Barbara WintroubAre you thinking about playing singles? Be prepared! Recently at a few tournaments I attended, several players injured themselves while playing in their singles event. The injuries forced them to withdraw from all the other events they had entered and left their partners to find subs on short notice. Since I play singles as well, […]
April 2012 – Hip Hip Hooray!… How to Strengthen Those Sideways Muscles
How well do you move sideways? Do you feel as if you are weaker laterally than linearly? All of us are. We live in a linear — forward — world. We lean forward when sitting at the computer, driving and watching TV, and we walk mostly forward unless we are playing pickleball and have to […]
February, 2012 – Fitness, The Abominable Abdominals
Let’s start the new year off right by strengthening the core or the deep abdominals. We have crunch muscles (rectus abdominis), wrap-around-your-body muscles (transversus abdominis) and obliques (like placing your hands in a jacket pocket muscles). If you want a six pack (not to drink but to show off) then you need to do crunches […]
October 2011 – Do You Have Cement Feet on the Pickleball Court?
By Barbara Wintroub “Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee” – Muhammad Ali Great words of advice for all us pickleballers. Do you sometimes feel that your feet are stuck in one spot on the court floor and you’re unable – or unwilling – to move? So many players find a position on the […]
September 2011 – Maintaining Both Health and Fitness
By Barbara Wintroub As we charge into our later years, no holds barred, we concurrently insist on maintaining both our health and fitness. This reality brings me to the question: Are we really good to our bodies with what we do to them? I received a wonderful article about balancing exercise and rest for […]
August 2011 – Strenngthening Arms & Shoulders
By Barbara Wintroub Norm Davis, the USAPA Director of Training, received the following question from a gentleman in the USAPA’s Training Room: “I am an older player, and am looking for exercises that will strengthen my arms and shoulders so that I can put more on the ball.” These exercises are in response to that […]
July 2011 – How to Fall-proof Your Body
By Barbara Wintroub, Retrofit Pilates bwintroub@retrofitpilates.com http://retrofitpilates.com Are you feeling a bit physically unsteady on the pickleball court or, even more generally, in your everyday life? According to an article in ADVANCE for Physical Therapists by Mannewitz PT and Hulett PT, one out of every three people older than 65 falls each year. Add the […]
June 2011 – Dealing with Injury
By Barbara Wintroub, Retrofit Pilates bwintroub@retrofitpilates.com retrofitpilates.com This fitness instructor finally injured herself pushing her body way beyond her limits. After 3 visits to the ER, 1 to Urgent Care, several meetings with the Physical Therapist (PT) and 2 MRI’s, I was diagnosed with “over use syndrome”. All I know is I have been in […]
May 2011 – Exercising in the Car
By Barbara Wintroub Whether you and your family are going on vacation this summer by auto or RV, you will be sitting in your vehicle for miles and miles without any exercise. But you don’t have to become a ‘seat potato’! I have invented exercises that you can do either behind the steering wheel […]
April 2011 – Pickleball & Dehydration
By Barbara Wintroub, Retrofit Pilates bwintroub@retrofitpilates.com http://retrofitpilates.com Hot weather seems to have come upon us right in the middle of pickleball tournament season in Palm Desert, CA and Surprise, AZ. One person was whisked away at the Catalina Spa Tournament and I hear several succumbed to heat and dehydration at the Grand Canyon Games. It’s […]
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