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Since the advent of trail running more runners appear to be coming down with ankle sprains and twists. To remedy the situation many are now wearing ankle straps. However, doing this may also exacerbate the problem. When you wear ankle straps, the muscles do not function to hold the foot in place or to enable […]

Most athletes involved in training and conditioning, work the major body parts and actions. Most often this involves the large muscles of the body. Very little if any attention is given to the fingers and hands which are probably used more than any other body part in almost all sports. This is somewhat surprising since

Of all the common injuries that athletes experience the most frequently occurring ones are to the fingers or hand. In spite of this athletes, which includes recreational, scholastic, collegiate and professional athletes, as a rule, do not practice any finger strengthening exercises. But yet we hear of finger injuries on a regular basis.   For

Keeping a muscle under contraction for long periods of time leads to residual tension in the muscle after the workout. The sign of a healthy muscle is one that can contract strongly and then relax as completely and as quickly as possible.   Note that the normal state of the musculature should be relaxed with

Before you can answer what is the best exercise to develop the lats (latissimus dorsi muscle), you must first determine whether it is the upper or the lower portion of the muscle that you wish to target. No one exercise hits both sections equally in one exercise.   For example, a wide-grip pull-up or pull-down