In a world where nutritionists, exercise physiologists, and award-winning biologists have filled our archives of knowledge with countless amounts of valuable dietary and food documents to refer to. It’s challenging to know what decisions to make on choosing foods that best support our quality of life. Scientists have proven that diets consisting predominantly of red …
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Jan 02
Best times to eat
“Weight loss is made in the kitchen, not the treadmill.” I overheard this comment during the start of my personal training career while working at a local gym many moons ago. To a degree, this was an accurate statement. The context of this conversation referred to the logic of consuming foods aiding weight loss by …
Dec 23
Appreciating your shoulders
Throughout our careers, we reserve days of tribute to pay homage to a person or group of people who have positively impacted our lives. Teacher appreciation day, staff appreciation day, Veteran’s day, Mother’s day, and Father’s day. These are residing in our calendar to give thanks to our parents, veterans of the military who risked …
Dec 16
Keep Picking Things Up!
If I were in a room full of thirty-year-old humans and asked the question: “Does anyone’s back hurt?”, at least half of the room would raise their hand. A mentor I followed in my years as a student in the physical therapy field once told me, “Anyone past the age of thirty is diagnosed with …
Dec 02
From the ground up
Diving to keep volleyballs from touching the ground; popping upright after sliding to kick out a soccer ball away from an opposing player; springing up off the ground after diving for an infield ground ball and gunning the ball to first base to throw out a runner booking it to first base; in high school, …
Nov 22
Carving out time to exercise
Time isn’t just the name of my favorite Pink Floyd song. It’s not just a digital number changing digits on our phones when look to see where we are in our day. The interactions, significant emotional events, and energy spent on the various experiences in our lives are what fill these brackets separated by seconds, …
Nov 08
Becoming a Recreational Athlete
Physical activity has been a facet of survival and progression throughout our existence as the human race. Building houses and farming are examples of staples in our physical activities we have conducted through the millennia which propelled society to function efficiently as it does today. The physically stressing demands of constructing structures and performing the …
Oct 12
Fitness Preparation for an Event
One of our aspiring young coaches recently completed an ultra-endurance event known as the Spartan Race. This is an event that includes eight miles of professionally designed obstacles one would see in a military boot. The only difference is a creative twist with the addition of obstacles including long distances of monkey bars, ice cold …
Oct 07
We all have enough time for exercise
Time is a piece of reality in life we can’t fully control. After reading the previous sentence, that moment will be stored in the archives of history along with the many other events we have participated in throughout our lives. The idea of time can be limiting for us. We have twenty-four hours in our …
Aug 27
ABC’s: Feet, Stability, and Balance Exercises
Last week, we reviewed the young Olympic phenom, Simone Biles and her ability to display the extents at which the human body can move in various presentations of imbalance. We concluded that Simone is a generational phenom of athletic performance that arises once a decade to set new world records in sports. While the rest …