Fitness, Training, Health & Conditioning

If you have not seen the article on the football player from the University of Southern California being injured while doing bench press, here is a link to one. While doing a team weight training workout he lost the bar out of his right hand and the bar fell straight onto his neck. Here is [...]

This question seems to come up all the time when I am dealing with the many bumps and bruises the athletes I work with suffer in their fall sports. The main issues are typically contact related injuries especially football for the obvious amount of contact that comes with the sport.  Usually it seems following the [...]

The last poll showed that there was no clear favorite when it comes to our favorite sport. Each of us most likely have a sport that we like or are passionate about. The High school I teach at is full of fun discussions between the various sports teams. They will argue about which sports are [...]

One of our trainers, Loren recently sent me this link to an article he was reading about a study on chronic pain for those between the ages of 50-59. The article came from Yahoo, here is the link to “Chronic Pain Makes 50 year olds Feel 80″ There is not groundbreaking discoveries in the article, [...]

Welcome Back for the 7th installment of our Fitness Tip of the Week Program. Here’s another tip that I would recommend you make a habit of during your warm-ups. During your warm-up, keep your shoes off. If you are going for a run, definitely check out some of our warm-up posts. They provide the necessary [...]

I am an avid Track and Field fan and following the World Championships this past month in Berlin there is a story that is proving to be troublesome to me. In the Women’s 800m Final the Champion, Caster Semenya, ran away from the field with the best time posted this year in the event. The [...]

After a little delay on our end to make some last minute tweaks to the “30 Days to a New Back” program we are ready to launch the second edition of our newsletter. If yo have not signed up yet you have until Sunday night to get it done. Included in this edition will be [...]

For the next part of explaining the philosophy we train with, I wanted to talk a little more about the third law. As a reminder, the third law states that your body as designed to be given stimulus in a progressive manner in order for the maximum amount of efficiency. We have always refereed to [...]

We have been working for the last several month on streamlining our training philosophy. For the last 8 years I have had a chance to begin looking at how to train the human body the way it was intended. We have put up many philosophy posts on this in the past and even though they [...]