Kinesiology, K-taping, kinesio taping, athletic tapes, and elastic tapes are all examples and names of that colorful elastic cotton strips. Almost all of us have noticed some athletes wrapping them around different areas of their bodies. The kinesio
What does good posture look like? “Keep your spine neutral”, “tuck your shoulder blades”, “avoid butt wink”. These advice stem from classic physiotherapy looking for the position in which weight is evenly distributed across the body, so that
You’ve probably heard that training too much can get you injured. You’ve probably also heard that training too little makes you weaker and more likely to get injured. This is the injury paradox. Training can both protect from
We often hear people freak out because they AREN’T getting sore, thinking that their workouts were a waste. Here’s why you don’t need to be worried. – Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is the muscle ache experience
Foam rolling may help accelerate some, but not all, indices of recovery. If you utilize foam rolling for recovery, don’t expect a miraculous effect. Further, it should only be one modality of recovery strategy that you use. Low-intensity
This is the first study to comprehensively examine the recovery time course of training to failure versus not, with matched volume. Muscle damage Metabolic markers of fatigue, an indirect marker of muscle damage, and high-, medium-, and low-load
Eight weeks of using a high daily dose (1,200mg) of ibuprofen does seem to inhibit both hypertrophy and strength development. However, previous research has shown that lower doses (400mg) may not and that the dosage in the present
Do you have low back pain or a disc herniation? While there is a lot that goes into this issue, two things to keep in mind is (1) disc herniations are among people without back pain, and (2) they can heal with time without surgery. Let’s dig deeper…
You have probably been told that it is important to do a thorough warm-up and maybe also some kind of a stretching routine before starting the “real” exercise program. Maybe there have been a time or two that
If you have been training for a while chances are that you have been injured a couple of times, and maybe still suffer from a past injury that just don’t want to heal up. If you haven’t been
