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In a recent Runners’ World article, it was brought out that by adjusting your running, you can avoid injury. The author correctly brought out that faulty running is a major cause of injury. Typically, this happens when you try running longer or faster, at which time your running form breaks down, leading to injury. His

Runners are typically told to stretch before beginning their runs to prepare the muscles for running. To do this, they do passive or static stretches. But, doing static stretches, especially to a “cold” muscle, relaxes the muscle and can be injurious. Active stretches, however, activate and warm up the muscle in preparation for action. Because

In an article reported in the FITNESS & SPORTS REVIEW INTERNATIONAL, Mel C. Siff, Ph.D., professor of mechanics at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, brought out that reliance on low impact as the sole form of training may be counterproductive. For example, low impact aerobics, yoga, calinetics, aquarobics and stretch and tone are

According to A.P. Bondarchuk, former world record holder and presently coach of world record holders in the hammer throw, individualization applies to specificity of learning, improving exercise technique, developing the needed physical abilities and planning the workouts for a specific training cycle. In an article published in the FITNESS & SPORTS REVIEW INTERNATIONAL, Bondarchuk states

According to Michael Yessis, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, California State University at Fullerton, as reported in the FITNESS & SPORTS REVIEW INTERNATIONAL, walking, especially power walking, is becoming very popular among bodybuilders and fitness buffs. People who are involved in power walking, in which you walk with good form as fast as possible, are finding that