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Use Fitness to Work Through Emotional Upset

Life is not meant to be easy peasy and all wrapped in a pretty bow all the time. The truth about life is it can suck and be filled with very difficult emotional and even physical hardships.  Emotional junk can weigh down your brain and body causing you to retreat into a shell of self-defe…

4 Interesting Facts about Mind-Body Connection

The body and mind are intimately intertwined. We must always look at the bigger picture. Despite Western medicine’s attempt to further break the body up into distinct “parts,” everything is connected. Your stress at work and your shoulder pain are absolutely related. Your toxic relationsh…

Much Ado about Hip Mobility

Since I've made a post  about shoulder restrictions , I've received a few requests about how to loosen up stubborn hips. This is my dad, unintentionally showing off his perfect bottom position and impressive ankle dorsiflexion. One thing I'd like to mention, which has been not…

A Case Against Box Squats

The box squat is ubiquitous in both high level strength and conditioning facilities and Globo gyms. While a lot of coaches and trainers tout the box squat as being beneficial for "explosiveness" and overall strength, I am here to dispute its efficacy, and highlight some of their…

Top Exercise Questions, Answered

Come Ask The Trainer: Top Exercise Questions, answered I was lately requested by means of a writer to answer a slew of famous questions concerning health, nutrients, and private education. the questions ranged from "is it safe for pregnant ladies to workout? " to "is it bet…

Eagles Team

If you are an Eagles fan, you have to be hurting right now. Not only are they off to a 1-3 start, after winning their first game 33-27 against the Redskins, nevertheless they just seem to be making mistakes. With the rate that they are heading, they are going wrap up at 4-12, precisely th…

Fitness Training Plan

Just how many pounds do you want to lose? Five, ten, fifty200? You may be able to lose five pounds by starting to eat breakfast time every day, but it will take more than that to achieve the significant goals. Your hefty goals are achievable, though! They are going to take some work and t…

Olympic Triathlete Stuart Hayes visits the GSK Human Performance Lab

The World Triathlon season kicked off in Auckland (5-6 April), New Zealand and will culminate later on this year in Edmonton, Canada. Olympic triathlete Stuart Hayes will be hoping for a good season following his successful race in the 2012 London Games, where he participated in a support…

Smart Exercise Swaps

As you start your workout routines, one thing that you need to make sure you're doing is making the most of your time and effort in the fitness center. Though sadly, many people remain spending much too much time carrying out exercises that simply will not have them the best 'bang…

Top Apps to keep a Healthy Lifestyle

Whether it's having to wait weeks for an appointment or having to sit in the surgery waiting for someone to miss their allotted time, sometimes it's just not practical or feasible to see you GP when you feel ill. This is especially true when you're away from home either workin…

Will Creatine Help You?

Creatine is, without a doubt, one of the most popular supplements touted by bros on the market today (at least that one can legally use). Bodybuilders and other athletes use it to improve work capacity and increase size. In fact, Froiland et. al. found that about 37% of NCAA athletes take…

How to Train Your Weaker Side

Approximately 90% of the world is right handed. Those people are writing, brushing their hair/teeth, throwing, reaching, and grabbing almost exclusively with their right hands for their entire lives. With this unilateral dominance in dexterity comes deficits between the halves of the body…

Is there Such a Thing as "Too Much" Mobility?

If you Google "mobility," you can find pages upon pages of articles about how to improve your mobility at any given joint. Thoracic mobility, shoulder mobility, ankle mobility, and the like are central themes on fitness blogs all over the internet (mine included). As a trainer, …

How to Get Your First Pull-up

When I was a kid, I would dread fitness testing in gym class testing every year. One test in particular test made me most nervous: the pull-up test. Each time around, I'd think, "this is gonna be the year I do my first pull-up!" I would hang from the pull-up bar and try with…

Stop Stretching Your Hamstrings

If I had to pinpoint one "tight area" about which many people complain most, it's the hamstrings. I'll often find gym-goers using multiple methods to stretch those stubborn muscles: asking a partner to push them deeper into a stretch, or yanking on their legs with bands.…