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What Muscles Really Do–and Why You Should Take Note

January 17, 2012 0 Comments

At the risk of contradicting weight room dogma, I’m going to boldly assert that not a single muscle is there to make us look better at the beach. While that may be the motivation to exercise for a lot of people, cosmetic workouts don’t, on their own, get you very far functionally and can even […]
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The Great Joint Compromise: Stability vs Mobility

November 14, 2011 7 Comments

“The body is a bundle of careful compromises” ~R. Nesse & G. Williams, Why We Get Sick Nothing exemplifies that statement better than your joints, the designs of which boil down to exactly that: a compromise. It’s an issue of stability versus mobility– each joint a trade-off between structural sturdiness and maneuverability. And […]
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