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But according to Kristian Berg, author of the upcoming Prescriptive Stretching (Human Kinetics, March 2011), the inevitability of back pain can be avoided with stretching. Prescriptive Stretching presents detailed visual instruction on 40 stretches using full-color anatomical illustrations to demonstrate exactly how each stretch targets a specific muscle. “In Prescriptive Stretching, Kristian Berg offers a recipe for a pain-free life with safe and easy stretches.
In his upcoming book, Prescriptive Stretching (Human Kinetics, 2011), Berg explains how stretching can alleviate soreness and offers remedies for sleep-depriving pain that is commonly not detected until morning. Remedies: Berg advises stretching and relaxing the area around the neck and says headaches can be caused by poor sleeping posture combined with shortened muscles. Remedies: Berg advises completely changing sleeping positions or sleeping with the arms at the sides.
But according to Kristian Berg, author of the upcoming Prescriptive Stretching (Human Kinetics, 2011), the inevitability of back pain can be avoided with stretching. “If you throw your arms or legs out during the stretch, the muscle will stretch too fast,” Berg says. Prescriptive Stretching presents detailed visual instruction on 40 stretches using full-color anatomical illustrations to demonstrate exactly how each stretch targets a specific muscle.
Listen to author Stephen Cabral discuss his book. Stephen Cabral was voted the 2011 PFP Personal Trainer of the Year and has completed more than 15,000 private training sessions since 1999, helping athletes, CEOs, doctors, stay-at-home moms, and everyone in between reach their goals. In addition to his writing and training network, Stephen Cabral has shot more than 100 fitness videos that have been seen by well over 3 million viewers online.
After her breakout run in the Australian Open, including a quarterfinal win over Serena Williams, American Sloane Stephens is sitting pretty in 2013—and so is her clothing and shoe sponsor, Under Armour. But in the retail trenches of the 15 billion dollar women’s fitness apparel market, Under Armour and peers like Williams’ Nike are being challenged by an upstart that doesn’t even have a proper tennis line, let alone a WTA spokeswoman: Vancouver-based lululemon athletica. Unlike Under ...
Stephen Roth, author of Genetics Primer for Exercise Science and Health, offers expertise regarding a young boy who is considered genetically gifted, assumed to carry some specific gene mutation that contributes to outstanding physical performance. A recent TV documentary profiled Liam Hoekstra, a toddler in Michigan whose parents had noted his unusual gifts of coordination and strength and therefore sought expert opinion on the child’s condition. The underlying theme is that Liam is ...
Stephen McGregor, PhD, lead author of The Runner’s Edge (Human Kinetics, November 2009), claims that by using speed and distance devices, runners of all levels can maximize performance. A speed and distance device measures elapsed time, distance covered, speed/pace, and elevation change. Each model comes with performance management software, but McGregor also highlights Training Peaks WKO+, which works with all speed and distance devices.
Stephens College faculty and staff in Columbia, MO recently accepted a challenge from a health conscious alumna to lose a collective 250 pounds between September 1, 2010 and January 1, 2011 (read the press release). That’s right – if together they can lose at least 250 pounds, the school gains $1M. My hope is that they are planning to use a program that will promote the behavior change needed to maintain the weight loss over time, such as Active Living Everyday (ALED) and/or Healthy Eating ...
The sports and entertainment company founded by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has organized a new international soccer tournament beginning this summer. Real Madrid, Juventus, and the Los Angeles Galaxy are three of the eight teams that will participate in the inaugural International Champions Cup, which has a title sponsor and a three-year TV rights deal. A review of the team’s financial statements by Miami-Dade County also found the Dolphins have recorded $70 million in cash losses ...
**MLB Commissioner Bud Selig has declined to meet with San Jose’s mayor to discuss the Oakland A’s desire to move to his city. **The sports and entertainment company founded by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has organized a new international soccer tournament beginning this summer. A review of the team’s financial statements by Miami-Dade County also found the Dolphins have recorded $70 million in cash losses since Stephen Ross bought the team in 2008.
