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| Ever since Mike Robertson and I introduced our Magnificent Mobility DVD, we’ve been inundated with email inquiries about how what we’re recommending is different from yoga and Pilates. And, those that actually appreciate the difference keep asking what we think about it.
Let me preface this entire article by saying that I’m all for anything that makes people enthusiastic about exercise, or gives individuals an outlet to relieve stress. If you’re not moving, you need to move – regardless of what it takes to make you do so. With that said, I gave these two modalities three strikes before I called them “out.” Here are my main issues with Yoga and Pilates:
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| Episode 9 of the FitCast, with Eric Cressey
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| To some, resistance training is the Rodney Dangerfield of the running community; it gets no respect. To others, it’s like Tom Cruise; runners think it might be useful, but it just doesn’t make any sense to them. And then, there are those to whom resistance training is like Abraham Lincoln; it’s freed them from being slaves to ineffective programming. As a performance enhancement specialist who has a lot of “Abe” endurance athletes under my tutelage, I’d like to take this opportunity to bring the Rodney and Tom runners in the crowd up to speed. With that in mind, let’s look at the five most prominent myths present in the running community with respect to resistance training
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| If you're an athlete - you must squat. Period. This straight-to-the-point gives you 10 tips you can use right away to instantly increase your squat strength, which means more strength on the combat field!
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| Listen to this exclusive 20 minute interrogation with Eric Cressey as he goes into great detail about what all athletes should be doing before they train!
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| If you needed an expert on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, you might contact Professor Daniel Mahoney at Assumption College.
For an expert on squatting, there’s Fred “Dr. Squat” Hatfield of the International Sports Sciences Association.
For an in-depth discussion of deadlifting, I contacted Eric Cressey, M.A., C.S.C.S.
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| Keeping kids healthy involves so much more than annual checkups and immunizations. Exercise, recreational fun and good nutrition are all part of the road to good, life-long health. The Pediatrics Now Fit Tips Team includes some of the most highly respected youth sports experts and trainers in the field today. These talented guys are are not only going to provide us with tips on keeping our kids fit but in helping us negotiate the often confusing world of youth sports today.
We recognize that you are doing a lot of amazing things to keep your family healthy but that you are also all very busy and finding the time to keep everyone on track is often really daunting. Small Changes, Big Results is designed to help you and your family make realistic changes to your every day lives that will help you improve the health of your mind, body and soul. The results may not happen over night, and may not require you to do more than tweak a few things here and there, but the impact on your over all health will be enormous!
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| Featured below are my top five prehab week deloading strategies. For most of you, this will be week 4 of every four-week cycle. You don't have to adhere to this strategy year-round, but rather once every two to three deloads you take.
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| Part one and part two of this series outlined exercises to improve posture on the bike and increase leg strength. In this last installment, we'll look at two strategies for keeping you healthy over the long haul.
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| As we learned in part one, cyclists can gain an advantage by training off the bike. The corrective exercises presented here work toward increasing performance strength, allowing you to deter injuries and stay in the saddle longer.
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