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Learn about the benefits and background of stretching! We look forward to sharing our knowledge of the body and how stretching benefits your physical and mental well being.
Bulging Discs and low back pain (LBP) can be caused by an imbalance between the Multifidus and Transversus Abdominis muscles.
Duration versus Intensity is one of the oldest arguments in Health and Fitness. When it comes to cardio and how long to do it, or how intense it needs to be is still being debated even though science has already settled this debate long ago. Your Beta-Oxidation cycle is the answer.
Pronounced “so-as”. Your psoas is the suspension bridge that passes through the pelvic bone and is the primary muscle that connects your upper and lower body.
A tight piriformis muscle is often a contributing factor for sciatica. This is because the sciatic nerve weaves its way through the glutes, running very close, and sometimes through the piriformis muscle. If the muscle is tight or in spasm it compresses the nerve causing the familiar pain, burning and numbing sensation. There are several stretches you can do in your own home to help release a tight piriformis and relieve lower back pain. Leg ...
Athletes and most stretching practitioners, are still over stretching which is terrible considering what we know about tonus. If you don’t know what tonus is (like my spell check right now), you are probably over stretching! Unfortunately, over stretching is woven into the fabric of athletic and competitive training.
When you work hard for months and years to develop your body through athletics or exercise you can get to a point where you are happy or no longer need to strive so hard. This is a great place to be and if you relax and take it easy you will find that it is much easier to maintain a healthy body than it was to develop it in the first place. But what you need to be careful of is time and atrophy which are the factors behind the Principle of Reversibility.
Stress and Anxiety trigger the fight or flight stress response system in our bodies. This is a Bio-behavioral response to perceived threat. But today's fast paced digital age where the world's problems are at our fingertips, our natural defense mechanism to run or fight, is killing us.
PRINCIPLE of FLEXIBILITY
Flexibility is critical to your overall health and wellness because it determines your ability to remain physically relaxed and emotionally responsive through life’s trials and tribulations. Emotional flexibility is your capacity to bend your will enough to coexist in peace with people you don’t agree with. Physical flexibility means that you can bend your body without straining or breaking. Cognitive flexibility is the ...
Progression has many different meanings within Fitness. First and foremost it means that you must “progress” your effort to increase your gains. The body is an amazingly complex biological machine that requires motion to remain alive. Every 3 seconds 50,000 cells in your body will die off and not be replaced with the same number as your body continually with less. Progressive effort is required to tell your body not to degenerate and even more if you ...
Back pain is one of the most prevalent health issues people deal with and is commonly referred to as LBP (low back pain). Google it and you will find more than 150,000,000 articles on “Back Pain”.
The Stretching Habit shows you how Simple Stretching is where everything begins. You need to know where your tight muscles are and how to relax them. This is the foundation of bringing your body back into balance.
Posture is a choice you make against stress, gravity and time. Good posture relies on strong, flexible, healthy muscles and is critical to maintain pain-free functional mobility as we age. Our skeletal structure is designed with muscles to get us around and nerves that conduct the information from our brains to do exactly that.