Appropriate Eating Habits Before Competitions

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What you eat before an athletic competition can be just as important as all your physical training. It’s important to eat the right foods in the right quantity at the right time in relation to a competition. In order to do this, obviously, you need to know which are the correct foods for your body type and the activity you’re competing in; how much you ...

Exposing Shin Splints

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Shin splints are a very common injury. The good news is: treatment doesn’t require surgery. The bad news is: they’re very painful. Since the only recovery solution involves quite a lot of rest, they can also interfere with an active lifestyle. With shin splints, an ounce of prevention definitely beats a pound of cure. Fortunately, it’s easy to learn what you need to in order ...

Aquasize To A Flatter Stomach!

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Crunching your life away and still not getting the flat stomach results you expected? Maybe it’s time to try something else. One of the best ways to work on stomach muscles is by exercising in water. Because water gives your muscles more resistance than air, your muscles have to work harder. In fact, don’t be surprised if you’re sore the first few times you try ...

Dance for Children

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Dance is such a wonderful way for kids not only to be active, but to learn discipline and coordination while having fun. Unfortunately, some parents worry about gender stereotyping when their children show an interest in dance. Some feel dance isn’t “manly” enough for boys to learn, or want to push girls toward ballet when they might prefer a less stereotypically feminine dance form. But ...

Weight Lifting for Women

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Weightlifting used to be thought of as a sport for competitive body builders or people who wanted to look like them. It was considered a way to achieve a look and impress people rather than a component of fitness. But in recent years, researchers have begun to discover the health benefits of weight lifting for everyone – and it has nothing to do with bulking ...

All About Working The Transverse Abdominals

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Are your transverse abdominals getting the attention they deserve? Most workout routines designed to flatten and tighten your stomach focus on the rectus abdominus muscles (the “six pack” muscles arranged in rows at the center of the abdomen) and the vertical abdominals (situated between the rectus abdominal muscles). Even crunches, widely considered the prototypical core-strengthening exercises, target these areas and neglect the transverse abdominals. But ...

Choice – Sports Medicine or Pediatrician

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When your child is injured playing sports, do you take her to a pediatrician or a sports medicine doctor? Or both? Pediatricians specialize in kids, and know a great deal about the needs of their developing bodies. It’s definitely true that injuries in children sometimes require a little bit different treatment in children than adults, because children are still growing. Their bones are softer, their ...

Should I Lift Weights?

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Weight lifting or strength training offers numerous health benefits for men, women and even children. There are a number of ways to go about it, depending on your strength level and body type and what you hope to achieve. It’s not about becoming muscle-bound or achieving a certain look. There’s so much more to it. Lifting weights can lower your BMI. It can increase your ...

7 Great Reasons to Dance

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Dance is a great form of aerobic or cardio exercise. Like running or walking, it burns calories, reduces fat and releases endorphins to make you feel happier and less stressed out. It has additional benefits beyond what more repetitive forms of cardio offer: it also increases muscle tone and coordination, keeps muscles more limber, and, when done socially, can reduce stress and elevate moods more. ...

Combating Muscle Fatigue

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It’s hardly surprising that athletes and very active people experience occasional muscle fatigue. Working out, especially when you push yourself to go that extra step, is exactly what brings it on. But muscle fatigue is counter-productive to your workout goals. There are ways you can train that will prevent it happening. Workouts and muscles The point of working out is to gradually burn all the ...