Weekly Exercise: Hamstring Exercise with Furniture Sliders
For the past few weeks, we’ve been putting furniture sliders to good use! We’ve seen how you can strengthen your legs and the muscles surrounding the scapulae, and now Allison Chopra, a personal...
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Different variations to the plank target certain areas of the body. This week, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, teaches us a plank variation that uses furniture...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: Standing Exercise for the Obliques
In the next three videos, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, will be teaching us abdominal exercises to do while standing. This week’s exercise focuses on the oblique...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: Standing Abdominal Exercise with a Twist
Sometimes it isn’t practical to get down on the ground to do abdominal exercises. In this video, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, uses an elastic band and a...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: Standing Crunch
In the last exercise of this series, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, uses an elastic band to do a basic crunch while standing. Looking for more? Here are past...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: Stretch for the Arch of the Foot
Do you have plantar fasciitis or pain in the arch of your foot? This week, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, shows us a stretch to help alleviate this pain. Looking...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: ‘Farmer Stretch’
Plantar fasciitis can be very painful. In her second video in the series, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, shows us a “Farmer Stretch” that will help stretch out...
View ArticleWeekly Exercise: Calf Stretch
Pain in the arch of your foot may be the result of a tight calf muscle. This week, Allison Chopra, a personal trainer and owner of Urban Fitness Studio, shows us a stretch to help loosen the calf and...
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Two Young Trainers Purchase Urban Fitness
New owners Anna Branam (left) and Carly Dunnuck. Photo by James Kellar BY JEREMY SHERE In 2008, local fitness expert Allison Chopra founded Urban Fitness Studio — a workout place specializing in...
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Small Fitness Facilities Focus on the Individual
Acro-yoga at Hoosier Heights. Photos by Rodney Margison The second in a series about fitness facilities in Bloomington. by CARMEN SIERING Smaller fitness facilities may not have rows of cardio and...
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