Flexibility is important for everyone from the sedentary to the Olympic athlete. It is very relative to a person's needs and life situations. Flexibility primarily refers to joint mobility and how it is affected by muscles, tendons and ligaments. Some fitness arenas tend to overemphasize stretching to the point that functional strength is lost. A … Continue reading Flexibility
Category: Movement
Compound vs. Single Joint Exercises
In order to maximize the benefit of resistance training it is important to first choose exercises that give you the most overall benefit. Compound exercises refer to the involvement of more than one joint per movement and all muscles in between making them more functional, while Single Joint exercises do as the name implies. For … Continue reading Compound vs. Single Joint Exercises
Dr. George Tabares 