by Thomas Kurz Those readers who have read my previous article “Flexibility Problems, or Kiddie Stretches for Adult Joints–You Have to Be Kidding!” and also listened to the interview on flexibility and strength for PhysIdex.com already know the mystery sport, the subject of the question in my previous article. For those who have not read the […]
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by Thomas Kurz Most sports and m.a. instructors, suffering from mental inertia, apply to adults methods of increasing flexibility that were designed for children. These methods, proven to be quite effective for children, are much less effective for adults. One would expect an instructor to have read up on functional anatomy and exercise physiology prior
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by Richard J. Vahl and James B. Vahl Information on this Web page is for educational use only, and is not intended as medical advice. Every attempt has been made for accuracy, but none is guaranteed. If you have any serious health concerns, you should always check with your health care practitioner before treating yourself
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by Richard J. Vahl and James B. Vahl Information on this Web page is for educational use only, and is not intended as medical advice. Every attempt has been made for accuracy, but none is guaranteed. If you have any serious health concerns, you should always check with your health care practitioner before treating yourself
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by Thomas Kurz In this article you will learn about squats. Doing squats gives great benefits—from strengthening knee ligaments to enhancing your whole body’s strength, from increasing muscle and bone mass to enlarging the rib cage. I visited a taekwondo school once in which none of the students could do a split, and only three
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by Thomas Kurz Mark Knapp of PhysiDex.com did an audio interview with me. The interview was done over Skype, so the recording is not studio-quality, but it may still be worth your while to listen to. Here are Mark’s main questions: — What are some of the biggest myths or misconceptions regarding stretching and flexibility
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by Charles A. Richardson Your answer about the order of intensity in a workout was very interesting. While my workouts [which begin with aerobic endurance, proceed to increasingly anaerobic efforts, and end with sprints—see article “Endurance Workout: Slow to Fast or Fast to Slow?”] have increased my strength and endurance, I am, as you suggest,
by Thomas Kurz Overtraining is an unplanned and prolonged stagnation or lowering of an athlete’s sport-specific fitness resulting from overstressing the athlete. Overtraining manifests itself in all functions of the athlete’s body–not just select muscle groups or other organs–and most prominent are symptoms of dysfunction of the central nervous system, autonomic nervous system, and endocrine
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by Thomas Kurz There are ways of arranging exercises in endurance workouts that increase the recovery time for the same amount of work if it were done in a better arrangement. I will use the example from a question I received recently. The question deals with a swimmer’s endurance workout, but the answer applies to
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