A good friend of mine, the person who first taught me about proper weight lifting technique, was recently telling me about a new injury. Since he's always been into heavy Olympic-style lifting I asked whether the injury happened while he was doing deadlifts or something similar. No he told me, it probably happened while he was renovating his house. While redoing his bathroom, he had to move a heavy cast-iron bathtub. Although at the gym he always pays close attention to prope

In a recent article on how to avoid off-days during workouts in the Wall Street Journal, track and field coach Peter Thompson is quoted on the importance of recovery time. Specifically he states "you should train to recover, not recover to train." Along with nutrition, rest is as important to your workouts as anything you do in the gym. Those of us that are passionate about exercise sometimes run the risk of over-training. When we impede our bodies natural ability to recover

I was recently at Central Park watching 2 young men playing catch with a football. One of them looked to be fairly strong, with well developed upper body muscles. His friend on the other hand was tall and skinny, with little visible muscle definition. Normally we would expect the most muscular man to be the stronger one, but when it came to playing catch, the opposite was true. Not only was the thinner guy consistently throwing the ball further, but his throwing motion looked