by david | Jul 7, 2015 | health & fitness, health policy
(Reuters Health) – Teenaged boys who spend too many hours in front of the computer or television without participating in enough weight-bearing exercise could develop weaker bones as they age, a small Norwegian study suggests. Childhood and the teen years are critical...
by david | Sep 16, 2014 | endurance training, health & fitness, health policy, sports news
Nice post from Quest Online Personal Training and Coaching: One of Quest’s core beliefs is that expert care leads to better results. But what does this mean in a practical sense? I read an awesome tweet from an outstanding, passionate youth soccer coach...
by david | Apr 10, 2014 | health & fitness
Yet more evidence in this article that smoking hampers bone healing. The review strengthens our knowledge of the impact of smoking on bone healing. The reduced bone healing potential in smokers, suggests that smoking cessation advice should be offered to smokers...
by david | Feb 26, 2014 | health & fitness, sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
While quad strengthening might indeed be necessary in those with patellofemoral pain adding movement retraining to quad strengthening is more effective. Nice article in the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy.
by david | Feb 9, 2014 | health & fitness, sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
In the past, I have spoken and written quite a bit about stretching. See here, here, here. Recently, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published some more articles demonstrating yet again that stretching does not help performance and that it actually...
by david | Nov 10, 2013 | health & fitness, strength & conditioning
Ever think about running an ultramarathon? Well, researchers from northern California wanted to know just what the exercise behaviors ultramarathoners looks like. These researchers gathered “information on exercise history was (from) 1,345 current and former...
