Many people think that the main goal of resistance training is to build muscle and therefore think that as you age there is a decreased need to perform resistance training. The truth, however, is quite to the contrary. Resistance training, whether through lifting weights, performing body weight exercises, or using resistance tubes or bands...
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Preventing Swimming Injuries
Most people don’t think of swimming as a very injury prone sport. Because of the low impact nature of swimming it is true that swimmers usually do not undergo as many traumatic injuries as athletes in most other sports. The repetitive nature of swimming does, however, place swimmers at an increased risk of...
Preventing Volleyball Injuries
Volleyball is a complex sport comprised of many different motions that have the potential to cause either traumatic or overuse injury to many different joints in the body. The shoulder, knee, and back are common places to get injuries while playing volleyball. Imbalances in strength and flexibility are at the center of many overuse...