Do you ever have trouble picking music that best reflects your fitness mood? You are all dressed to go for a long walk or run and you’re feeling inspired and energetic…but you just can’t figure out which song to play on your phone or what Pandora station to select that might match those feelings? Or …
https://youtu.be/amUh9Ev4Yb4 Your knee aches every time you go down the stairs, it flares up after a long run, maybe you’ve even iced and foam rolled and gotten treatment of the knee itself, but the pain continues. What’s going on? Many of my patients are surprised when they find out that a mechanical dysfunction in their …
Is Your Knee Pain Caused by a Mechanical Problem in Your Foot? Read More »
Whether you’re running Berkeley fire-trails behind the stadium just for fun, or stepping it up for the more serious undertaking that is the Berkeley Half Marathon, you will want to learn about the most common running injuries. Furthermore, there are some simple steps you can take to prevent these injuries! As it turns out, preventing …
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Feelings of depression, fatigue, sluggishness, irritability, and not wanting to start the day’s workout are all symptoms of overtraining. You need to be honest with yourself if you are just tired, say, from not sleeping well last night, or if the tired feeling seems to be coming out of thin air. The cumulative fatiguing effect …
Photo: Flikr cc by lawrencegerald It’s early in the training season, and you’ve got the Oakland Running Festival on your mind as one of your goal races. Whether you will be running the Oakland marathon, half marathon, relay, or 5k, you NEED to be doing these exercises in order to prevent knee pain, hip pain, …
Don’t Run The Oakland Marathon Until You DO THESE EXERCISES! Read More »
When it comes to strengthening exercises for the hamstrings, there are some great exercises out there, and there are some terrible exercises out there. Do you know which ones to perform and which to avoid? Most hamstring injuries occur during the late-swing phase of gait, as the hamstrings eccentrically contract to help slow down the …
Hamstring Strengthening Exercises: Which to do & which to ditch Read More »
An updated version of this page is HERE Plantar fasciitis is a painful condition, in which a person feels heel pain (or pain elsewhere on the bottom of their foot) that is usually at its worst first thing in the morning. This condition can persist for months to years, and may cause the person to …
Painful Plantar Fasciitis Healed – Active Release Techniques Read More »
To answer this question, we need to define the term reciprocal inhibition: Reciprocal inhibition: Muscles on one side of a joint relax, in order to accommodate a contraction on the other side of the joint. For example, the triceps muscles (on the back of the upper arm), relax to allow movement of a dumbbell during …
Can One Muscle Really Turn Off Another? A Look at Reciprocal Inhibition Read More »
If you’ve regularly attended group exercise classes or sports practices for years or even decades, you may have noticed a shift in the sequencing of the workouts. Gone are the days of a one-minute “march-in-place” or a quick jog, followed by 5-10 minutes of “warm-up” consisting of 30 second holds (static stretches) of hamstrings, quads, …
