As trainers, a lot of our work involves doing all we can to prevent injuries from occurring. Unfortunately, injuries still happen both under our watch…
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Training Load, Injury, and Athletic Performance: Mastering the Trifecta
When training an athlete toward peak/competitive performance whether post-rehabilitation or from current ability, training load must exceed capacity. With carefully planned increases in load, the…
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Avoiding Lifting Injuries
As fitness professionals, we accept the premise that most serious strength-training athletes and bodybuilders will experience injuries at some point in time. Within a 1-year…
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Re-Injury Prevention: A Fresh Perspective on a Prevalent Problem
Incomplete rehabilitation in athletes, as well as the general fitness population, has led to an unfortunate re-injury epidemic. Should our goal as trainers be to…
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Ice or Heat for Pain?
As fitness professionals, we have well-acquainted ourselves with the PRICE protocol; pressure and ice help to reduce the swelling associated with acute injuries. And when…
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Making Workout Program Adjustments When Your Client is Injured
How do you proceed when a client enters a session with a minor injury? As personal trainers, we hope and expect our clients will adapt…
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Thermal Therapy
A Soft Heat Radiant Sauna enables one to experience relaxation and exhilaration as well the health and fitness benefits of thermal therapy. In the Soft Heat Sauna, the body is thoughly cleansed, and muscle aches disappear. Radiant heat therapy improves blood circulation and can produce relief from symptoms of many musculoskeletal problems, including arthritis, rheumatism, and sciatica.
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