Obesity is perhaps the greatest health challenge modern society faces. Defined by Kenney, Wilmore, and Costill (2015) as having a body fat percentage greater than 25% in men and 35% in women, obesity affects 35.3% of Americans and is a factor in several major diseases like cardiovascular disease, stroke, type two diabetes, certain cancers, and osteoarthritis. As exercise professionals, reducing a person’s body fat percentage through diet and exercise should be a key goal of

One of the important beliefs of the American College of Sports Medicine (ASCM), is that exercise is medicine and exercise can prevent and treat diseases. Cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, and strokes, account for about one-third of deaths in the United States (Kenney, Wilmore, & Costill, 2015). Cardiovascular diseases are highly preventable with physical activity and lifestyle modifications. The ASCM recommends that to help offset cardiova

During the winter season, the most obvious environmental issue I have to deal with is cold weather. I used to coach wrestling, an indoor sport that typically takes at room temperature, so training outdoors in the cold has little transfer to match conditions. However, due to lack of space to exercise, the team performs a large number of the conditioning drills in below freezing conditions outside. This is obviously not ideal as working muscles exposed to cold lose their pa

Resistance training was for many years thought to be unsafe and un-helpful for children, with the main arguments, being that weight-training can stunt growth by prematurely closing epiphyseal growth plates, weight training is dangerous, and weight training is ineffective due low amounts of muscle building hormones circulating in children. Malina’s meta-analysis (2006) thoroughly debunked these myths, by showing weight-training does not negatively influence growth rate, by sh

Welcome to my website! I hope you are finding the site informative and helpful. I want to help you in your fitness journey. The purpose of this blog is to provide useful information. Every post will be a based on the latest scientific evidence available and will be pertaining to the field of exercise science. Topics will include exercise technique, exercise philosophy, nutrition, physiology, exercise trends, human movement dysfunction, and many other things. Feel free to e