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Everyone wants evidence for everything these days. In the PT world, the hot topic is evidence-based treatment even though a large portion of the techniques and methods that many PT’s learn in continuing educations courses and utilize every day haven’t been scrutinized in double-blinded, peer-reviewed research. In the fitness and sports training world, I think […]

This question came up recently on JP Fitness and I wanted to expand on it a little: Q: I went to a a PT this summer for my shoulder. Their was little to no isolated exercises and very little static stretching…The program consisted of a warmup with dynamic stretches (lunge variations : front, side, reverse), […]

A series of events occurred over the last couple of days that prompted me to blog today’s topic. Event #1: My wife returned from a business trip to Las Vegas (hey, it REALLY WAS a business trip). For her flight home, she bought a couple of magazines that included fitness magazines marketed to women. Unfortunately, […]

Excusitis – psychological disorder resulting from the need to defer responsibility to anyone or anything other than one’s self. This disorder is usually accompanied by rationalization disorder.I’m not a regular newspaper reader (and I don’t watch the news either). I figure that if something important happens, someone will tell me about it…and they do. I […]

Just a quick heads up. Mike Robertson and I recently did an article for T-nation. It’s called Push-ups, Face Pulls, and Shrugs. Check it out. Later