Social Media Can Help Your Fitness Journey What motivates you to exercise? There are two basic motivators: a desire to move towards a goal or the intent to avoid an outcome. For example, you may be motivated to exercise because you want to lift an additional 50 pounds. However, if you’ve been advised to start an exercise program to improve your health because you face the … [Read more...]
6 Things to Know About Muscle Imbalances
Looking better, losing unwanted weight or enhancing athletic performance are three of the most popular reasons for why we exercise. While many of us want the benefits from working out, not many of us will walk into a fitness facility and tell an instructor that we have something that needs to be fixed; yet many of us are walking around with muscle imbalances that could be … [Read more...]
The Lifelong Benefits of Being a Rugby Player – Featuring an Interview with Todd Clever
Football. Basketball. Baseball. Hockey. For years these four sports have been the dominant professional leagues in the United States. Overseas and in other parts of the world sports like soccer, cricket and rugby are wildly popular while the American sports are barely acknowledged. Now that it has a shorter, more TV-audience-friendly version, the sport of Cricket is … [Read more...]
The TEAM Approach to Fitness
A few years ago a major shoe company had an ad with a skinny model attempting to do kettlebell swings but were really the squat-to-front-raise variation that is, simply put, incorrect. To help companies avoid this pitfall, one of my roles as a consultant in the fitness industry is to work as a technical director for photo and video shoots. The job is to watch the talent through … [Read more...]