Category: Flexibility
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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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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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While I was training my clients the other day, there was a young member that was working out in the gym. The exercises that he was doing took me back to my glory days of lifting iron. Back then my goals were Popeye arms that measured at least 15”—if not 17”, a 400 lbs barbell…
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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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After doing handstands four days a week for a year, intermittent fasting and eating like a rabbit for months, I was really looking forward to my beach vacation. Once in Rehoboth, I gave myself a hall pass to eat and drink everything under the sun; I am happy and sad to tell you I feel…
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You know how you go to a good yoga class and just feel nice and loose? The next day, however, you sense that the flexibility you gained has simply disappeared like one of Kate’s peanut butter banana cream pies left in the fridge. The reason for this is because not only do we need to…
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For a long time before I got into the fitness business, I was taught that we need to stretch our muscles, or in other words, elongate our muscles, to increase our flexibility. Although this sometimes might be the case with kids that have growth spurs, where their skeletal bones outgrow their soft tissue, for most…
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Father’s day is coming up and I am gonna experience my first Father’s Day…crazy! I was telling Janet, one of my clients, today that I could not have imagined, when I started working with her 15 years ago, that I would let alone find a great girl to marry, but I, who can barely put…