Nucleus Strength

Using a light, portable, inflatable Ball (Pilates Ball etc.) we explore many different ranges of motion/intensity.  I encourage you to be bold and invest in this piece of equipment.  It is light, feels great, is user friendly, and, as you'll see, incredibly versatile.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Using your breath to help deepen visceral awareness/control will simultaeously strengthen your abdominal wall, diaphragm (and accessory breathing movements), and shoulders efficiently and safely.  What more could you ask for?  This is a deceptively simple practice that can be employed anytime, anywhere whenever you want to connect your inner outer selves  The experience can be joyful and the results are immediate.

This episode is expressed in three separate parts.  Please feel free to only proceed as you feel comfortable/ready.  

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Using a light, portable, piece of equipment called a Pilates Circle (Pilates Ring etc.) we explore many different ranges of motion/intensity.  I encourage you to be bold and invest in this piece of equipment.  It is light, feels great, is user friendly, and, as you'll see, incredibly versatile.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Just keep moving.  As long as you are standing and comfortable- just keep moving.  The arms and legs may not be doing anything of what you are asking them, but just keep trying and moving. Coordination does not happen over night.  It takes a great amount of practice- which means, you're going to feel like you're making mistakes.  Don't worry about the 'errors': just keep moving and trying.  

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

This Episode is potentially challenging for wrists/elbows/shoulders and knees.  If you have issues with these joints, please be mindful to how you feel during each segment.  This practice will challenge and enhance balance, coordination, Strength/Flexibility.  It is a departure from our Core based workouts so that we can get a larger range of motion into our bodies.  Focusing on large global movements is an essential practice towards fulfulling full body health. 

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise. 

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

This is a sequence I use in some group class formats that have participants with neck/shoulder stiffness.  You'll benefit from practicing  moving your head/neck first before moving your torso.  Being able to differentiate between head, neck, shoulders, middle back, and lower back is an essential part of long term health and well being. Be sure to breathe and think about both how you feel as well as which part of your spine are you are moving and when...

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Recording a live class remotely over cameras/internet you get a taste of a different pace and flow.  These participants have been with me for many years.  The pace is fast and the cuing is assumed in some places.  Please take your time and remember all of the prior principals we've covered.  I recommend you place an object to represent a camera on one side of your mat to help understand spatial orientation cues...

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Knee's are a precious and precarious endeavor.  A hinge joint with some rotational capacity that transfers forces upward and downwards with each and every stride.  People often express an innate fear of either straightening or bending their knees too much.  As if staying in the middle is the safest bet.  Yet, over time, this lack of using the joint fully can severely limit it's range of motion and negatively impact daily functioning.  With the body, what you don't use, you tend to lose.  So if you never accessed the full capacity of knee mobility when you were younger, it becomes increasingly more difficult to stave off a stiffening of this joint over time.

We start standing with one foot on the floor the other knee on a bed. Using Yoga block behind the knee that is on the bed we try to bend the knee gently- without pain/strain.  If that is not enough sensation for you, you can use increasingly smaller and more dense objects to help both support and stimulate your knee.  

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Using a light, portable, piece of equipment called a Pilates Circle (Pilates Ring etc.) we explore many different ranges of motion/intensity.  I encourage you to be bold and invest in this piece of equipment.  It is light, feels great, is user friendly, and, as you'll see, incredibly versatile.

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!

Flexibility and Strength are two sides of the same coin.  You can not have one without the other yet there is no one word for both strong and flexible.  This series will help you to find this inseparable pair easily.  With minimal movements you will discover that by bringing your forehead towards you kneecap in different ways you will gain both strength and flexibility.  We start off very simply and end rather vigorously.  Cheers!

Welcome to Nucleus Strength; a Podcast devoted to Movement, Health, and Well Being. Host Eric Clothier guides you step-by-step through specific movements and exercises to help you Gain Focus, Move Better, and Feel Stronger. Utilizing his background in Dance, Pilates, Yoga, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Personal Training, Yamuna Body Rolling, as well over a decade of Full Time  hands on training experience Eric frees you to enjoy a joyful, natural, and effortless means of exercise.

Please utilize both the pause button and the speed options during play back for ease and enjoyability.  Remember your exercise regimen is your own province.  You can choose to control how you respond to the variables presented.  Use that confidence to your advantage.  -Enjoy!