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Anatomy Basics: Your Rhomboids
Did you know you have a Christmas tree on your back? No, no one gave you a sneaky tattoo last night – don’t panic. I’m talking about your rhomboid muscles – the thin muscles that line between your...
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Exercise and Mental Illness
Though under-reported and under-discussed, mental health disorders are much more common than one might think. In the western world, it is estimated that one in every four to five people suffer from...
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Exercise and Alzheimer’s Disease
To lose a loved one to Alzheimer’s Disease is to watch them slip away right from under your watch, gut wrenching and slowly. Before my grandmother was diagnosed, I had heard of Alzheimer’s Disease, and...
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Depression and Anxiety: Can Exercise Help?
Ask a regular exerciser what they like about working out, and they’ll often tell you that, among other things, they feel better for doing it – more calm, focused, and able to cope with the demands of...
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Strength Training For Cardiovascular Benefits
One of my favorite ways to give bang for buck in my workouts for my clients (and for myself), is circuit style strength training. I love it because it helps to maximize efficiency, providing both the...
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Inflammation: What’s The Big Deal?
Most of us have a some idea of what inflammation is. It conjures up thoughts of injury or infection, with swelling, heat, redness, and usually some pain and loss of function in the affected area. But...
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Fit or Fat: What You Need To Know About Body Composition
If you’re not an exercise professional or in the medical field, the term “body composition” might be a bit confusing, or mean exactly nothing at all. And that’s totally ok – you’ll never know something...
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Exercise and Stress
What springs to mind when we hear the term “stress”? For most of us, we think of heightened mental and emotional states, feelings of anxiety caused by too much work, fighting with friends or loved...
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What Is Functional Exercise??
“Functional” has been a buzzword in the health and fitness industry for many years. But how many people do you know that can tell you what it actually means? To some, the word functional may conjure up...
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Remember to Exercise: Your Brain Will Thank You!
We all know that exercise and physical activity are helpful in maintaining good physical health (I hope!) We know that exercise builds muscle, and increases fitness, and generally can make life a...
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Thoracic (Upper Back) Foam Rolling, Part 2 – Improving Joint Mobility
The start of the previous post was a little bit doom-and-gloom, talking about all the stress that we put on our upper backs. Really. We hammer them with poor posture, uncomfortable seats (and hours in...
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High Intensity Interval Training: HIIT or Miss?
High intensity interval training (abbreviated HIT or HIIT) has been an increasingly popular training method in the past years, in part made popular by the “go-hard-or-go-home” workouts of bootcamps and...
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