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What if you don’t want to exercise all the time, but you don’t want to go back to the deconditioned state you were in before? Or what if you need to take a break, for any of the many reasons [...]

People often struggle to find time to exercise, or maybe they feel an aversion to exercising. It can easily become one more task on an endless to-do list that never quite becomes the top [...]

Why is it hard to do the things we know are healthy? I’ll bet most people have at least one area where they struggle with some lifestyle choice, knowing that there is a better option, but not [...]

I just got back from a three week trip to Italy with my beloved. It was delightful to try restaurant dishes without much care as to how far the ingredients were ranging outside of my usual [...]

The top and bottom images show two triathletes age 40 and 70. The central image shows a male 4 years older than the older triathlete, and sedentary. Notice not only how little muscle there is, [...]

So, we find that the positive psychological benefits of massage therapy extend to reducing the stress hormone cortisol, to measurable changes in contentment and positivity, to inhibition of the [...]

People have various reasons for becoming interested in using exercise to progressively change some part of their physique or ability. But it will make a big difference in how effective you are [...]

For many years I’ve had this quote by Herophilus, the “Father of Anatomy”, on my email signature. “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot [...]

If a flare up happens, some pre-existing, physical concern, such as a knee that's been bothering a person for a while, will become aggravated. That might mean that the area becomes acutely [...]

Descending stairs (and presumably walking down a steep hill) requires 90 degrees of knee flexion ability. 90 degrees would mean that your shin becomes perpendicular to your thigh bone.