You increase the strain on your neck muscles 3-fold when you are staring into a computer for hours on end or sitting for too long. Your head weighs approximately 8% of your bodyweight. If someone weighs 150 lbs, then their head weighs 12 lbs. This may not sound like much especially when your head is…
2 SIMPLE steps to creating balance in your body! This is not as hard as it is sometimes made out to be. One of the things that baffles my mind is that in most fitness books there is little mention on creating a better balance when exercising. There will be some great content but more…
It is said the tongue may be the strongest muscle in the body. Seeing as though it is a muscle, we can use it to help stabilize our neck when doing exercise! In a supine position (lying on your back), the tongue positions itself further back in the mouth. When slowly rolling up from a…
A PHENOMENAL exercise to improve your core control is the Woodchop with a medicine ball or dumbbell. To execute the exercise: Get into a ½ kneeling position (you can narrow your base for more of a challenge) Grab a medicine ball, start from a high diagonal position, and “chop” it down to the opposite side…
This past December, we had a pretty heavy snowfall. While some of it melted, we can be sure that more of the white stuff is on the way and with the snowfall comes shoveling and MORE shoveling. But shoveling doesn’t need to equate to low back pain. With proper technique and precautions, you can keep…
Of all the well-known muscle groups in the lower body, the quadriceps group in the front of the thigh is the some of the most used and abused! The legs, from hips down, will get injured if the body does not understand how to eccentrically accept loads…in other words efficiently decelerate. This is where our…