Fitness, Training, Health & Conditioning

The ability to maintain mobility in your back or more specifically for this post, your spine, is something that when you are in your 20′s you do not think about all that much. Well ok I actually did think about it quite a bit in my 20′s but I am fairly passionate about health and [...]

Stair Routines have been a standard of many workout programs for who knows how many thousands of years. Stairs are a tremendous training tool to help develop more power and efficiency in your stride. One of the major limiting factors that runners suffer from is a lack of proper muscle sequencing in their stride. To [...]

Several times recently this question has come up. People have asked me if they had to choose between cardio, resistance training, pilates, yoga, aerobics classes, or simply walking, which one would be the best one to do. Typically this is asked in the context of , “I really would rather not exercise but if I [...]

A large percentage of people sign up for gym memberships are doing so in order to lose weight. I see so many ads on the Internet that all have a secret formula, diet, or whatever it may be to lose weight. They even have a reality TV show dedicated to weight loss. Well, since it [...]

Inside the training center at the school I work at we have several sets of ankle weights. We utilize them for doing various hip strengthening exercises. Commonly however the athletes ask about why we do not train in them more frequently for things like running or agility drills. The basketball team even tells me that [...]

OUR 300TH POST !! Time really flies and I just realized that we have surpassed our 300th post. Technically this is post #312 but we were so busy getting everything in order for some very exciting new things approaching. Our next newsletter is just about finished and you should receive it within the next week [...]

We did a post awhile back about the situation with Caster Semenya. I wanted to keep you up to date on this topic and in a recent article I found from Telegraph.co.uk that gives more information on how this situation is unfolding. This has proven to be a hot topic and many people have an [...]

I was reading a book that was given to me by the Superintendent of our School System called , “The Fred Factor”. The book is a great read as it discusses the importance of being an individual that goes out of his or her way to perform their job to its fullest. The story is [...]

We had a good time watching the thousands of runners this past week at the Portland Marathon, and specifically we watched to see what the most common shoe choices were. There was a big variety due to the sheer number of people that were running but a few stood out to us as the most [...]