Category: Over-training

  • Fitness Ruts and Burnouts

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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…

  • Trigger Points

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    The first time I heard about trigger points was over a decade ago. I didn’t know what they were but was told, by my fitness director, that they were the causes of muscle tightness and myofacial pain. Myo what?! The tragic thing about trigger points is that we have all experienced them and have suffered…

  • The Biggest Loser: THE Worst Show on TV

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    After watching one of our favorite reality shows, the Bachelor, I usually tune into watch the rest of The Biggest Loser (TBL). With an average of 7 million viewers weekly and over $100 million in annual revenue, it is one of the most popular reality TV shows of all time. I think, though inspirational in…