Fitness

If you are doing the same workouts, exercises or sport movements too frequently without enough variation - you can actually hurt your performance and yourself! Overtraining otherwise referred to, as overuse is one of the leading causes of injuries to...

If you are doing the same workouts, exercises or s...

Part II of your athletic evaluation will be another agility test, “The L-Cone Shuttle or 3 Cone Shuttle”. Remember, agility is the ability to successfully perform multiple changes of directions at high velocities. During game situations, an athlete i...

Part II of your athletic evaluation will be anothe...

This past weekend I spent some time watching the NFL Combine. Every year I am more and more amazed at the athleticism. I’m not just talking about the LB’s DB’s, RB’s or QB’s either. Watching the TE’s and linemen run, move so fluid, change direction a...

This past weekend I spent some time watching the N...

Last year I reached out to each of you with the exciting announcement that I was to run the 2012 Boston Marathon as a member of the Project Hope Team. I spoke to you about raising my level of fitness and proving that I could do it. I was lofty enough...

Last year I reached out to each of you with the ex...

Part 3 of the athletic evaluation is testing linear speed. Again, if you watched the NFL combine last week you probably witnessed some amazing 40 yard dash times. A 306lb lineman ran a 4.65, and the fastest time recorded was a 4.27. Amazing if you as...

Part 3 of the athletic evaluation is testing linea...

The ankle is the last joint connecting your entire body to your foot. And the foot is the final link between the forces your body exerts and the ground it attempts to exert those forces upon. If the ankle is injured, has poor range of motion, pronate...

The ankle is the last joint connecting your entire...

If I told you to foam roll before every workout, would you have any idea what I was talking about? Even though almost every gym you walk into these days has foam rollers, most people have no idea what they are used for or how to use them properly. ...

If I told you to foam roll before every workout, w...

If long hours hunched at your desk have left you with neck or shoulder pain, a simple move may fix it fast. A Danish study found that doing lateral arm raises with resistance bands for as little as two minutes daily significantly eased pain in 10 wee...

If long hours hunched at your desk have left you w...

1. If You Haven't Already, Join a Gym Herschel Walker never joined a gym. He achieved his chiseled physique through pushups, sit-ups and running. You're probably not Herschel Walker, and that's OK! For most of us, we need some support as well as spec...

1. If You Haven't Already, Join a Gym Herschel Wal...

It's here! The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, which translates to the busiest and most frustrating time for most of us. The combination of stress and bad seasonal habits (both nutritionally and in exercise) can and will wreak havoc on even the most...

It's here! The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, wh...

Injury is a dirty curse word in the dictionary of fitness professionals. It should be a curse jar word for you too. Injuries are setbacks and obstacles to your goals, they limit or disable your ability to work out and sometimes even do normal everyda...

Injury is a dirty curse word in the dictionary of ...

Now that we're deep in the middle of winter, you may have given into the temptation to stay indoors and escape the elements. It's easy this time of year to become less active and avoid the gym (New Year's resolution or not). Fortunately, there are pl...

Now that we're deep in the middle of winter, you m...

‘Exercising before breakfast lets you lose extra weight’, the Daily Mail reports, perhaps prompting readers to drop their sausage sarnies and pop out for a jog. However, the Mail’s sweeping headline is actually based on a very small study of just 10 ...

‘Exercising before breakfast lets you lose extra w...

Inactivity is “as deadly as smoking” reported the Daily Mail, describing how a lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world. The headline is based on a study published in the Lancet that estimates the burden of physical ...

Inactivity is “as deadly as smoking” reported the ...

“Yoga helps stroke patients recover balance,” The Daily Telegraph headlines, saying that stroke victims who took an eight-week course of yoga had better balance and felt more able in their lives as a whole. The headline is in fact a deeply unbalanced...

“Yoga helps stroke patients recover balance,” The ...

The Daily Telegraph reports that “vigorous daily exercise could repair damage caused by a heart attack”. It has long been known that the heart muscle can increase in size in response to regular exercise increasing its workload. This has been thought ...

The Daily Telegraph reports that “vigorous daily e...

Medical students are “not taught activity benefits” BBC News has reported, based on a survey checking how many UK medical schools provided their students with information on the health benefits of physical activity. This led The Daily Telegraph to cl...

Medical students are “not taught activity benefits...

"Exercise in midlife protects heart," says BBC News, while the Daily Mail tells us that "gardening, walking and DIY in your fifties can cut risk of heart disease". The news is based on a large study looking at the health of middle-aged people. Resear...

"Exercise in midlife protects heart," says BBC New...

Walking to a beat could help relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s disease’, the Daily Mail has reported. In reality, this story is based on research that examined how the walking style of 15 healthy people changed in the presence of different types of rhy...

Walking to a beat could help relieve symptoms of P...

BBC News has reported that there is “strong evidence of a link between exercise and academic performance”. The news service says that a review of previous research found a link, which could be due to exercise increasing the flow of blood and oxygen t...

BBC News has reported that there is “strong eviden...

“Just a few minutes of relatively strenuous exercise can dramatically change a person’s DNA,” according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper said new research has found that 20 minutes of exercise can “crank up the genes needed to burn fat and sugar and ...

“Just a few minutes of relatively strenuous exerci...