A common excuse on hears for poor health is lack of time. It is very common to find middle aged male and female professionals working 55 hour weeks, helping their children evenings and weekends and finding a few hours to zone out and recover. Where on earth will they find the 150min/week for light exercise(…)
We’ll be taking a little detour from our usual suspects today. This will be a short article but one that is heart felt. Suicide is actually a growing problem, locally and globally. Suicide affects athletes. 0.1% of high school athletes commit suicide (look it up). The easiest (though not necessarily most effective) way to prevent(…)
Tae Kwon Do (TKD) is a dynamic Olympic sport practiced throughout the world. Many children participate in it but few continue on to the elite levels (as with most things). Interestingly, while injury rates in European and American football are regularly talked about in the media at large, injury rates from martial arts never seem(…)
Those of us who live in northern climes make sure to enjoy the sunshine during our brief spring and summer. Given the evolutionary importance of vitamin D and the role sunlight plays in testosterone regulation, lack of sunlight can play a critical role in health. For most weekend warriors and student athletes, fewer than 5(…)
Dancers get chucked in the non-athlete category often enough but few realize the thousands of hours they spend devoted to their craft, transforming their bodies in a way which is very similar to that of an athlete. Like athletes, dancers avoid back pain as it can destroy careers. Gildea et al, 2013 decided to study(…)
Over the past 2 decades, stability training has become a major niche within the exercise the community. Stability balls, bosus, wobble boards and many other devices have found their way into gyms. Oddly, many of these devices have been around for decades but in very specific markets. Stability balls, also known as Swiss balls were(…)
Only this week did a 72 year old patient with very few outstanding health issues ask me if she is too old to begin exercise. I calmly explained to her about movement, the plasticity of the neuromuscular system, bone density and brain function and how all are improved with exercise at any age. She was(…)
Occlusion training is very controversial. Cutting off the blood supply DURING exercise doesn’t exactly sound like a great idea. Depriving your muscles of oxygen and reducing their ability to shed metabolic waste products under physical stress can’t be good for you- can it? Cook, et al 2013 took 20 semi-professional European rugby players. 10 had(…)