With the never-ending demands of modern life, many find it hard to allocate time to physical activity during the work day. But because they love a particular sport or are trying to stay in shape they try to make up for this deficiency on the weekends, going hard for hours at a time. The more you sit during the week, the longer you have to exercise on the weekends, or so the Weekend Warrior mentality goes. This approach is dangerous, as we are subjecting our body to 2 diffe

A common question patients and clients ask us is what's the best order for working out: cardio first or weight training? and can one do both in the same session? A common myth that gets passed around gyms is that doing both at the same time interrupts your results. On that question, the research is consistent: You can do both cardio and strength training in the same session without any interference in the outcome of either or your recovery. Then there is the question of which

Running done properly is a great form of exercise. If looked at in terms of how good of a workout you can get in a limited time with limited resources, few activities get you better bang for the buck, and recent research has shown that if your knees are in good shape to begin with, the long term effects of running on joints like your knees are not as bad as previously thought and might be outweighed by the benefits. Like everything else that we preach, there is a right way to

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