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30 Minutes or Less, Cardio, Fit2B Magazine, Lower Body, Medium Routines, Non-Yoga, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Upper Body, Weights & Resistance, Workout Routines

Tabata Tone & Stretch Workout – M/TS

Posted on January 20, 2022January 20, 2022 by Beth Learn

Tabata is a style of workout that offers a a variety of exercises within a timed framework that provides a manageable level of interval training. If you want to learn more about Tabata and the country that created it, visit our Exercise Around The World course here. In this workout, we’re going to do just […]

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10 Minutes or Less, Easy Routines, Kids, No Props Required, Relaxing, Self-Care, Stretching & Flexibility, Workout Routines

E/TS – Kids Bedtime Stretches

Posted on May 25, 2017June 7, 2023 by Beth Learn

This routine can be used with any willing partner. When my daughter went through a MAJOR growth spurt and started complaining of sore muscles, I did some research. I felt like I could see her body fold into itself – knees not wanting to straighten, shoulders rounding – as her bones literally grew faster than her muscles and […]

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Sweet Talk for Your PSOAS – 4 Ways to Find Release!

Posted on January 19, 2017May 4, 2018 by Beth Learn

If you sit a lot for work or nursing a baby or just out of pure exhaustion, it’s highly likely that your psoas is tightening up to tell you something. Basically, your psoas connects your spine to your thigh bone. While it is often named alongside the iliacus as “iliopsoas,” the meat of it is […]

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10 Minutes or Less, Easy Routines, Lower Body, No Props Required, Non-Yoga, Pelvic Floor, Relaxing, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Workout Routines

E/TS – Fingers & Toes

Posted on September 15, 2016December 19, 2017 by Beth Learn

We spend a lot of time with our hands curled around devices and our feet shoved into socks and shoes. Yet, no muscle is an island. Everything that happens in the top of your body travels down. Everything that happens in the bottom of your body travels up. And sideways. And crossways. The tension in […]

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20 Minutes or Less, Easy Routines, Pregnancy, Relaxing, Stretching & Flexibility, Workout Routines

E/R/TS – Restorative Poses III

Posted on September 5, 2016August 1, 2017 by Beth Learn

In this third and final {for now} installment of our Restorative Poses Series, you will learn how to use various props to relax further into the 5 stretches listed below. Please, take a close look at the image you’re seeing in the video preview before you click play since it shows the second variation of […]

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15 Minutes or Less, Bands, Easy Routines, No Props Required, Relaxing, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Upper Body, Workout Routines

E/TS – Scarf Down Some Stretches

Posted on May 16, 2016August 1, 2017 by Beth Learn

On a colder day recently, I was watching Netflix and not feeling like “exercising.” However, I forced myself to just start by standing up and stretching a bit while I watched the show, and as I got warmer, I took off my scarf that I’d been wearing in our drafty farm house. Only I didn’t put […]

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31 Minutes +, Cardio, Challenging Routines, Core, Lower Body, No Props Required, Pilates, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Upper Body, Weights & Resistance, Workout Routines

C/TS – Fusion Mix 1

Posted on May 2, 2016August 1, 2017 by Beth Learn

This is the first of a 3-part series of playful yet intense total body strengthening moves that combine elements from Pilates, Yoga, and natural transitional movements like tripods, single-leg squats, arm balances, and even planks done safely! While this routine has zero crunches or sit-ups, it’s not for someone whose abdominal fascia is still thinned out with a wide […]

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30 Minutes or Less, Easy Routines, Non-Yoga, Relaxing, Stretching & Flexibility, Workout Routines, Yoga

E/TS/R – Restorative Poses 2

Posted on February 16, 2016August 1, 2017 by Beth Learn

This routine sets you up in several positions that let gravity do the work of stretching for you. Even though the video itself is quite short, you should spend about 20-30 minutes with these moves altogether, or anywhere from 2-10 minutes in each pose as your body allows. You’ll be shown how to get into […]

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Are Heeled Shoes the Answer to Tight Calves?

Posted on December 17, 2015April 13, 2019 by Beth Learn

Question about heeled shoes posted in our forum: “Beth is it possible for someone to have “short tendons”? My mom was told she needed to wear shoes with a heel because she has short Achilles’ tendons. Are their specific stretches to lengthen them?” -Lauren F. That question was posted in our private member forum, and […]

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20 Minutes or Less, Core, Easy Routines, Foam Rolling, Non-Yoga, Postnatal, Relaxing, Self-Care, TummySafe, Workout Routines

R/TS – Foam Rollaxing

Posted on September 28, 2015June 7, 2023 by Beth Learn

Relaxing + Foam Rolling = Rollaxing! Get it? We crack ourselves up over here, but seriously, this will become a bedtime favorite for many of you. Basically, Beth walks you through what she does on the foam roller at night while her hubs reads to their children. Foam rolling can be painful and very NOT […]

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Challenging Routines, Core, Relaxing, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Workout Routines, Yoga

C/TS – Balanced Inversions

Posted on January 17, 2015August 1, 2017 by Beth Learn

As you advance in your fitness journey, adding some balance poses will definitely increase your intensity. Especially if those poses are inversions where your head is below your heart. This pivotal workout will take you to a new level of fitness and body exploration, starting with simple inversions, then adding balancing into the equation. Note: […]

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20 Minutes or Less, Chair Routines, Core, Diastasis Recti, Easy Routines, Foundational Five - F5, Lower Body, Non-Yoga, Postnatal, Pregnancy, Relaxing, Self-Care, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Upper Body, Workout Routines

E/TS – Kelly’s Total Body Stretching

Posted on September 2, 2013June 7, 2023 by Beth Learn

Now an official part of our F5 series, this fantastic stretching routine introduces Guest Instructor Kelly Dean, licensed physical therapist and owner of The Tummy Team, as she joins Fit2B Studio to share how it’s not always about flexing and “working” a muscle back into shape; it’s also about lengthening the tight muscles that are […]

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30 Minutes or Less, Easy Routines, No Props Required, Non-Yoga, Postnatal, Pregnancy, Stretching & Flexibility, TummySafe, Workout Routines

TS/R – Simply Stretching

Posted on June 21, 2013March 15, 2022 by Beth Learn

Don’t feel like breaking a sweat? Just want to tune into your body and do some lengthening and releasing? This routine is “simply stretching” and all of the movements are TummySafe™ with minimal twisting, no crunch-like transitions, and it’s very gentle yet effective for all fitness levels. We have refilmed this workout a total of […]

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31 Minutes +, Core, Easy Routines, Pregnancy, Relaxing, TummySafe, Workout Routines, Yoga

E/P/TS – Maternity Yoga I

Posted on May 18, 2011May 17, 2016 by Beth Learn

This was one of our earliest routines filmed in 2010, and this is the NEW version refilmed during Summer, 2015. You see, shortly after we filmed this workout, we began shifting Fit2B towards total diastasis-awareness after Bethany met Kelly Dean of The Tummy Team and was educated about how some moves in this workout might contribute […]

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