Mentally: Practice self-care Read books you’ve been wanting to tick off the list Watch documentaries, learn new things. Look at articles online Write/blog memoirs or stories..get out of your head. Sketch/paint/draw…get creative Teach your dog new tricks/complete some obedience training with them. Things that you wouldn’t normally have the time for. Listen to music and…
What comes into power?
What is power? The ability to exert a maximal force in as short a time as possible. Strength + speed = power. Strength is the maximal force you can apply against a load. Power is proportional to the speed at which you can apply this maximal force. Jumping with weights or throwing weights are classed…
Does foam rolling actually do anything?
Soft tissue work is imperative for performance. When muscles have the appropriate tonic state (nerve impulses that maintain a normal tonus or level of activity in muscle or other effected organs), they will fire more efficiently. Ideally if we all had the money to we would go and see a trained expert for our soft…
2020 Weightlifting
Current PB’s: Back squat – 100kg Front squat – 85kg Snatch – 50kg Clean & jerk – 65kg Clean – 66kg Rack jerk – 70kg Current best comp total: 109kg Current overall total: 115kg
Why should we perform anti-rotational exercises?
A good workout program should make you move in every direction – forward, backward, sideways and even rotationally. We need to be strong in every plane of motion to help us prevent injury when moving in everyday life. But sometimes strengthening ourselves so we can move better and prevent injury means performing Anti-Rotational Exercises. Anti-Rotational…
Small everyday habits count.
My sleeping habits are always something I’m working on but I’ve been thinking about my other habits too. Every day I get up and the first thing I do is walk my dog, it’s good for him for obvious reasons and it’s good for me. It sets me up for the day with some mild…
Exercising with fibromyalgia
It is difficult to study the effect of exercise on fibromyalgia. Properly designed resistance training regimens are safe and have been shown to improve FM patients’ pain tolerance. Recently, researchers have demonstrated that strength training helped to prevent a loss in muscle mass, quality, power, and strength – which are all usually accelerated in FM patients….
Protecting your energy from people.
If you look up codependency on google you will find it is defined as; “excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one who requires support on account of an illness or addiction”. As much as codependency can be when someone relies on someone else for their happiness, it can also be a trait…
Dogs as therapy
While research on the subject still has a long way to go, the idea that animals are good for our health has been around for some time. There are cases of doctors trying to incorporate animals into psychiatric settings as far back as the 1700s, to try to calm patients and improve their quality of…
Biological Power
The fact is, Fibromyalgia is a neurological disease that affects a person’s sensory processing system. Brain imaging and studies have found that fibromyalgia is a disorder of the central nervous system. These findings would mean that someone with this disease would lack in a specific area that is needed for successful biological power, therefore meaning…
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