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Do You Commit?
Posted by: | CommentsYou might find yourself in the following situation:
- Inactive and can’t stop eating
- Emerged in your profession and can’t get away from work, even when you are at home
- Or the opposite – when you are done with work, you just go home and relax and watch TV
You might have abandoned your commitments to improve your lifestyle to achieve better health and performance.
To help you to get on track, I will share a solution with you to recommit to your commitments. Read on!
A sitting posture that doesn’t kill
Posted by: | CommentsSitting kills your back.
That’s a bold statement. Is it true?
In 1982, researchers affiliated with the Cooper Institute in Dallas surveyed affluent individuals and their sitting habits.
The study confirmed that people who spent more than 23 hours a week sitting, watching TV or sitting in the office, had a 64% percent greater chance of dying from heart disease. One take-away is that less activity burns fewer calories.
But why does sitting kill your back?
The scoop on disc pressure and pain
If you understand how the discs work between the vertebras of your spine, you will easily understand what happens to your discs when you sit more then 8+ hours per day. Look at this chart below.
The benefits (and disappointments) of massage
Posted by: | CommentsGo for a massage! Many times we have heard these words as advice after an intense training program or competitive event.
This month, in the “Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise” we are educated differently about the benefits of massage and muscle recovery.
This study tested the hypothesis that sports massage aids muscle recovery from exercise by increasing blood flow to muscles. Increased blood flow should help to remove the build up of lactic acid, which is stored in the muscles.
Twelve individuals where recruited and tested. Two minutes of strenuous isometric exercise with the forearms were performed to elevate the lactic acid in these muscles. Right after the volunteers exhausted their arm muscles, they either lay and relaxed or received a massage by a certified sports massage therapist.