Category: Exercise
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In the good ole days of yore—in my 20’s and 30’s when I weighed 190 lbs —picking up big things up and putting them down was a passion of mine. I was young, brash, and was relatively injury free; to make this matter totally worse, I was omnipotent. But as Socrates has said: the more…
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As some of you know already, I have been doing intermittent fasting (IF) for about 3 ½ years now. The value of using IF for me: 1) Increased fat burn; 2) Increased insulin sensitivity; 3) Eat whatever I wanted to my heart’s content, which include tacos, and chips and salsa at Rehoboth.
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A few weeks ago, my sister gave me $100 to Amazon for my birthday. And guess what I bought…yes $60 worth of organic gummy bears. What did you think I was gonna say $60 worth of veggies?! As expected I’ve eaten bags and bags of those yummy, chewy, and so satisfying cuddly gelatins. Well, my…
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In the gym as well in life, there is this notion that hard work pays off. A quote that I like to say to my athletes is: “Hard work will beat talent any day, but talent combined with hard work, now that is magic.” The tennis player I train kinda looks like her. I train a tennis…
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I am a firm believer in my own made up Good Wheel Theory (GWT). What is GWT? It states that a car with the most glamorous powerful engine, but without good wheels, is useless as a pet rock. Same goes for the human body, you could have the most powerful hips and legs but without…
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The Jefferson Curls in its essence is a loaded stretch for both the lower back and the hamstring. Because the hamstrings in general are much stronger (and tighter for most of us), we can overstretch the lower back muscles while under stretching the hamstrings. A really tight hamstring prevents us from tying our shoes, putting…
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Have you ever noticed when your four-legged best friend gets up from a good long nap, it yawns and stretches out? Well, there is a name for that, it is called pandiculation. Pandiculation is a way your Fido instinctively resets his muscles after being still for a long time. So how does that help…
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It seems to me, from the reading I have done so far, that equestrian sports are far more demanding than first meets the eye. It takes stamina, strength, finesse, and muscular coordination to team up with a very large and powerful athletic equine partner. It is also clear that equestrian sports pose risks to riders…
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For as long as I can remember my main form of training myself was either bodybuilding, Olympic lifting, or powerlifting. I always thought that there was a need for external weights barbells and dumbbells and brand name weight equipment like Cybex, Lifefitness, etc to get a good workout. In 2014, however, I made a paradigm…
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One of the worst things that can happen to your fitness progress is mental burnout and over-training, which then can lead to nagging injuries–or worse, serious ones. I was starting to feel the mental burnout creeping in two weeks ago and what did I do: NOTHING. Trainers often say you have to “push through”, or…