CategoriesBone Broth Nutrition

Why You Should Be Drinking BONE BROTH To Improve Gut Health

Without a shadow of a doubt the single greatest improvement I have added to my life over the last few years has been the addition of bone broth to my diet. I drink a Tumeric flavoured bone broth at least 3 times per week and the changes it has provided to my body are astounding. The most noticeable difference has been my gut health, but other benefits like increased energy levels, less joint pain, and improved mood are things I now feel since adding this to my lifestyle. What exactly is in this drink that makes it so good? And why do so many other people like myself swear by it as something to include in your diet? In this article, I will explain what makes this unique drink so powerful to your health and a great recipe you can use to make your own drink.

CategoriesPush-ups

10 Different Ways To Do The Push-up To Challenge Your Core Stability & Strength

One of the best exercises you can add to your workout is the PUSH-UP. Considering it is such an easy exercise to do, the Push-ups delivers a real punch to your body’s health. For as much as it can give you the great physique most of us are looking for, they provide a very unique way of strengthening our bodies and targeting areas that are commonly weak. However, there are many people that find them too hard to do, and others that find it too easy to do and very boring. This is where it is handy to have a series of regressions and progressions in your toolkit to find the right type of push up for your body. In this article, I am going to take you through 10 variations of the push-up starting with the easiest version right up to the most difficult. This will provide you with a map of how to gradually progress your stability, strength, and power with this movement. You will also have several ways to mix up your workouts to keep your body challenged and training fun and exciting.

CategoriesAtrophy Osteoporosis Strength Training Tips

How Fast We Lose Muscle & The Serious Consequences It Poses To Your Health

A question I am often asked is what happens to your muscles when you stop working out for a long period of time? The answer depends on quite a few things such as age, your current training ability your current level of strength, and what was the reason you stopped training was. If you stopped from a lack of motivation then you can regain your strength much faster than if it was from a serious injury or disease that left you immobilized. In a perfect world you will never stop strength training for it is so hard to rebuild than it is to maintain muscles but sometimes things happen that are out of your control that force you to stop. This is why I always say one of the most important things you can ever do for your health is remain consistent with strength training for a long time to build up a high reserve for the speed at which you can lose muscle is astonishingly fast. It is quite unfair really, for it can take months to build muscle but sometimes as little as 10 days to lose significant strength as I will show you. Females, and the older population will lose muscle even faster and the implications to the health of their body is significant once they have lost too much.

CategoriesACL Injury Knee Pain Sports Strength

5 Critical Things You Need Before Returning To Sport After ACL Surgery

Returning to sport after an ACL injury is a long and demanding road. The common time frame following surgery is 9-12 months before a person can make a safe return to sport. The main reason for this is the time it takes the anterior cruciate ligament to vascularize (more on this later). However there is several problems within providing a recommendation based solely on a time frame, or even just evaluating the knee itself to see if it is intact. What I am going to show you in this article is that the evaluation criteria for returning to sport which uses a blanket template can be majorly flawed, for it often ignores that each person is different, and their weaknesses or reasons for sustaining the injury in the first place is what must be identified and corrected before returning to sport. Neglecting to address faulty movement patterns or restrictions at other joints is why so many athletes, both professional and amateur will suffer repeated injury and can derail even the best of athletes. If you are an amateur or professional athlete and looking to return to sport after ACL surgery this article is a must read as I show you 5 critical factors you must achieve if you want a safe return to sport and minimize your risk of another rupture.

CategoriesBack Pain Dead Hang Exercise Shoulder Pain

How Good Is The Dead Hang Exercise For Spine & Shoulder Health?

This is a question I have been asked several times in recent months on You Tube and also via email as there has been a lot of discussion around the potential benefits of this exercise for your spine and shoulder. To me, this question reminds me about the benefits of backwards walking for knee pain that I discussed in a previous article in that there are undoubtedly some obvious benefits to using an exercise like this, but the overall impact it can have is usually well and truly overstated. In some cases this can even be detrimental to the overall health and stability of the body defeating the purpose of using it in the first place. In this article, I will go into detail about how to do this correctly, and analyze the pros and cons of using the dead hang to rehabilitate a back or shoulder problem to help you determine if it is something that will benefit your body.

CategoriesStrength Training Tips

What Is The Optimal Length Of Time That A Strength Training Workout Should Last?

This is an interesting question for there are many different ways I could answer this. Like most things with health and fitness there is no definitive only way to achieve good results and this is a classic example. Some people believe more is better and a workout is not worth it until you have worked out for 60-90 minutes, developed a massive sweat, and feel totally exhausted. Whereas, others think that 30 minutes is all you need and it is more about quality than quantity. The answer lies somewhere in between the two but in a way both assumptions are correct. It all depends on the type of workout you are completing, and what the objective of the training session is. In this article, I will try to explain the different types of workout objectives and how long a session should last depending on the training goal in mind to maximize your time and effort.

CategoriesKnee Pain

Stop Treating Symptoms Of Knee Pain & Address These Four Factors

When the body is challenged with a movement it will do anything it can to find the path of least resistance and most importantly avoid pain. The site of pain is very rarely the cause of the pain, it is merely the effect of a problem created somewhere else in the body. Vladimir Janda a pioneer in the development of postural correction and movement assessment states, that “these two anatomical systems cannot be separated functionally”. Therefore, the term “sensorimotor system” is used to define the functional system of human movement. In addition, changes within one part of the system will be reflected by compensations or adaptations elsewhere within the system because of the body’s attempt at trying to maintain optimal homeostasis. Nowhere in the body is this more accurately seen than with the knee. In this article, I will explain what the most common culprits of knee pain are so you can either prevent future injury or be able to address the source of the problem if you already have a knee problem.

CategoriesButter Nutrition

Why Butter Is Actually Good For Your Health & Can Help Reduce Chances of Disease

Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death, and for the past 60 years, saturated fat and cholesterol have been wrongfully vilified as the culprits and right at the top of the list was butter as a food to avoid. If you are like me and enjoy some butter on a baked potato, toast, or corn cob, you were made to feel guilty for eating something so fattening. The media and the relentless advertising on TV tells us that margarine is much better for us, and butter is the enemy as it will make you fat and kill you! What you will find is that butter is actually a very healthy food for us to eat and it contains some rich sources of vitamins essential to function of many of our vital organs for prevention of disease. In this article I will try to shed light on many interesting things about butter that you never knew and allow you to enjoy eating this again without the guilt it is doing you harm.