What does it mean to be athletic?. Is there a difference between being fit and being athletic?. My answer is yes. Fitness refers to being in good shape, the ability to be more active and energetic. Fitness is a quality we all seek, even athletes. Athleticism in the other hand is desired by all but [...]

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Mobility is the ability to perform movement along a predetermined range of motion(ROM). This ROM is predetermined by your bone structure. While working in static flexibility can improve your ROM we must teach our bodies to apply dynamic movement to develop mobility. Without the ability to create dynamic movement through a complete ROM we will [...]

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We see the term functional fitness everywhere now. What is it functional fitness?.Can you benefit from this form of training?.How can we incorporate functionality into our own workout program?. All these questions and much more will be addressed today into a one hour presentation-workout that will clear your doubts about the correct application of functional [...]

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The human body is hip dominant. The muscles around our hips allows us to stand straight and seat. They also allows us to walk, run, climb stairs, etc. When the hip complex is not well developed it puts our bodies out of balance. Our hip flexors and hamstrings get tight, our glutes don’t get activated [...]

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A few months back I meet with my ex-professor and National Fitness Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Sattler. I will put down the complete interview on this site soon but the most interesting thing he had to say was that in his field of specialty which is exercise for the elderly, physical activity was not [...]

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When I was in college 10 years ago studying in the Kinesiology program one of the greatest concerns was the lack of importance schools were giving to Physical Education. The warning to future PE teachers was that there might not be a job waiting for them. All this because of the misconception that PE was [...]

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In the culture we live in we are always looking for the next trend, the quick fix, the ultimate gadget that will make us thin. So we turn around and purchase whatever product lies to us more effectively. We want to believe those lies so it is not very hard for manufactures and authors to [...]

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Static flexibility refers to holding the stretch for a relative amount of time (15 to 30″ typically) and releasing it afterwards. Dynamic flexibility is stretching in motion, such as walking lunges or “speed skaters”. While numerous research has shown that static stretching might not benefit the athlete who is about to perform a sprint or [...]

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I was preparing breakfast this morning when an ad on TV for the Bowflex come on. I have seen many Bowflex ads before so it didn’t really called my attention too much. However, there was a line in the commercial that made me laugh at the hypocrasy of the advertisers. In it, a male model [...]

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Stability balls began as a physical therapy tool a few decades back. Now we see them in the gym being use by pretty much everyone, including trainers. While they are a good tool to have I feel that is highly overused. This overuse of stability ball exercises comes from the misconception that the unstable surface [...]

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