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Fitting exercise into your busy daily schedule may mean embracing the 21st century A novel idea- that you could use the timing of a television show to work out incrementally. Most health professionals will recommend that you get at least 2.5 hours of exercise/week and that is on the low end. What they don’t say…

Life often puts us in a position where we feel over-worked, under nourished and, consequently, stressed out.  A powerful way to fight stress is by carving out a few minutes from the daily routine to practice controlled breathing. Today I want to highlight a technique known a breathing technique which can be done from anywhere…

Body weight training rests on the idea that you can gain or improve fitness without any equipment. It is a stripped back method of working out that requires no gym membership and can be performed wherever you like. We want to focus on: Burning calories to maintain a healthy body weight Building muscle Strengthening the…

A new year means new opportunities for improving the health of your back! This new year, the time is now to start doing something about chronic back pain. The majority of humans will experience back pain at some point in their life, and most cases will heal themselves. For a growing number of us, however,…

While secondary in importance, cooling down post-exercise is a great way to finish off your work out  Cooling down helps us transition from the intensity of working out to the slower pace of relaxing and going about your day. If your work out is a fluid story, then the cool down is the feel-good ending,…

Warming up is more important in winter! Frozen muscles are not productive muscles and with winter fast approaching, it’s time to up your warm up game. Reasons why you want to pay extra attention to warming up include remaining injury free and getting the most out of your work out this winter. Cold muscles are…

Where does neck pain come from? Neck pain is often symptomatic of a deeper lying cause; you may be experiencing symptoms of pain in the neck, but they are very likely caused by a misalignment elsewhere. Your head could be stuck forward in a position that undermines the stability of your spinal column; your pelvis…

Pain and tightness in the shoulders and upper back is a problem created and perpetuated by mechanical and muscular shortcomings, particularly to do with the trapezius, a trapezoid-shaped muscle that occupies the center of your upper back. The upper trap is the part that starts in the back of your head and attaches to the…

With winter fast approaching and the holiday season in full swing, it is important to make a concerted effort at maintaining your activity levels. Even if temperatures remain more mild in Houston than other parts of the country, it is still conceivable that levels of activity will drop when the hours of daylight are considerably…