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Focus on Eating Real Food and Ditch the High/Ultra Processed
Nutrition - A Focus On Returning To Our Roots Choosing the proper nutrition for our bodies is closely related to returning to our roots. This is because, before the advent of industrialization, our forefathers [...]
How To Build Healthy Habits And Make Them Permanent
How To Build Healthy Habits And Make Them Permanent Habits are a part of everyday life. For example, you wake up in the morning and brush your teeth because you have made a habit [...]
Benefits of Maintaining a Fitness and Lifestyle Journal
Benefits Of Maintaining A Fitness And Lifestyle Journal Journaling is very powerful. When it comes to creating better habits, maintaining routines or enforcing a recent lifestyle change, a journal is one of the most [...]
Blue Light and Its Impact on Our Health
Blue Light Explained What we know as light is actually a spectrum of colors. Each color consists of a different amount of wavelength and energy. For example, blue light has a higher amount of [...]
Why do Recovery?
Why do Recovery? Whether it’s muscle soreness from an intense workout or chronic pain from an old injury, it’s natural to look for some relief. So many doctors will prescribe painkillers that demand continued [...]
Posture
How is your posture? Living in a broadband powered society where information is accessible by the finger tips, being overwhelmed by the sheer load of it can be difficult. Especially when it comes to [...]
The Importance of Minimizing Inflammation While Being on a Nutrient Dense Diet
There are a few terms to be aware of to better understand what we should be aiming for in regards an optimal diet (i.e. maximal nutrient density and minimal inflammation) The concentration of nutrients [...]
The Basics Of Stretching and Flexibility
The Physiology of Stretching When it comes to stretching, it is important to understand the basic physiology of the muscles and how they work together. The muscles can contract (when tension is generated), relax [...]
Basic Physiology of the Spine and the Benefits of Training it
Basic Physiology and Movements of the Spine The spine is a long column bone structure comprising of vertebrates — separated into 4 different sections: the cervical spine, the thoracic spine, the lumbar spine and [...]
Knowing Your Parasympathetic and Sympathetic System
The Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) and the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) is part of a larger Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). Your ANS is a control system that encompasses all unconscious bodily functions and rates, [...]
Key to Long Term Shoulder Health
Shoulder pain is quite common among all individuals, no matter the activity or lack thereof. Some issues come in and out, while others never go away becoming chronic. Being aware of these issues when [...]
Your Hips Don’t Lie
Shakira said it first — your hips do not lie... Training for performance, general health, and even recovery can easily be disrupted by weak or unstable hips. In training itself, weak and unstable hips [...]
Managing Hypermobility
What is hypermobility? Hypermobility is inherently a condition where the joints have an above average range of motion (ROM), also known as being 'Double Jointed'. It's typically perceived as the complete opposite of being [...]
Rehabilitation vs Pre-habilitation (Preventive Rehabilitation)
Rehabilitation is the restoration of optimal form (anatomy) and function (physiology) with the ultimate goal to limit injury, reduce or reverse the impairment of function, and prevent, correct or eliminate altogether the disability. There [...]
Inflammation and it’s Place in the Healing Process
Healing Requires Inflammation When tissue is damaged by trauma or exercise, it heals by using your immune system, which is the same biological mechanism that you use to kill germs. Inflammation plays an important [...]
Types of Muscle, Tendon and Ligament Injuries- And How to Minimize it’s Risk!
Just as much as we would love to prevent injuries to begin with, we are still prone to it happening. Hence, it puts you at an advantage to know and recognize the types of [...]
Shoulder movements — and WHY you should know about it
It's not necessary to know 100% of your shoulder movement all-around to be better at it, or even master it. Yet a good basic knowledge of the know-hows of the shoulder can be very [...]
Simplifying Your Handstand Push Ups
The Handstand Push-up is a skill many consider can either to be daunting or too physically demanding. It does not have to be. Now assuming your progress in training has led you to accomplish [...]
Understanding the basics of your push-ups (And getting your first one right!)
Understanding the basics of your push-ups (And getting your first one right!) The Push-ups — a staple in ANY strength training regimen, are often underrated by some enthusiasts OR seen as a major obstacle [...]
How does Learning occur?
How does Learning occur? We have all spent large amounts of our lives in a classroom and therefore have some intuitions about learning as a student through extracurricular classes, sports, or formal schooling. Though [...]