Most people have deluded themselves into thinking that all those big name sports injuries were reserved just for the professional or elite athletes. Not true, my friend. Not true. How can you explain to a newbie exerciser that they have tennis elbow and haven’t picked up a tennis racket in close to a decade? How…
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Should Children Be Running For Anything Else But Play?
I don’t know about you but I love watching kids run around. They are so full of life and energy and are just having the time of their lives. They always seem to give all they’ve got when they play and then collapse in a heap on the ground, still laughing and smiling. Children don’t…
What’s Better? Free Weights or Weight Machines?
Ever since bodybuilders hit Venice Beach in California, there has been a never ending battle between the purists of weight training and those who just want to build a better mousetrap, or bodybuilder as the case may be. What was it going to be? Free weights? Weight machines? Or dare I even say it, both?…
Beauty is More Than Skin Deep: Eating for Clear, Healthy Skin
It’s not a stretch to think that what you put in your body on the inside will eventually reflect itself on the outside, namely with your skin. So while you may have loved that extra cheese pizza with pepperoni, your skin probably didn’t appreciate it. But when you treat yourself to loads of fresh vegetables…
What’s The Deal With Sugar? Or Why Sugar Is Evil
Glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose, galactose. All sugar. Brown sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s sugar, corn sweetener, dextrose. All sugar. High fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin, maltose, malt syrup, molasses, cane juice. All sugar. Agave nectar, brown-rice syrup, date sugar, fruit-juice concentrate, honey, maple syrup, sucanat. All sugar. Erythritol, hydrogenated starch hydrolysates, isomalt, malitol, mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol. All…
The Benefits Of Strength Training For Kids
You can’t turn on a television, radio or the computer these days without hearing, eventually, something about childhood obesity. What are we going to do about it? Here are some more alarming statistics. Who are we going to blame today? It’s gotten to the point where we as a society are becoming numb to any…
The Benefits of Weight Training for Women
There’s an old myth that says that women shouldn’t be lifting heavy weights because it will make their bodies bulky, like a man’s body. So a lot of women shy away from lifting weights at all when they exercise and stick to just cardiovascular exercise. The problem with just doing cardiovascular or aerobic exercise is…
Does It Pay To Have An Alter Ego?
Superman has Clark Kent. Batman has Bruce Wayne. Spiderman has Peter Parker. Every self respecting superhero has an alter ego. Is it time for you to have one? Would it really pay for you or I, relatively normal human beings, to have an alter ego? I say yes and probably not for the reasons that…
So You Want to Run Your First Marathon- Where Do You Start?
So you just decided that you want to run your first marathon! Congratulations! That’s great news! Running a marathon is a test of your endurance like you’ll never see anywhere else. It’s a full 26.2 mile journey through the best and worst of yourself in just one morning. So where do you start? Is it…
Health In The Fast Lane: Just Because You’re Busy Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be Healthy
Busy busy busy. It seems like these days we are just getting busier and busier. Between working, sleeping, exercising, raising a family and having some kind of time to yourself not to mention time with friends, it looks like we are over-scheduled, over-booked, over-tired, over-planned and just over-over. Where is the time where we get…