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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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How Does Stretching Make you FEEL?

Flexibility and mobility are terms that contribute to an efficient, pain free, and productive body. Functions such as reaching over the head to acquire objects, bending down to pick objects off the ground, or rotating the torso to get in and out of cars are common movements that require joints to be able to move …

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Healthy Dinners: Electronic Free Meals

Long days at the office require rest and relaxation.  Waking up at the early hours of the morning, commuting to job sites, and devoting energy and time to your trade requires significant psychological, emotional, and physical bandwidth.  As we make the journey home following a productive day, we look forward to seeing the inside of …

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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 …

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Why do I have poor balance?

The Olympic gymnastics anomaly, Simone Biles, put on another spectacle of elite human performance at the recent Olympic trials.  Events such walking along the balance beam with precise steps, like that of a dove hopping along a telephone line, seems as simple a task as brushing her teeth.  As she bounces off the ground to …

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Injury Prevention for the Trip of a Lifetime

“Take life by the horns.”  A phrase some of the most inspirational people live by.  The ability to accomplish tremendous feats in life are cherished by many ambitious people.  Summiting Mt. Fuji, diving in the great barrier reef of Australia, or taking an ice breaker to visit Antarctica are just a few samples of milestones …

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Exercise to focus on yourself

Many daily obligations require our time, emotions, and energy.  Relationships, jobs, and family can easily occupy a substantial number of hours throughout the day.  We all have twenty-four hours in our day.  The revolutionary finance expert Warren Buffett has the same amount of time in his day as an eighteen-year-old associate starting his first job …

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Healthy Eating: Blood Sugar Crashes

“ Sugar is the devil.”  “I avoid sugar like the plague.”  “Sugar is poison to the body.”  To a degree, most of these statements pose a compelling argument.  However, sugar within our bloodstream is critically important toward the nourishment and functions of the vital organs in our body.  If we lack sugars in our blood, our …

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