Latest Fitness Industry News
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- Quality of Movement - Not Just Another Exercise [news]
- So often I find myself saying to clients we are wonderfully made, however we should have come with a manual given the high incidence of low back pain, neck pain, and other chronic issues. It’s the way we use our body rather than the task at hand. We can hurt ourselves simply leaning over the sink to clean our teeth!
- Rehab Pilates and its Application to Stability Rehabilitation [news]
- The Rehab Pilates Intensive Course teaches principles that have been adapted to be up to date with recent research bringing together the strengths of different approaches with a model that is clinically relevant and effective. We aim to create an understanding of how to choose the appropriate programme for your client and how to progress from targeting local stability, where motor control is important, through to global stability and mobility.
- Clinical Gait Assessment - Case History [news]
- Possibly the most important learning outcome that I teach during my workshop on gait is the importance of fusing history taking, kinematic observation, muscle balance assessment and knowledge of motion science together so that a full picture of the patient can be seen. These factors are all necessary in determining the true root cause of pain and dysfunction. An over reliance on one of these factors may result in poor diagnosis and treatment
- Exercise for the Painful Arthritic Knee [news]
- Exercise and rehabilitation programs for osteoarthritic (OA) knees have often been limited due to fear of exacerbating inflammation and joint cartilage destruction. Some programs have even been restricted to gentle range of motion and stretching exercises only. This article outlines strengthening techniques that have been used practically in clinic and gym settings that have achieved great results.
- Rehabilitation Programming Progressions for Shoulder Impingement and Instability [news]
- Assessing static scapula position and dynamic motion is an essential step in diagnosing shoulder impingement and instability. Static and dynamic assessment should be considered as two different issues.
- Even Scooby-Doo can't get kids to eat their carrots [news]
- Children can be influenced to eat sugary snacks that carry stickers of cartoon characters such as Shrek, Scooby-Doo or Dora the Explorer, but not healthier foods like carrots with similar stickers, according to a new Yale University study. Researchers at Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity asked children ages 4 to 6 which snacks they wanted: gummy fruit, graham crackers or carrots labeled with stickers of the cartoon characters, or identical snacks without the stickers. They also asked which tasted better.
- How Bacteria Can Help You Lose Weight [news]
- When it comes to bugs like bacteria and parasites, we've been trained to think that less is better. But there are some good guys in the microbial world — bugs that do the unglamorous work of keeping us regular and helping to relieve a range of disorders from diarrhea to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Now a new study suggests that the same microbes may even help us stay slim.
- No-Shame Programs May Appeal to Obese [news]
- Obese people prefer lifestyle change programs to help them shed excess pounds, rather than strategies that focus only on weight loss, a new study finds. Australian researchers conducted a telephone survey of 142 obese people and asked their opinions about government regulation, public health initiatives, media campaigns, personalized fitness programs, gastric banding surgery, and commercial diet groups.
- The Science of Appetite [news]
- Somewhere in your brain, there's a cupcake circuit. how it works is not entirely clear, and you couldn't see it even if you knew where to look. But it's there all the same—and it's a powerful thing. You didn't pop out of the womb prewired for cupcakes, but long ago, early in your babyhood, you got your first taste of one, and instantly a series of sensory, metabolic and neurochemical fireworks went off.
- Obesity Is Contagious, Study Finds [news]
- Wondering why your waistline is expanding? Have a look at those of your friends. Your close friends can influence your weight even more than genes or your family members, according to new research appearing in the July 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The study's authors suggest that obesity isn't just spreading; rather, it may be contagious between people, like a common cold.
- Study: The Best Exercise for Diabetes [news]
- It's no secret that exercise is key to controlling type 2 diabetes — and many doctors already urge their diabetic patients to get active. But it's a vague directive: How much exercise is enough? How often? And what kind?
- What's More Important in the Obesity Battle – Physical Activity or Medical Treatment? [news]
- Experts disagree in the British Medical Journal about the best way to tackle the obesity crisis. Baur and colleagues argue that physical inactivity is just one marker and that there is substantial evidence that unhealthy diets low in fibre and high in sugar and large portion size are also responsible for obesity and the diseases associated with it.
- Compression Garments Don't Boost Athletic Performance [news]
- Contrary to what many athletes would like to think, a new study shows that compression garments have no effect on sports performance. Indiana University researchers found that lower leg compression sleeves don't affect a runner's oxygen consumption, which means there is no improvement in running economy or efficiency. Their study of 16 highly trained male distance runners also found that lower leg compression garments have no impact on running mechanics.
- Help for Women Runners With Knee Pain [news]
- Patellofemoral pain (PFP) occurs when the thigh bone rubs against the back of the knee cap. Typically, pain doesn't occur when someone with PFP first starts a run. But once the pain begins, it gets increasingly worse. The pain disappears almost immediately after the person stops running.
- Moms' full-time work tied to childhood obesity [news]
- The growing number of full-time working moms in the past few decades could be one of the factors contributing to the concurrent rise in childhood obesity, new research hints. When the researchers looked at factors that could be associated with the trend, they found that mothers' full-time employment, which was more common in the younger generation, appeared to be one.
- Obese and Pregnant [news]
- How sad and frightening that our health care system is willing to invest in ‘longer surgical instruments, more sophisticated fetal testing machines and bigger beds’ and even bariatric surgery for the one in five women who are obese when they become pregnant.
- Bright idea for medical breakthroughs [news]
- New Zealand's glow-worms could be used to help monitor blood sugar, test drugs and take medical images because of the tiny part of their tail that gives out light. Otago University scientist Miriam Sharpe has begun a three-year study into what makes makes the insects glow, with the ultimate hope of seeing the native glow-worms help with medical breakthroughs.
- Muscle Mass in Elderly Boosted by Combining Resistance Exercise and Blood Flow Restriction [news]
- For years, researchers have known that resistance exercise training -- such as weightlifting, in which muscles work against gravity or another force -- can be one of the most effective ways to fight the debilitating muscle loss caused by aging.
- The Power of a Gentle Nudge [news]
- Phone calls, even voice recordings, can get people to go to the Gym. Unable to push herself to exercise, Ruthanne Lowe joined a research study aimed at motivating the sedentary with a surprisingly simple technique—an occasional telephone reminder.
- Phys Ed: Do Our Genes Influence Our Desire to Exercise? [news]
- Is the urge to exercise bred in our bones? That’s the intriguing question that European researchers recently set out to examine by looking at the activity habits of 37,051 sets of twins. Twins are popular with geneticists, because they provide a neat statistical model for determining whether a behavior is influenced by genetics or exclusively by environment.
- A growing number of baby boomers see sports as a way to feel young again [news]
- A growing cadre of baby boomers who seek the proverbial fountain of youth in swimming pools, on running tracks and in the gym. Many have taken up sports -- even extreme sports -- in mid-life, pursuing fitness not only to look good but to feel good.
- Motor Control Progressions in Action [news]
- Progressing any exercise programme smartly requires considerations above and beyond basic muscle physiology. As detailed in the article Getting Smarter with Exercise Progression, a good practitioner will also consider, among others, autonomic nervous system physiology, motor control physiology and hormonal axis physiology.
- Enjoy the great outdoors — on a treadmill [news]
- As scientists sing the praises of fresh air and exercise, a reporter is put through her paces at an outdoor gym. Scientists from the University of Essex have said that just five minutes of exercising in the open air could improve your sense of wellbeing, as well as increasing life expectancy and warding off mental illness.
- Tasty snacks to nibble on and lose weight [news]
- Eating between meals doesn't have to torpedo smart eating. How you can enjoy dark chocolate and almonds and still lose weight. Researchers looking into the way we snack tell us that choices need not be simply based around those that provide the fewest calories.
- Cowboys don't last in the modern fitness industry [news]
- Fitness Australia, the health and fitness industry association, has responded to recent media articles questioning the standard of personal trainers in the fitness industry. The association has also highlighted changes it has made to help consumers more clearly identify qualified registered personal trainers making it even harder for the cowboys to stick around.
- One in three of the World's children are couch potatoes [news]
- Australian children aren't the world’s only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to study of over 70,000 teens in 34 nations.
- Parks a key to physical activity [news]
- Public parks and recreation amenities play an important role in facilitating physical activity especially in low income communities , according to visiting United States academic Professor Myron Floyd. His research focuses on the role of parks and recreation amenities in facilitating physical activity especially in low-income communities, the influence of race and ethnicity on leisure activity preferences, and environmental justice in relation to public parks.
- Gym Guide urges safe and effective warm ups [news]
- With an aim to prepare goers for their workouts, Pro-Visual Publishing is urging greater awareness of the benefits of a dynamic mobility warm up prior to exercising through its National Guide to Fitness & Health.
- Physical Activity Associated With Healthier Aging [news]
- Physical activity appears to be associated with a reduced risk or slower progression of several age-related conditions as well as improvements in overall health in older age, according to a commentary and four articles published in the January 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine
- Getting Smarter with Exercise Progression [news]
- When considering how we are going to progress our clients from their current physical capacity to a physical capacity that matches their goals, most exercise and rehabilitation professionals think about how to progress musculoskeletal range of movement, stability and strength using the basic principles of muscle physiology and adaptation.
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