Did you know that compared to traditional weightlifters, CrossFitters are 1.3 times more likely to experience an injury? Most Crossfit injuries occur at the joints and spine, however, sometimes more serious injuries can occur. In fact, serious health risks can incur due to excessive Crossfit work. Many of those injuries occur at the shoulder joint. So, is Crossfit bad for your … Read More
Calling All Runners: Do You Have Good Running Form?
Whether you’re training for a half marathon or you simply enjoy hitting the pavement, running is a great form of exercise. Many people enjoy running as part of their daily routine. However, it’s important to know that you can’t fully take advantage of the many benefits of running if you’re not following good running form tactics. Having good running form … Read More
How to Avoid Back Pain When Weight Lifting: 8 Top Tips
Did you know that building up muscle is a great way to heal or prevent back pain? That’s right, having strong and flexible muscles can help prevent major injuries. The problem is that if you’re not lifting properly, you can actually cause pain and injuries in your back. This may seem counterintuitive, but the trick is making sure that you’re lifting weights the … Read More
Five steps when exercising with an injury.
Where do I start if I am trying to exercise with an injury? Exercising and becoming physically fit should not be difficult to do, but it is for most people at the beginning phase. You have the Ixcela’s fitness template and have read through what you need to do to get your body right. You are excited, but nervousness and … Read More
Improving Mobility: Your Complete Guide
Inhibitions to our mobility can be devastating. In most cases, though, it’s possible to retain most, if not all of our mobility and get back to a place where we can be functional and enjoy the ins and outs of daily life again. We’re going to explore some ways of improving mobility in this article, giving you some insight into … Read More
Sports Injury Treatment: Top Tips and Tricks
Are you sick and tired of worrying about spraining your ankle or twisting something out of place every time you play a sport or work out? The occasional sports injury can happen regardless of preparation, but if you don’t know how to treat it, it could spiral into something far worse. So what tricks can you use to treat these … Read More
Why should eye-hand coordination matter to your spinal tension?
Eye-hand coordination is more than the idea of see and catch. What matters to most people is to move and to perform at a comfortable level. If you look at the brain, almost a third of your mind is dedicated to using your eyes! That should give you an idea of how vital your vision systems are. As a duel … Read More
Why Long Beach’s premiere Sports clinic is using blood flow restriction (BFR) training and how it can help you?
There is conclusive evidence that Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training will help you tremendously. If you have any injuries that have not allowed you to do “real” sustainable strength training, this is a must read. As Long Beach’s most sought after Sports Medicine Physical Therapy professional, blood flow restriction training has been an important piece in helping triathletes, weightlifting enthusiasts, … Read More
3 reasons to not stretch your tight hip flexors pain.
The saying to keep it simple silly holds, but when it comes to fixing tight hip flexors pain, you have to understand why you should not stretch something that feels tight. A tight muscle should only be stretched out when you had a prolonged event that required you to not use that muscle(s). A case where stretching of a tight … Read More
3 Running Styles and the Impact on Your Body.
Running is a great exercise to help improve your heart, lung, and mental sanity. Did you know your running styles can tell us a lot about how well built your body is to run? There are numerous nuances and tendencies that we can write about to help improve on your run, but the article will be forever long. An example … Read More