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October 2017 The ‘Obesity Paradox’ Paradox What if a paradox is demonstrated to not be so paradoxical after all? Can a paradox be a double negative? The “obesity paradox”, developed in 1999 from observations that patients undergoing dialysis for end-stage kidney disease had lesser mortality if overweight or obese (BMI of 25-29.9 and 30-34.9, respectively)Read More
September 2017 Specificity: Neuromuscular Adaptions Depend on How You Train There are two main principles to fitness training that determine your outcomes: overload and specificity. Overload refers to making the body do more than it’s accustomed to doing, be it lifting, running, stretching or what not. Specificity refers toRead More
August 2017 Intelligent Training for Painful Muscles Believe it or not, scientists are still not sure what exactly causes musculoskeletal pain (MSP) from chronic use, overuse or abuse. A couple of Danish researchers propose a model that attempts to explain the source of such pains as are typically seen inRead More
July 2017 Old Feet and ACL Repairs Affect Balance Similarly What do the feet of older folks and those of athletes with torn anterior cruciate (ACL) have in common? The answer may solve health and sports science matters more than you’d imagine. Much of sports science deals with the musculoskeletal system but new infoRead More
Summer 2017 Training Tenets Take Back Seat to Neurological Aging Every so often, a brilliant concept crops up in the exercise field that makes such intuitive sense we trainers just want to slap ourselves with glee. Thus, over the past 20 years or so, balance and agility training for the aging population has offered theRead More
June 2017 Kids Just Wanna Have Fun… The future looks bleak from a long-term public health perspective when you consider that almost 70% of adults are overweight or obese (OO.) Considering that up to 16% of kids are obese, the long-term outlook is dim, not just physically. Many studies haveRead More
May 2017 Beware All-Year-‘Round One-Sport Play for Kids It’s baseball season again. The boys of summer are donning those funny looking pants with swagger and swing. And yet, unlike in the old days, many of these youngsters are one-sporters, playing all year around on travel teams, often more than one team concurrently. And they’reRead More
April 2017 To Sit or Not to Sit: That Is Only Part of the Question Over the past 15 years or so, health and exercise scientists have determined that occasional or scheduled physical active ( PA ) may not confer as much cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction as would be expected. The reason mayRead More
New Year, New President, New Gym It’s been a 2-year presidential campaign, but last November Americans made their choice and we now have a new president. Like any change, there’s the excitement and fear that accompanies it but when it comes to politics, it’s about evenly split. However, last November brought a change here atRead More
March 2017 Post-Rehab Knees Have Persistent Problems, but…. After a major injury to a joint, in this case, a knee, such as an ACL tear, even after repair, some neuromuscular deficits persist. A group of therapists and researchers, including a former STEPS trainer, studied the potential causes of quadriceps deficits post-ACL repair and rehab. ItRead More
