Sit and Be Fit

Mary Ann designed a special warm up to give the lower back some tender loving care.

Mary Ann focuses on fun and functional exercises set to some of her favorite music.

This episode features a potpourri of movements to enhance strength and coordination.

Mary Ann shows how to use a ball to test your reaction time.

Improving balance through weight training, stretching and leg strengthening is the theme of this episode.

Mary Ann marches her way to fitness with fun routines and patriotic music.

Muscles of pelvic floor are often ignored but this workout shows some easy movements to keep those important muscles strong.

This episode features a variety of exercises to strengthen the core with an emphasis on the abdominal muscles.

Posture is essential to any good workout. In this program Mary Ann demonstrates how to maintain good posture while exercising.

Facial exercises are important because they increase sensory awareness in mouth and encourage facial expression.

Country music sets the tone and pace for this fun full body workout.

Paying special attention to the finger joints is important in our quest to stay independent and keep our hands functioning well.

Mary Ann challenges your vestibular system with a fun ball routine and other functional movements set to jazz music.

By toning and stretching muscles around the ribcage and practicing good breathing technique viewers learn how to get the most out of each breath.

Mary Ann focuses on special exercises for the feet and incorporates a small ball for sensory stimulation.

Strengthening should always be followed by stretching as an important component to any workout.

Mary Ann explores the healing touch of massage, demonstrating some effective ways to release tension and use movement to relax.

This episode is full of functional movements to help improve performance of the activities of daily life and help you maintain independence as you age.

Mary Ann introduces some unique ways to strengthen muscles with a resistance exercise band.

Mary Ann introduces some unique ways to strengthen muscles with a resistance exercise band.

In this episode Mary Ann mixes the good old standards with new moves for a fun and effective full body workout.

This workout begins with an emphasis on weight shifting exercises to strengthen the core.

This Sit and Be Fit episode focuses on the importance of kinesthetic awareness and weight shifting as they relate to balance.

Weights are incorporated into the standing exercises to challenge static balance.

Pelvic and ribcage mobility exercises take center stage in this fun full-body workout.

Mary Ann combines a variety of exercises to emphasize the importance of strong core muscles and their role in maintaining back health.

In this episode, Mary Ann uses heel tapping, patting, clapping and changing of rhythm patterns which contribute to improving neuromuscular coordination.

This fast-paced workout ends with a peaceful relaxation, leading viewers from a state of invigoration to a place of complete tranquility.

Mary Ann explains how all the functional movements used in Sit and Be Fit workouts are designed with meaning and purpose.

This program is devoted to strengthening muscles to stabilize our joints and preserve muscle mass.

Mary Ann focuses on the importance of maintaining a healthy back with exercises that involve back flexibility, strengthening and stretching.

Good balance begins with proper spinal alignment, strong core muscles and bringing awareness to our center of gravity while weight shifting.

In this episode Mary Ann uses tactile stimulation to increase circulation and elicit a relaxed state of body and mind.

Mary Ann introduces a variety of new exercises for fingers, gait and back strengthening in this fun, light-hearted episode.

This episode focuses on stretching and strengthening the abdominal and back muscles to protect the spine and help avoid injury.

Mary Ann introduces a variety of unique exercises incorporating a large ball during the warm up and a small ball for finger flexibility and strengthening.

We rely on our somatosensory system for good balance and everyday functioning.

Mary Ann uses a small ball, a towel and large ball to release some of the restrictions that build up in the connective tissue that runs throughout the body.

Mary Ann uses the large ball in this workout to loosen up the fascia around the scapula.

In this episode Mary Ann focuses on the fun side of exercise through the use of novelty music and imaginative choreography.

Mary Ann combines a variety of exercises that improve function including a new exercise that uses the fingers and breath to control abdominal muscles.

This episode combines fun music of the Charleston and Cha-cha to demonstrate finger exercises using a pencil, sit to stand exercises and vestibular work.

Mary Ann stresses the importance of foot health. Using a small ball she shares foot exercises and massage techniques to improve circulation, range of motion and strength in the foot.