Anyone who has experienced plantar fascitis or Achilles tendonitis can attest that the above title is true. In more severe cases, either of these problems or any other tendonitis problem can bring your activity participation to a full halt. In the more common cases, one can continue to be active, but have your [...]
‘I asked Ferrari if Armstrong represents some peak of human performance.
“No.”, he said quickly. “ I don’t think so.”
I did a double take. Really? Armstrong is not the peak?
“There are many more parameters to explore,” he explained, but turned cryptic when I asked what they were.
“I am looking into the area of breathing,” he [...]
An old yoga adage states: “You are only as young as your spine is flexible”. There is a good amount of wisdom in this statement, but to have a healthy spine through your life, there is more to the equation than just flexibility. For injury prevention, recent research has shown that balance [...]
As a parent and a Physical Therapist working with Sports Medicine for the last 16 years, I have had the opportunity to develop some strong opinions related to youth and exercise. In today’s society, we seem to be battling inactivity in our children. We worry about them sitting in front of the television, playing video [...]
In our busy culture focused on productivity, multi-tasking has become a common theme as a method to accomplish more in a given amount of time. However, productivity and performance studies indicate that multi-tasking is detrimental to performance quality to such an extent that productivity is actually better if you simply focus on the current [...]
Anyone who has been paying attention to exercise theory and practice recently has heard of the terms core, core strength, and core stability. But do you really know what they mean relative to what you favorite activity may be? Lots of folks still think that core is synonymous with abdominal muscles. Abdominal [...]
What is it that makes a swimmer look so smooth in the water? A great swimmer looks like he/she is gliding over the top of the water, while their arms and legs do all the work. As the summer month descend upon us, and the competition season is here, swimmers look to spend more time [...]
One of the great benefits of doing endurance activities is developing the discipline of working towards a goal. Having an event goal focuses the efforts and provides the motivation to put time for yourself and your health into a busy life. However, if the drive to the goal begins to imbalance your life [...]
The general wisdom for endurance athletes has been to build strength during the off-season and then try to maintain those strength gains as one enters into the event season. An inherent challenge to this strategy is that the off-season is short and the in-season / competitive season is long. It is important to note [...]
Brian Beatty & Rob Schneider
It is difficult to perform and enjoy endurance exercise when any part of the lower extremity is not functioning at its best. The following quick and easy test can help determine if you are at risk for a lower extremity injury.
This simple single leg standing reach test is derived from [...]
