Fitness Topics

Perspectives on Fitness & Exercise
This part of the website is for issues about fitness and exercise, often from a different perspective than how they are usually viewed. We intend to have a high level of medical accuracy and discussion of some of the new theories about these topics. We will also include references and links for those readers wanting more detailed information.

There will be bimonthly articles (or as often as I can get them out) on a wide variety of topics, some of which are listed below. We believe you will find the topics and what we have to say about them here to be provocative, informative, and meaningful. As always, you can make suggestions for a topic you want information on and we will do our best to accommodate.

Fitness Articles:
• Unhealthy Exercise—An Interesting Paradox
• Killing The Sacred Cows of Rehabilitation
• Is REST the BEST we can do?

Future topics:
• Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Training—Pros, Cons, and Pitfalls
• Defining Orthopedic Injury and its Prevention
• Enough Is Enough—Overuse Injuries
• Rethinking Load, Sets, Reps, and Other New Perspectives on Exercise and Rehab
• Killing the "Sacred Cows" of Rehabilitation
• The ‘Chinese Water Torture’ of Bones: Stress Fractures
• Fat is a Four Letter Word?—Fat (and Protein) Consumption in the Athlete
• The Female Athlete Triad
• "Swimmer’s shoulder," "The Unhappy Triad," Tennis elbow, Shin splints, Ankle sprains, and Other Sport-Specific Injuries
• Rethinking S—T—R—E—T—C—H—I—N—G
• Is Ice So Nice?
• Loose As A Goose—Hypermobility Syndrome
• Neck-Popping—What Are You Thinking?
• "Honey, Do You Think I’m Too Fat?"…What Is the Optimal Amount of Body Fat?
• "What’s It All About, Alfie?"…What to Look For and From Physical Therapy
• "A Man’s Got To Know His Limitations"—appropriate use of trainers, personal trainers, coaches, physical therapists, and physicians
• Target Tissue Training

…and many more

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