There’s a fine line between exercise and torturing yourself. Recently, I helped a friend of mine move into a new apartment. It was an all-day affair, with lots…
Tag: Muscles
It’s not just for working your legs! Pop quiz: what was the first major motorless transport invented by humans? Carriages? Horseback? Nope, trick question; it’s walking. The ability…
Fight off shoulder pain with stronger shoulder muscles. One may assume that moving one’s arms around are thanks to the muscles in said arms, right? Well, not exactly.…
A little more flexibility will stop that popping in your lower back. Whenever an older person appeared in one of my childhood cartoons, they always seemed to be…
Commit to it! Here’s a fun factoid: about a fourth of all adults in the United States suffer from chronic knee pain. Your knees aren’t just a bendy…
And how few is not enough? Quantifying certain activities can be a bit of a double-edged sword, and this goes especially toward workout reps. On the one hand,…
Sunlight is only one piece of the equation. It’s a commonly-held belief that spending more time out in the sunshine increases the levels of vitamin D in your…
The muscles in the chest are just as important as the muscles on it. It’s easy to forget sometimes that your heart is a muscle, just like all…