Exercise science

Benefitting from exercise requires discipline and consistency. Often one of the biggest hurdles people face is holding themselves accountable. It’s important to track your progress and ensure you are improving. …

Whether you train total-body, isolate body parts, prefer cardiovascular exercise to lifting, or love HIIT training… Whether you’re into classes such as Zumba, or exercise for a sport or activity, …

ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is our bodies main source of fuel for muscle energy. When performing an exercise or physical activity, our body needs ways to produce this valuable energy source …

The hard reality is that for a long time stretching and activities involving stretching such as yoga have been practiced with the idea of certain expectations. Science has been steadily …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …