Monthly Archives: April 2011

If anyone has a few moments, check out some of the links I am posting below.

Training Principles – highlighting the general rules of designing/applying training modalities.

Early Sport Specialization – a paper weighing the pros and cons of specializing in a given sport too early in life/athletic development.

Paleo Diet Nutritional Analysis – a quick table highlighting the benefits of the Paleo Diet (I would suggest that anyone interested in supporting or discarding the general idea of a Paleo Diet take a good look at the information from Robb Wolf and Dr. Loren Cordain as well as any competing information you can find, I am looking at a lot of the research presented and I am finding good scientific support for the Paleo Diet).

I hope that some of the above links help create thought processes that will benefit anyone who decides to read the information. I will be back soon with another challenge workout!

As I am back in school I have to go back to square one with the body. As a Kinesiologist this is always a good thing. Refreshing my knowledge of the way that movements are controlled helps me more effectively direct the symphony that is human movement. I will periodically be posting pieces outlining the muscles that create the movement I am discussing. As the title of the post would suggest, I am talking about lumbar flexion and extension.

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I will start with the movement that the lumbar spine is more comfortable with, extension (this is because the structure of the lumbar vertebrae allow for more extension and the general curve is based on extension – compare the spinous processes in the pictures of a lumbar vertebrae and a thoracic vertebrae, note how the spinous process in the thoracic vertebrae angles downwards dramatically to prevent extension while the spinous process of the lumbar vertebrae angle almost straight back).

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I am awake far too late and I am not managing my time in what most people would consider an efficient manner, but this is what the universe tells me I must do. I know that sounds tangential and overly philosophical,  but it is what it is. I am driven to write down some words that I think many people, myself included, would be well served to consider. We have all, at one time or another, heard many of these words, and that is primarily because they are actually meaningful. So here goes… Read the rest of this entry →