The concept of balance is thrown around a lot these days. There’s the whole yin-yang kind of balance, the stability-mobility kind of balance, and then there’s traditional balance, the being steady kind. At a very basic level, this kind of balance enables you to stand and walk without falling (no easy feat considering that 80% of walking–and 100% of running–is […]
Sprain an ankle recently?….Not the first time?? Not only are ankle sprains one of the most common injuries, but recurrent sprains of the same ankle are not unusual. It’s typical for people to chalk it up to “weak ankles,” consider themselves healed once they can walk without a limp, and resign themselves to a fate of repeated sprains. […]
Like me, you’ve probably witnessed plenty of treadmill users crank up the speed to just shy of sprinting, the incline to just shy of vertical…and then grab on for dear life! Nothing like taking a perfectly good exercise and making it less beneficial… Hanging on to the treadmill railings is self-defeating in several regards: 1) It throws off the […]