Reps, sets, and changing it up in exercise.
Understanding reps, sets and other variables in exercise training is important for continuing to progress and avoid plateaus. Changing how many reps you are doing for an exercise and the …
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What is foam rolling? How to foam roll.
Sports medicine is an evolving science. There are always new techniques, and often these techniques start as anecdotal evidence. We might see that a technique does something, but science has …
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Anecdotal Evidence – A blueprint for experimentation in fitness.
Probably one of the most common ways we get involved in exercise or dieting is through our friends and acquaintances. Anecdotal evidence can be a very enticing motivation to try …
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How to perform any exercise properly.
By understanding a few simple guidelines for human movement we can design a strategy to perform any exercise properly. Becoming familiar with basic landmarks on the human body and fundamental …
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Force Couples.
So as we learned in previous posts we always have a muscle on two sides of a joint that perform opposing functions. The easiest example to give you is the …
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Muscle Function, Planes of Movement. How muscles work.
How muscles work comes down to their movement and the planes which this movement happens. The only thing that a muscle can do is contract (shorten), acting on a joint. …
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Basic idea of muscle imbalances – the point of exercise, how to approach exercise with any goal in mind.
Ely Jennis here with Strong links. I want to talk about the purpose of exercise and how to approach it with any goal in mind. Anyone can learn how to …
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