The latest of those newfangled healing therapies, it just may be a coming wave. New movements always make their way into the American Midwest a few years after their embers glow on the coasts; touch therapy is no exception. (more…)
Working out while hurt is very serious business. On one hand, if you don’t work out, muscles quickly soften and become atrophic. On the other hand, without careful selection–often via trial and error–applying resistance to injured tissue (I have a small tear in my right rotator cuff) is asking for a lifetime of soreness. More, it can be a golden-platter delivery to arthritis down the road.
But then again, arthritis is a function of natural lubrication of the joint (FLAX SEED OIL SUPPLEMENTS, PEOPLE! ALL MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE EVERY DAY!!) and of the same muscle-atrophy I mentioned, in that muscle always wraps joints, particularly in the complex articulating joints in the shoulder group. (more…)
Bikram Yoga is very simple. You hardly have to move at all. All you need is a room that’s so clear you can see, but so hot you can barely breathe. (more…)
There’s three distinct sources of water at Hot Springs, AR. Two are cold and one’s hot. The Arlington Hotel, in line with the old 1920’s-1930’s buildings of Bath House Row, reaches down to the hot aquifier. Depending on how far away the 140-degree water enters the above-ground atmosphere, it’s still hot. We reached into a park’s fountain pound well down the hill from a spring source, and found that it was probably 10-degrees hotter than a hot tub only brave people enter, or 115-or-so. (more…)
…is one of those electronically-driven fitness machines that some of America’s gyms have out on the floor. Generally speaking, workouts that contain at least some ‘free weight’ components to them are more effective, because these build balance and engender symmetry well moreso than a machine can.
However, what makes this one an exception to this rule is that it can lure a participant to gradually work up to the extremely difficult pull-up. (more…)
There are bathroom scales and then there are bathroom scales.
The bathroom scale is calibrated the best it can be, but the load plate (if it’s a cheapie) isn’t capable of truism. It’ll vary, especially when it inhabits the steamy enviornment of a small room space with a shower in it. (more…)