Fitness Fundamentals for Emerging Athletes
05/01/2008
The age of sensitivity is critical to increasing the bio-motor qualities of coordination, rhythm, balance, strength, speed, power and work capacity in children. As they mature, each of these qualities is trainable at different rates as well as varying times as the child ages. There is gender as well as individual differences in children’s ability to acquire these traits in relation to age.
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13 Things I've Learned the Hard Way
05/01/2008
Since my good friends Mike Boyle and Brijesh Patel have started the trend of articles and lectures that expound on lessons they have learned over the years, I thought I would throw in my 13 cents. Obviously, I haven’t learned as much as Mike and Brijesh as I can only claim 13 lessons that life has impressed upon me in my journey. However, when you are a slow learner, need repeated lessons and learn best by rote the journey is a slower but more profound process.
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Move it or Lose it: Creating a Training Platform
05/01/2008
The human body is an intricate matrix of 603 muscles and 206 bones that need to work together to produce optimal, pain free motion.
When one of these muscles becomes tight due to a loss of flexibility it will have a profound effect on the next muscle or bone in its path. Of course, there are a few muscles out of the 603 that can become tight and weak and barely cause a ripple in the overall picture. But what happens when a larger muscle loses its elasticity?
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