Posts tagged with flexibility

Muscle Strains: Rehabilitation and Prevention

The Anatomy
There is somewhere around 640 skeletal muscles in the human body.  Skeletal muscle is a complex network of muscle fibers, connective tissue, nervous tissue, and blood vessels.  The connective tissue forms a framework of support by surrounding individual…

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Yoga for Beginners – 6 Easy Poses to Get You Started

Yoga has been around for thousands of years. It has been studied extensively by scientists and has been shown to have great health benefits. If you are interested in learning some yoga for beginners, this article will show you six…

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Shin Splints Treatment

“Shin splints” is one of the most diagnosed injuries among recreational runners.  Shin splints is a periostitis (“itis” = inflammation of) of the lower 2/3 of the leg.  When the pain is along the inner edge of the leg, it…

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Benefits of Active Release Techniques / Soft Tissue Work

Stretching helps prevent injuries by increasing the length of your muscles, but it does not improve the quality of your muscles. If you exercise regularly, you are bound to develop trigger points, adhesion, scar tissue, and other negative things in…

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Stability / Balance Ball, Too Cheap and Effective to Not Own

I previously mentioned that the balance ball is my favorite home gym equipment on an earlier post on weight lifting to burn fat.  In this post, I will tell you why I like the balance/stability ball so much.
Bodyweight Training…

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