Tweet I’m lucky. Despite all the stiffness I had my whole life in my legs and hips, I’ve always been fairly flexible in the shoulders and upper back. But a lot of people aren’t so fortunate. Men, in particular, tend to have tight, stiff shoulders because they genetically have more muscle mass in their upper [...]
Tweet The other kids used to laugh at me in high school P.E. When you’re a kid, you’re supposed to be flexible, but I never was. While everyone else was easily putting their foreheads on their knees, I couldn’t even touch my toes. And when I started rowing on the crew team in college, my [...]
Tweet Most people are well versed on the fact that they need to stretch their hamstrings, and some people regularly stretch their quads and hip flexors (the muscles along the front of the leg and hip), but few people – save for elite athletes and dancers, really – dig into their adductors. The adductor muscles [...]
Tweet Do you wake up with full body aches in the morning? Trust me, it’s nothing you did while you were asleep. Achy muscles happen because of a build up of systemic inflammation inside your body. Inflammation is a normal biproduct of all the processes happening 24/7. Your cells are constantly breaking down and building [...]
Tweet Foam rolling is the latest fad to rip through America’s gyms. In cities across the country, scores of people can be found flopped over their foam rolls, gritting their teeth as they iron out their stiff, tight, painful muscles. But, does foam rolling really work? This is probably going to ruffle some feathers and [...]
