Benefits of Foam Rolling According to NEW Research
If you’ve been here a while, you know I’ve railed against foam rolling. Not the tool or its uses but rather, over-reliance of it. Which is often the result of the benefits …
Psychological Stress and Injury Restriction
We’ve been yammering on about how to come back to the gym when the dust settles. But today I want to talk about the other side of that coin. Namely, …
Sick and Tired: Sleep Habits and Susceptibility to the Common Cold
Did you know that if you get less than 7 hours of sleep each night, you are 2.94 times more likely to catch a common cold Sounds like most people …
Training To Failure Is Training To Fail
Fresh out of the lab, we have a new study comparing the effects of strength training to failure or without failure on trained participants. The aim of this study was to …
Shots Fired
I’m often asked about what can be done to speed up recovery. More often than not I find myself responding with… ”Recovery from what?” Because we also need to know what …
Every Corpse on Everest
”You look tired.” Said my client Sue straightfaced as they come. And you know you’re looking several shades of ruin when it’s the first thing someone says to you. I …
The Quality of Your Relationships
When you look at the happiness, well-being and quality of life studies done, there is one common link among the people who lived a happy, fulfilling life. The common denominator among them was …
Squats, Muscle Damage and Recovery
Some closing thoughts on Monday’s post for you where we talked about squats, muscle damage and recovery. The time curve of voluntary muscle activation recovery following a workout and muscle soreness …
How To Ruin Your Monday
As far as I can tell, in gyms all over the world, Monday remains the unofficial international bench press day. Where the first and freshest day of the week (for …
126 Quick Health and Fitness Tips
Do you know what’s better than 3 fitness tips? 126 quick health and fitness tips in ONE post. I wrote this list a couple of years ago but I’ve …
Does Foam Rolling Work, and What Does it Do?
For all the hype around foam-rolling these days, it may be surprising to know that we still don’t know for certain what’s happening when we do it. The underlying mechanisms are …
It’s Official: Work-Place Burnout is a Thing
In the news, work-place burnout has just become recognised officially as a mental health concern by The World Health Organisation (WHO). It now has an ICD-11 code, which is a diagnostic …