Common diet mistakes: Getting healthy "Not-to-do's"

Have you ever used a heart rate monitor watch during a workout? If not, consider giving it a try. Opinions will vary greatly, of course, but we think monitoring the consistency of your effort is one of the biggest benefits.
If you’re doing aerobic intervals, the watch really helps you stay within your target heart [...]

Starting a new season and/or exercise regimen can be tough. I’m coming to the end of my ninth season swimming at the University of Texas. When I started high school swimming I thought it was really difficult, and at the time it was. Swimming at Texas, however, was a whole new level of rigor that [...]

For some people, exercising has been lifelong.  For others, it might just be a “blip” on their radar. Maybe you’re just getting started, or not even there yet, but contemplating “getting in shape” to become healthier.   For me the journey started over three years ago.
My son told me I was “getting out of shape.” [...]

In the gym, on the hills, with the weights, in the pool, on the stairs, beating down a local path, lying on the floor doing 100 crunches or creating art sweat on your yoga mat. It doesn’t matter its shape or form – all this hard work you have been doing is incredible and if [...]

Its been a little over three years since I started an exercise routine, believing exercising on a daily basis had lifelong benefits.  It’s also been over two years since I started following a vegan diet.  While I think I am in really good physical shape, and recent blood work has proven my animal free diet [...]

People frequently seek medical care because of a painful tendon, and often leave the appointment with the diagnosis “tendonitis.”   A tendon is a tough connective tissue structure, attaching a muscle to a bone, that can become inflamed with an abrupt change in activity.  The instructions accompanying the diagnosis of tendonitis are rest, ice, oral anti-inflammatory [...]

Distance running in the United States includes a steady increase in the number of people choosing to participate in long distance running events.  These events range from local 5 kilometer fun runs to competitive marathons.  Running injuries commonly result from the repetitive stress and strain of training over a period of time. The number of [...]

A majority of us will start the new year off with big plans of losing those holiday pounds, making healthier meal choices, and getting to the gym more often. We will start off strong, start to like the way we feel and look, and then OUCH! Sidelined by that nagging knee pain, sore [...]

“Looking at 70 teams in 18 countries over 8 seasons, 9,000 injuries later, we have found that ‘previous injury’ is by far the greatest predictor of future injury in football” — Jan Eckstrand, Soccer Industry Medical Symposium 2009. Unfortunately, there’s not a thing you can do about previous injuries. So what can one do to [...]

I’m going to throw it out there and say that MANY people find exercise to be a necessary evil.  We know we should/need to do it, but that doesn’t mean we always want to.  It’s hot, sweaty, sometimes painful business.  And it never really gets easier.  The more you can do, the more you need [...]