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    5 Great Pilates Exercises

    In order to do these exercises correctly you need to be familiar with the Pilates concept called the ”Powerhouse”. The Powerhouse is a term used by pilates teachers referring to the collective muscles of your abdominals, gluteals and your lower back muscles. Simply the area where your core muscles are located. It can be visualized by  imagining a square between your lower ribs and your hipbones. […]

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featuredimage Creatine Monohydrate - Benefits and side effects

There is a lot of misinformation concerning creatine and more specifically the benefits of creatine versus reported creatine side effects and ...

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Apart from physical appearance, excess weight affects a person in many ways. This includes the overall quality of life, self-esteem, ...

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For quite a few medical conditions , medical practitioneers prescribe anabolic steroids. Use of anabolic steroids however is suggested with ...

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Creatine is a substance that is found naturally within the muscle cells of the body. 95% of this amino acid-based ...

featuredimage Facts about Vitamin C

                                                                                Also known as ascorbic acid, vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin. Contrary to many other mammals, humans are unable to ...

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We need protein for our muscles to grow and repair themselves. Protein is the basic building blocks of all cells ...

Exercise

What is Fitness?

Definition Of Fitness
by: Jimmy Sturo
Fitness is defined as a state of being healthy, which prepares the body for the physical necessities of daily life. To be more precise, fitness provides strength, flexibility and stamina for the proper functioning of the body. It is a total solution for a perfect, fine-tuned life. The five main components […]

Literature

Pilates; Body in Motion

Pilates; Body in Motion is by many considered to be the best Pilates workout book to date. The book has a good and extensive introduction- section where it explains all the most important concepts you need to know about before starting a pilates workout. The introduction includes the history of pilates, the benefits of pilates, the language of […]

Weight Loss

Diet Madness

  
Save Yourself From The Dieting Madness
by: Malcolm Evans

When people try to work out why diets almost inevitably fail other than in the short-term, they usually concentrate on the biological fact that the body will rebound with stored weight after it suffers food deprivation.That theory is now so well-tested as to be certainly true to some […]

Sports Injuries

Myofascial trigger point therapy for Tennis elbow

Tennis Elbow and Myofascial Trigger Points
by: Jeff Anliker, LMT

Pain associated with Tennis Elbow is often times the result of active Myofascial Trigger Points affecting the Supinator, Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus and the Extensor Digitorum muscles. Trigger Points, if treated properly by therapist, will reproduce the patient’s “painful symptoms”, exactly like they (Patients) would “normally” experience […]

Nutrition

Creatine Monohydrate - Benefits and side effects

There is a lot of misinformation concerning creatine and more specifically the benefits of creatine versus reported creatine side effects and other creatine dangers. In this article we’ll go over both sides of the creatine debate and look at just how accurate the information available is.
Creatine is one of the very few supplements that actually has years of extensive […]

General

Treatment for Sciatica

Treatment of Sciatica 

Most work-related sciatica injuries are caused or aggravated by actions such as heavy lifting, vibration, repetitive motion, and awkward posture. Sciatica is usually derived from a traumatic event, muscular imbalances,repetitive stress or a combination of these.Sciatica soreness is caused by force on the sciatic nerve, normally caused by a tightening and shortening of the piriformis muscle. […]

Physio resources

Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is defined as an inflammation of the plantar fascia and perifascial structures. There is many possible causative factors but in general it is caused by repeated trauma or overload to the plantar fascia. We will look closer at some of the factors that may predispose for this repetetive trauma to the plantar fascia […]