Warm-up Routine For Golfers - Part II
September 11, 2008
In the previous article, we looked at 6 different warm-up exercises for golfers designed by one of Australia’s respected physiotherapist, Dr Barbara Hungerford. Here we’ll show you the remaining 6 warm-up exercises designed and recommended by Dr Barbara Hungerford. Read more
Confused Over Core
July 12, 2008
If you suffer from back pain, you would have likely been told that exercises are good for you and specifically those that strengthen your core. Unfortunately, these days it is harder to get by a week without reading somewhere in the newspapers, health or fitness magazines, hearing in the gym about core strength, core conditioning and core stability or about some new fitness equipment.
It can all be rather confusing. So, if you are suffering from back pain, what sort of core exercises should you be doing?
What is core?
Before we start discussing which core exercises are relevant for back pain sufferers, what exactly do we mean by the ‘core’ muscles?
The core area relevant for low back pain is the trunk region below your ribs to your pelvis. On this point, both physiotherapists and fitness instructors generally agree.
Its Good Business To Sit Up Straight
July 5, 2008
Improving office productivity is no longer only purview of HR managers, Operations managers or even CEOs. Today governments are getting in on the act as the search for greater productivity goes down the road of global outsourcing directly affecting national GDP figures. Eschewing hi-tech solutions and management productivity tools such as ‘six-sigma’, lets revisit a simple but effective age-old remedy – good posture.
Despite the advent to mobile computing and the rise of the ‘road-warrior’ class, 67% of office workers are more tied to their desk than they were two-years ago according to a new research commissioned by NEC-Mitsubishi.
Glutes and Piriformis Stretch
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