Thanksgiving is over and if you're human, you overindulged a bit...or a lot. This blueberry and goat cheese salad is a quick way to help you get back into a nourishing eating routine.
Whether classic push-ups are a mainstay in your routine or you are looking to add them in, executing them properly is the only way to tap into their value.
Making a salad loaded with fresh and healthy ingredients and then pouring store-bought salad dressing on top is a problem.
Matthew Ibrahim is the Owner of Mobility 101 and the Director of Sports Performance at Boston Physical Therapy & Wellness. He is on a mission to help athletes and clients build stronger, more resilient human movement and performance. Connect with Matthew on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Learn more about Mobility 101 on www.mobility-101.com.
Dustin Jones, PT, DPT, CSCS, RKC is a home health physical therapist with a background in athletic training, fitness, and orthopedics. He works to bridge the gap between fitness and rehab for older adults. He blogs at DustinJonesPT.com and teaches rehab clinicians how to utilize kettlebells on the Hardstyle Kettlebell Channel with Dr. Erson “The Manual Therapist” Religioso III.
To avoid plateaus in your single leg training you must progress to more comprehensive challenges. Advanced single leg performance demands synergy from the lower body, the core and the upper body.
Tim Pelot is a Senior S&C Physiologist for the US Olympic Committee. He has spent 7 years with the Olympic Committee and has worked at all 3 US Olympic Training Centers. He currently works in Southern California with the Senior National teams for Indoor Men’s Volleyball, Beach Volleyball (MN & WN), & WNS Waterpolo.
Painful or disfunctional ankles, knees or hips can make it difficult to get the most out of your training efforts.
It can be paralyzing to learn that something that was one way for a majority of your life is actually not that way. Take your time in incorporating healthy full-fat foods into your diet.
Physical training is more than breaking a sweat or burning calories - it's about skill acquisition. The Band Resisted Single Leg Stand-Up is an example of how learning a fundamental physical skill translates into training results.
It's easy to see how a universal overreaction to vitamin D has developed. Widespread vitamin D deficiency has consistently been reported, the critical functions/benefits of vitamin D are regularly raved about and it's a crudely understood vitamin at best.
Bench bridge (aka hip thrust) variations help you to develop your ability to drive force into the ground via hip extension. Applying force into the ground is what propels you up (jumping) and forward (sprinting/running) - areas that most people would be happy to make gains in.
Incorporating this exercise into your training will develop stability, strength and size of the lateral hip musculature. This is critical for activities that demand balance and explosiveness from the single leg - nearly all sport activity requires this at some level.
Saturday, I spoke at the NSCA Southern California State Clinic. There was a great lineup of speakers and a monster turnout of knowledgeable attendees. I presented on mastering the art and science of the dynamic warm-up. It was risky business attempting to step up at 8:30 am and talk about a potentially tired topic that has been regularly recycled over the years. Instead of listing off exercises and drills that can be used in a warm-up, I set out to discuss something less often covered: the 3 principles behind a successful warm-up.
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If you're a dad and the jelly bellied, flat chested, skinny armed, cropped butt look has snuck up on you, you're not alone. This look has become common enough among patriarchs that it's earned an unofficial label from the internet: "Dad Bod" - there's even a proposed scientific explanation for the cause of it. Of course if you're showcasing "Dad Bod" by design and with pride then ignore the below and stay "strong" my brother! For any "Dad Bod" club members who are looking for a way out of the club here are a few evidence-based tricks to squash it
Part 1 of this 3 part post looked at some of the secondary factors behind what makes durability so elusive for today's athlete. Part 2 then captured the training environment that today's athletes and fitness diehards live in, how/why it has changed and what that means for staying healthy. Here in part 3, we finally uncover the #1 reason that durability is so elusive for today's athlete and look at a straightforward solution.
Research suggesting that we have the ability to identify the taste of "fat" in addition to the other primary tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami) is intriguing.
In part 1 of this post, I gave attention to the secondary factors that make avoiding injury such a tall task for young athletes: poor sleep, fumbled nutrition, sport overuse and too much sitting. These factors warrant attention but even if an athlete fixed each, they would still find themselves chasing durability until they addressed the primary reason that durability is elusive for today's athlete. Let's examine today's training environment to identify the primary reason that robust and resilient young athletes are a dying breed.
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