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Posture Tips

A properly adjusted back pack will save your child’s back!

It's great to see all the smiling faces on social media getting back to the grind for their school year!  Of course, along with the biking, walking, and bussing, comes the backpack that, whether it be heavy or light, can add a substantial load on your child's back.  Hopefully they won't be walking 45 minutes…

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Training Tips

Watch where you run!

Now that it is finally summer and warmer outside, more runners take to the streets!    It is very rare that running surfaces are perfectly level.  There is always some degree of tilt (sidewalks and the sides of roads, for instance).  Running constantly on a tilted road surface can promote more ankle, knee, hip and pelvic…

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Nutrition & Wellness

Watch what you drink!

Read the ingredients!   Here is the nutritional information from a can of soda:   “Ingredients: carbonated water, caramel, color, phosphoric and citric acid, aspartame (contains phenylalanine), flavors, sodium benzoate, caffeine, acesulfamine-potassium”   Here is a can that mentions that this is “for calorie-reduced diets.”   This can, however, has no calories, no fat, no…

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Our new Summer Newsletter!

 

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A new way to release hamstring tension!

Have you felt that your hamstrings are missing flexibility?  Are you stretching every day but there is not much change? Have you tired everything?   Here is a simple exercise, which should be able to help you out as strange as it sounds and all you need is a firm rubber ball or golf ball….

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EVERYONE can do a CHIN UP!

Everyone can do a chin up… the same way everyone has the capacity to squat, lunge and do a push up! Of course, over time, we lose some of those abilities because of lack of practice!  However, the chin up is as important to the upper body as a squat is to the lower body! There is a gradual…

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Did you know?…

Did you know that…?     …Sit ups and machine training put you 180 degrees OUT OF PHASE with what a golfer should be able to do?  A great golfer rotates and EXTENDS the spine.  He/she does not FLEX it.  A golfer stands up, shifts his/her weight, and has exceptional posture and rotation.  Sitting in…

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Golf

4 steps to better golf!

4 Steps to a Better Golf Swing   Would you like some OOMPH with that swing?   Joe #1: “I really hit that ball! 220 yards!   Joe #2: “Did you see my shot? An EASY 295 yards!”   Joe #1: “Seriously! What makes you so powerful?”   Joe #2: “I practiced the FOUR crucial…

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Remember the old school principle of progressive overload?

Milo’s muscles   There is an old Greek myth that suggests that Milo of Kroton used the modern principles of weight training to enhance his physique and gain super human strength.   The myth is as follows:   He was born about 2000 years ago and was one of Greece’s most decorated athletes. His strength…

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Its all the little things that add up! Read on!

DO NOT DO THIS!       This is not an uncommon sight to see.  STOP right now!  It does not matter how heavy your purse, laptop bag, or luggage is, the fact that it is on your shoulder will skew your body alignment immensely!    What do you think would happen to this person…

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