This information was taken from Alwyn Cosgrove. To find an article that he was written on this topic go here

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Or does it?

Is there a way to make our food taste good and be healthy?

There definitely is!

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My goal was to go to a place that had great food and that I could get my fill.

I love oriental food! Give me Chinese, Japanese, etc. food any day.

So we found this buffet that had everything I wanted.

Sushi (if you have ever trained with me, you know how much I LOVE sushi), noodles, rice, fish, and chicken in every kind that you would want.

My mouth was watering as we walked in the door, the smell was amazing.

Right away I went to the sushi, of course.

It was set up so that the sushi was out and ready to grab, and grab I did.

I loaded my plate up…but only modestly because there was so many other things that I wanted to eat while we were there.

I went back to my seat… already drooling over what was to come.

The first bite went in…

And came out just as quick!

The rice was dry! The fish was dry! It was disgusting!

I analyzed the rest on my plate.

All of them looked like they had been sitting out in the Sahara for the last week.

I don’t know why I didn’t notice it when I first grabbed them. So don’t ask!

I went to analyze the rest of the food in the restaurant, and honestly, I don’t think they cleaned out the food trays from the week prior.

This place definitely did not satisfy me.

This brings me to my point. My goal was to go to a place that had GREAT food and that I could get my fill.

This place met one of my criteria…

I could eat all I wanted, but it wasn’t great. This leads me to the video.

Watch and see what I have to say about your fitness and performance goals.

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When doing this exercise remember to keep a straight line from your knee to you shoulder.

If you feel anything in your low back, either contract your abdominals harder or go to a larger ball.

Equipment Needed:

1. Stability Ball
2. Exercise Mat

Go ahead and take a look at what he has to say, especially about food cravings and boosting your metabolism.

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I have a lot of ideas of what to talk about, but are they what you really need?

I want to know what your biggest questions are. What do you want me to talk about?

Everyone has something different.

I like to go and visit a group of old friends from time to time, and at every visit I sit and talk with someone about there deepest questions about training for their goals.

So what are your goals and biggest set backs?

Is your goal to jump higher, run faster, lose weight, gain muscle, perform better, feel better, etc?

Is your biggest set back pain/injury, self doubt, nutrition, exercise programming, etc?

Ask your questions in the comment box below.

I may answer them right away.

I may write a blog post to answer, or I may write an article to answer it.

I want my athletes to be the best so I want to give them the best information.

At least once a week one of my clients will ask me about a new supplement that they heard about, that will make them stronger faster than anything else, or that will improve recovery, or help them sleep, etc.

I want to make sure they are getting something that is legitimate a really going to help them.

I will be honest, I am not a big fan of supplements, I don’t recommend very many, and the ones I do, I know work very well.

But I received a very interesting email the other day. It was so good that I felt it would be important for everyone to know about.

Especially if you are an athlete that is competing at a very high level, or you want to compete at a high level, this article is a must read.

Here is the link Risk of Tainted Supplements

I was shocked at the number of tainted supplements that they have found.

I made sure that the supplements I recommend have been certified by both the NSF and the HFL.

So you can trust the supplements that I recommend.

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The other day I was watching a yoga class. The instructor was having the class do the pose in the picture. Unfortunately the picture doesn’t illustrate what I saw very well.

Most of the class members where doing ok, the instructor was not. The instructor had her hips bent a little but a lot of range of motion in her low back.

This is a classic example of “relative flexibility”. What is relative flexibility? 

Relative flexibility comes for Shirley Sahrmann, a physical therapist, and author of “Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes”; she uses the term to describe how the body achieves a particular movement using the relative flexibility available at a series of joints. 

She believes that in order for the body to achieve a particular range of motion, it will move through the point of least resistance, or area of greatest relative flexibility.
So what does this exactly mean? If you notice the picture of the women stretching her hip flexors, I have two arrows. The red arrow is trying to point out that her hip is not completely straight, it is still flexed. 

The white arrow is showing how she is extending her spine.

The Psoas muscle is the main muscle that she is trying to stretch. In the picture to the right you see the Psoas. You will notice that it connects to the front of the spine. So if it is pulled it will pull the spine forward, causing the spine to extend.

That is exactly what the woman in the picture is doing. She may be stretching the Psoas, but according to Sahrmann she is going to produce more range of motion in the low back before she produces more range of motion in her Psoas. 

This man is doing the hip flexor stretch correctly. His back is nice and flat and his hip is fully extended. He will get a better stretch this way and protect his low back. 

Too much range of motion in the low back will lead to low back pain. 

So the point that I want to make about stretching for flexibility is to make sure that you are stretching the intended joint and muscle. If you aren’t you might be setting yourself up for injury.