Tamara
Tamara has been a Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, Third Age Leader and Kettlebell Coach since 2008. She exercises for the ‘sport of life’; to keep herself active and strong and able to do all the extracurricular activities she loves - without pain and for many years to come. Besides teaching classes at her local recreation centre, she has also run online fitness programs, led workshops for fellow instructors, written articles for popular magazines and published the exercise book, “Ultimate Booty Workouts”.
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Mobility & Strength for Your Feet
Day 9 of the 10-Day Bunion Friendly Fitness Series. A seated, mobility and strength workout for the feet. A must-do for anyone!
Equipment: chair, fit loop or physio band, a few marbles or small round stones
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Supersetting Total Body Strength
Day 10 of the 10-Day Bunion Friendly Fitness Series. An intermediate, whole-body, bunion-friendly strength workout. Using body weight and two sets of dumbbells, we'll combine upper and lower body moves for an all-over strength workout.
Equipment: 2 sets of dumbbells, yoga mat
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About the 21-Day Jumpstart Challenge
All about our 21-Day Jumpstart Challenge - who is this best for, what to expect and what equipment you'll need.
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Benchmark Workout #1
Day 1 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A whole-body strength workout focusing on traditional and foundational exercises, including squats, deadlifts, lunges and rows. Knee- and wrist-friendly options are included. Print out the PDF and record your weights for each exercise on it; we'll be re...
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Supersetting Upper Body Strength
Day 2 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
An all-upper body strength workout, combining large and small muscle work. Grab a mini-band for the warmup and 2-3 sets of dumbbells for the circuit work. If you want to incorporate a little extra core, have a BOSU on hand to use as a bench.
Tools: boo...
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Cardio HIIT
Day 3 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A short, intermediate to high-intensity Tabata-style standing cardio workout. No equipment is required, although a pair of light dumbbells can be added to several of the moves to up the intensity further!
Tools: light dumbbell (optional)
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Lower Body Power
Day 4 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
Grab your heavier dumbbells and prepare to work your glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps. This circuit-style strength workout hits all the big muscles of the lower body (and a few smaller ones, as well). Rear-foot elevated lunges require a step, BOSU or c...
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Mobility, Flexibility & Core Activation
"Day 5 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
Join Tamara in this all-floor-work mobility, flexibility and core activation recovery session. The perfect antidote to a challenging lower body workout or run. No equipment is required.
Tools: mat
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Metabolic Conditioning
Day 6 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
One 5-exercise circuit to target all the muscles of the body and leave you feeling sweaty and out of breath!
Tools: 2 sets of dumbbells and a yoga mat
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Upper Body Strength
Day 8 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
An all-upper body strength workout, combining large and small muscle work. We'll be working pairs of exercises, Tabata-style, with moderate to heavy weights.
Tools: pair of moderate & heavy dumbbells
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Lower Body Strength
Day 9 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
Grab your heavier dumbbells and prepare to work your glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps. Exercises in this mini-circuit style workout will also challenge your single-leg balance and strength! Have a chair nearby to use for light support and possibly, for...
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Mobility and Balance
Day 10 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A short, whole-body recovery session, focusing on hip, shoulder and hamstring mobility and single-leg balance work. All movements will be performed from standing.
No equipment is needed.
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Cardio Tabata
Day 11 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A short, intermediate to high-intensity circuit-style standing cardio workout, with low impact and knee-friendly options provided.
No equipment is required!
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Benchmark Workout Pt 2
Day 12 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
It's time to check our progress. Look back at the notes you took on Day 1. Our goal today is to increase the weights for as many exercises as possible. A good rule of thumb when lifting heavier is to aim for a 10% increase in the amount of weight used....
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Lower Body Strength - BOSU Optional
Day 15 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
There's nothing like a BOSU ball for levelling up a leg workout! This all-lower-body strength session incorporates single-side and offset-load work to engage your core and strengthen the muscles around your hips, knees and ankles.
Options are provide...
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Mobility Flow
Day 16 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A restorative, whole-body mobility session. We'll be flowing through pairs of movements performed at a gentle pace, focusing on breath work and range of motion. The perfect follow-up to a challenging strength workout or longer cardio session.
All mov...
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Upper Body Strength w/ Booty Band (optional)
Day 14 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
Grab your dumbbells and a booty band for an all-upper body, all-standing strength session. Exercises focus on the smaller and accessory muscles to enhance your ability to perform the bigger muscle lifts later this week.
No Booty band? Not a problem. ...
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Lower Body Strength and Core
Day 18 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge. Booty bands and dumbbells pair well together when working the lower body and core muscles. Join me in this three-exercise circuit-style workout in preparation for the upcoming benchmark finale!
Equipment: pair of moderate & heavy dumbbells, yoga mat, bo...
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Upper Body Burn
Day 19 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge. This workout focuses on upper body strength. We'll start standing, move to a kneeling position and end up on the floor. Grab two to three sets of dumbbells. A small, rolled-up towel on hand to cushion your knee from the floor during exercises performed f...
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Mobility & Stretch for the Hips & Shoulders
Day 20 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge. A short mobility workout to improve the range of motion in the spine, hips and shoulders. Add this sequence to the end of any strength or cardio workout before you settle into your static stretches. It's also a great mid-day total-body wake-up!
Equipmen...
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Cardio Core Tabata
Day 13 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge. A Tabata workout focusing on standing cardio and both standing and seated core. Intervals are short but intense, with knee-friendly, low-impact and wrist-friendly options provided.
Tools: mat for floor work
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Metcon EMOM
Day 17 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge.
A six-exercise, every-minute-on-the-minute style workout. Move through each exercise required number of reps in less than a minute. The more quickly you complete the task, the bigger the rest break between exercises. Choose dumbbells that are just heav...
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Benchmark Workout - Final Round
Day 21 21-Day Jumpstart Fitness Challenge. It's time to do a final check on our progress. Look back at the notes you took on Day 1 & 12 increase the weights for as many exercises as possible. Remember, a good rule of thumb (when lifting heavier) is to aim for a 10% increase in the amount of weig...
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Posterior Shoulder Strength and Stability
Workout 1 of this 2-part series focuses on the posterior rotator cuff muscles and tendons. You'll need a light to moderate resistance Theraband (resistance tubing works as well; just make sure it’s long enough and not overly hard to stretch).
Use this as a warm-up before a strength workout, or a...