Why do we do that? The Warm Up Warming your body it makes it more pliable. In other words it can stretch more. Your muscles are created to stretch about 150%. Just like many other substances, warming muscles up makes them more pliable so they can achieve their maximum lengthening without any damage to the muscle fibers. Stretching is best when the muscles are warm, not cold. Your joints are may be the most important thing to warm up. Especially as you age. Like me. The synovi

People want to lose weight. Often people think that running is the best way to lose weight because runners are generally skinny. Although running does burn a fair amount of calories, it is not the highest calorie burning exercise. What is it? What is the fountain of skinny exercise? An exercise that uses more MET’s. I am not talking about the New York Mets, but metabolic equivalent. When you boil it down it tells us how much energy you are expending. You probably have seen ME

My whole life I heard older people, (my definition has changed with every half decade), “wait until you are my age and see if you can do that.” The “that”, was to perform some kind of athletic action. When I was in my 40’s people said, “wait until you are 50 and see how your body acts.” When I was 50 people continued to say, “wait until you are…”. They told me about the body aches and how hard it was to keep the extra weight off. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to do wha

Have you ever seen the Four Quadrants of Time Management? If not, click on the hyperlink. Basically, there are things that are urgent or non-urgent, and things that are important and non-important. I would like to propose that you can keep your health out of the urgent box if it is in the important box. Let me explain. Health IS important to all of us at the time of some type of dysfunction. Whether it is disease or injury, our bodies are always important to us. When you have

What is happening to the word “health”. I think It is getting hijacked. For a long time I have seen guys and gals who have tremendous looking physiques but eat like crap. Then there is the guy getting his last drag on a cigarette before stepping into the gym. I understand there has always been a fuzzy line with fitness, buffness and being in shape, but the word health? Really? We talk about health like it doesn’t mean what we all were taught it meant. The meaning has been exp