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• January 26, 2012

  No Need For Alarm

  “Alright, see you later!”  That’s what I heard my mom call to my brother this morning while he showered before school.  She was heading out to the gym, which she attends pretty religiously 5-6 days per week.  If it’s 6:43am, she’s heading downstairs; by 6:45am, she’s out the door.  Knowing that schedule, I didn’t even…

• January 25, 2012

  “Are Deadlifts Dangerous and or Overrated Exercise???”

  A few days ago, a fellow Health & Physical Education major at Adelphi sent me a video from the YouTube channel “TwinMuscleWorkout“, which as you can guess from the title is hosted by two muscular twins who workout.  As a fun point of interest, I have a twin brother, but we are seldom assumed to…

• January 25, 2012

  Deviation Is Progress

  Last week, on the very same day that I wrote that post about modifications for wrist pain during upper body exercises, I was having a little chat at the gym with a member who had wrist pain from benching and doing curls.  After a bit of a conversation, he explained that it’s been chronic for…

• January 22, 2012

  SMR, FTW

  When you student teach in an elementary school,  they warn you that you’ll get sick.  After the first two and a half weeks, I thought I had beaten the system.  Alas, when I woke on Friday, I felt like bus had parallel parked on my head.  After a rough morning, I picked up some Mucinex…

• January 19, 2012

  Rotate Your Rows (or Chin-Ups, or Presses, etc.)

  After writing a piece about how to Load Up Your Chin-Up earlier this week, I received a great comment  from one of my regular readers.  He expresses a problem, a solution, and a question.  Thanks for the feedback, John; Let’s see what if I can hit all of this: I get major wrist pain when…