercise was and still is

Super Bowls.

so many good friends here. The sports are

the one constant in my life.

It wasn’t that long ago that there were only a

great here. Kids are able to move around

Exercise and community

very small number of people who could de-

freely and be independent. I no longer had

make me feel good.”

fine their involvement in fitness as a career.

to helicopter my kid. It’s been amazing for

Now there are so many ways that people can

the whole family. Close to perfect, but I will

make a living in the industry. Are there cir-

admit that I do miss the California weather!

- Tracy York Buns of Steel was a video workout that took

cumstances where you feel that this may not

in-home exercise to a whole new level. How

always be a good thing?

did your involvement in that fitness craze come about?

In closing, where would you like to see the fitness world evolve into, not just as an industry,

As a fitness professional, you have an end-

but also for Tracy York.

less number of ways to be involved and to After I graduated from UCSB, I came back to

have a career. Life coaching has become

My career has changed since moving to

Los Angeles and started teaching at a very

very popular, and one that I’m a little sus-

Charleston. I wanted to be able to enjoy my

prominent studio, Body Express on Mel-

pect of. However, there will always be big

family and not work as hard or travel any-

rose Ave, and then went to Voight, anoth-

personalities that people gravitate toward

more. I’ve always loved teaching. Again, it’s

er cutting-edge aerobics studio. I started

and as long as it isn’t harming any one, I’m

the one constant in my life. It always lifts

doing workshops for other instructors, and

good.

me up. I get the opportunity to be creative and create fun and challenging workouts

that’s when my career as fitness presenter started. For 10 years I traveled around the

What would you say are some of the most im-

to enthusiastic students. I teach at Pivotal

world, presenting programs and choreog-

portant factors someone looking to get into

Fitness (formerly known as Eco Fitness). I’m

raphy to instructors worldwide. I was pret-

the fitness industry should consider before

still teaching kind of “old school”. I move

ty high profile within my industry, and this

embarking on this particular career choice?

to music. I create fun choreography. My workouts are great. I’m always mixing lots

led to my being cast on a new fitness show

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called, “The ESPN Fitness Shows.” I was on

You need to get educated, whether that’s

of cardio with muscle-building movements

that show for 3 years. Having had all that

through a university or specific certifica-

with dumbbells. It’s always a total body

experience I would soon be doing lots a

tions.

workout for sure.

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