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ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND FITNESS BLOGS, WRITTEN BY PERSONAL TRAINER & BODYWORKER, ROB STEPHENSON
Healthy Joints for Healthy Muscles
What is Joint Physiology? The human body has ~206 bones, ~350 joints, and more than 650 muscles. Simply put, our joints evolved over thousands of years. It took time in order for our hands, fingers, toes, hip, jaws, and everything else to develop the motion that it...
Why Biomechanics Matter
What are Biomechanics? Training with biomechanics takes into account your current position in space and how your body adapts to physical circumstances. As an example, lets say you have arthritis of the knees. Arthritis occurs because of joint friction, excessive...
How Training Works
YOUR SOLUTION TO TRAINING, REHAB, PREVENTING INJURIES, OR JUST IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY! Train Rugged is a protocol of physical training and bodywork that allows optimal functioning and healing to take place. It is a blend of movement patterns, joint motions,...
Reflections From A New Dad
I'm a first-time parent with a two month old baby. A heads-up, this post is coming from a biased perspective from somebody who's in the training industry. However it's also my attempt at pointing out the logic of why movement is important and plays a crucial role in...
Physical Health
In my fifteen years of being a part of the exercise and health community the subject of acquiring and improving one's health is something that most people all agree on. People want to be healthy. For some healthy is a mindset, they want to have a job that challenges...
Best Glute Exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGNKkrNyw4 Minimal equipment yet highly effective glute max lengthener In this video we are demonstrating an easy, at home corrective exercise you can do to lengthen your glute max fibers. Why do we want to lengthen them? Because if...
Born To Move
The Human Masterpiece You evolved to be able to do a lot more than squats, elliptical, pushups and play sports for your movement. You are a uniquely designed human being, with over 200 bones and over 350 joints that can orchestrate an infinity amount of patterns with...
New Year
Heading into the New Year means different things to everybody. Some see it as the time to make that change they’ve been wanting to make, and for others it’s another day in the life. I mean after all, you can make a resolution to change any time you want, right? Being...
A New World
A New World If there was a world you had never been to, and it was safe. Would you travel there? And if in that world there were answers to questions you have, and it was safe to investigate it, would you travel there? This is a concept I’ve been playing with for a...
Exercise: What Is At Stake
The short, fast, and dirty is…our body’s health is at stake. A Big Debate If you’ve seen any of my other posts, you may start to get the feeling that I’m not the biggest fan of “exercise”. Sure, I use the word every day, but that’s only to get my messages...
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