Rehab

Pain and Exercise – Knowing when to suck it up

November 14, 2010

Pain is an evolutionary response that evolved to get you out of physical harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work all too well. Sometimes it starts screaming at us when there’s no real physical harm. Other times, it slacks off and doesn’t tell us about physical harm until some massive damage has been done. That’s why you [...]

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How I Herniated A Disk and What I Did to Recover

October 3, 2010

This post is about how I suffered a herniation at L3-L4, and subsequently, what I’ve done in the one year following that to get back to lifting. Let’s cut to the chase. Go back to September 2009, and I was finishing up a training cycle with the Texas method. It ended with me bringing up [...]

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Warming up for Exercise – A Layperson’s View

March 6, 2010
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Today’s topic ties in with a recent post of mine, ‘Can You Run Safely?’ Part of staying injury-free during exercise is to ensure that your body is prepared for the forthcoming exertion. This preparatory phase is known as the warm-up. Why I want to address this topic, is simply because the layperson doesn’t seem to [...]

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Sitting for too long gives you bad posture

July 20, 2009

Firstly, I am going to refer to this article by JC of JCDfitness: Improve Your Life by Improving Your Posture Additional Resource: Soft Tissue E-manual To sum up the article, a young and athletic 22 year old managed to get Lower Cross Syndrome simply because he was sitting around too much. What do you think [...]

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