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October 2024 To Speed or Not to Speed – Lift, That is? Read any layperson’s magazine or news article about resistance training (RT) and you’ll be cautioned frequently about doing the lifts slowly, with good form and proper breathing patterns. In other words, don’t fling the weights and don’t hold your breath. All is goodRead More
August 2024 Which Popular Diet Works Best? An old study comparing the effects of the Atkins (A), Ornish (O), Weight Watchers (WW), and Zone (Z) diets didn’t settle the question but does make sense of the ultimate truth of any diet: any diet that reduces caloric intake long enough will help you lose weight andRead More
September 2021 Do Common Clinical Measurements Predict Running Injury? Runners suffer injuries at a pretty high rate – 20%-80% have an injury at any point in time. Since running puts ~2.8 x body weight on the landing leg with each step, it makes sense that variables such as muscle strength, size, alignment, range of motionRead More
September 2020 Single- vs Multi-Joint Exercise: Order Matters In resistance training, exercises are divided into single-joint (SJ) and multi-joint movements (MJ). SJ are where only one joint moves, like the elbow during a curl, while MJ are those where 2 or more joints move, like a chin up. Both use the biceps but theRead More
Biologics are the up and coming therapies across many fields of medicine. For lack of better, more technical, definitions, let’s use the simple version of using our own bodies, or other parts of other bodies, to heal our own bodies. Since my main area of interest, and the reason you’re even reading this, is theRead More
June 2018 All You Ever Wanted to Know About Planks but Were Afraid to Ask A brief history of spine pain and therapy takes us through the 1950s when the abdominal curl/crunch was highly recommended by Drs. Kraus and Williams to help those with mechanical low back pain. Then in the 1970s, McKenzie came upRead More
If there’s one thing I know about the human body, it’s knees. Not that I’m an expert in knees but I have read a lot about, had a few surgeries for, and even replaced a knee . So when this article from the New York Times was brought to my attention, my ears and fingersRead More
I thought that headline would get you. The story behind it, though, is quite encouraging. A Finish study followed several women with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee for 16 months – a long term study by comparison to most in the exercise world. It had some of the postmenopausal women do thrice weekly one-hour sessionsRead More
