Monthly Archives: October 2013
Unravelling the Urban Legends of Fitness Training
Eaves drop on any conversation at your neighborhood gym and you are sure to hear purported fitness “facts” that could easily rival Ripley’s “Believe it or Not” museums. Through no fault of the messenger, people frequently believe the things they hear from others simply because they consider the source credible, which in all fairness is […]
Extended Arms Can Be Tough On Shoulders
The longer I work with clients in the health field, the more “tuned-in” I have become to the recurring injuries people must navigate as a function of repetitive motion. Recently, I was talking to a Physical Therapist who shared with me an upward spike of injuries in the number of athletes she sees who play […]
Fitness Trainers Must Practice Within Their Scope Of Care
Plain and simple – personal trainers are not physical therapists, and visa-versa. While both are highly honorable professions that help individuals overcome or mediate injury and ultimately quality of life they are addressed differently and from multiple aspects . Frequently we hear from some of our clients confusion as to how these two professions are […]
Improving State-of-the-heart
It beats about 100,000 times a day and pumps over 2,000 gallons of blood through your body all through over 60,000 miles of vessels and channels throughout your body. It’s latin prefix is “cor” or “cordis” but most of us know it as “the heart.” While literature abounds with articles about heart disease as one […]