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Active Living: January 2009
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Keeping you in the game of life. Thursday, January 22, 2009. Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing - Using Yoga to improve Winter Sport Performance. Last winter I wrote an article in Impact Magazine. About using yoga to train for our fave winter sport. Surely, ancient yogis silently meditating in the Himalayan Mountains weren’t visualizing their next great ski run down those peaks. But if they did, they would have had the physical foundations to be great performers. Connecting with the Core. Whether we want ...
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Active Living: Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing - Using Yoga to improve Winter Sport Performance
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Keeping you in the game of life. Thursday, January 22, 2009. Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing - Using Yoga to improve Winter Sport Performance. Last winter I wrote an article in Impact Magazine. About using yoga to train for our fave winter sport. Surely, ancient yogis silently meditating in the Himalayan Mountains weren’t visualizing their next great ski run down those peaks. But if they did, they would have had the physical foundations to be great performers. Connecting with the Core. Whether we want ...
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Active Living: June 2008
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Keeping you in the game of life. Sunday, June 15, 2008. Stay Active: Preventing Golf Injuries. The lure of the golf course is strong. On a sunny day, who can resist the call of freshly mowed greens? By the year 2020, the World Golf Foundation expects there to be 55 million participants in the game of golf. Unfortunately, low back pain is one of the most common golf related symptoms, comprising up to 50% of all complaints. So how can you prevent yourself from becoming another statistic? 3 Prepare your body.
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Active Living: July 2008
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Keeping you in the game of life. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. Get Active: Healthy Cycling - Bike Fit. With gas prices high, and the summer weather here, more and more people are choosing to cycle as their main means of transportation. It is important that you get your bike set up right to minimize injury, and mazimize power output to make those hills a little easier. Here are a few simple tips to remember when setting up your bike. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Robin is a chiropractor and yo...
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Active Living: September 2008
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Keeping you in the game of life. Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Get Active / Stay Active : Yoga improves balance and strength. Yoga as steadiness training: effects on motor variability in young adults. J Strength Cond Res. 2008 Sep;22(5):1659-69. Yoga has been recently studied and shown to improve leg strength, leg muscle control, and balance in young adults. Over an 8 week program of Bikram (hot power) yoga maximum voluntary contraction of the elbow flexor and knee extnesor. Links to this post. Press into...
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Active Living: Stay Active: Avoiding Yoga Injuries
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Keeping you in the game of life. Friday, August 1, 2008. Stay Active: Avoiding Yoga Injuries. The four keys to keeping you on the mat. Injuries happen for 3 major reasons: we go past our body’s physiological limits, we succumb to a repetitive strain injury, or our body’s asymmetries get the best of us. We can prevent injury with four key points:. 1 Honour our old injuries. 2 Warm up and cool down. 3 Cross train our yoga. Try a different style of yoga every now and then. Not only is it mentally stimul...
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Active Living: Get Active - Older people can prevent heart flutters with light exercise
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Keeping you in the game of life. Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Get Active - Older people can prevent heart flutters with light exercise. A recent study in Circulation Journal found that adults over the age of 65 can prevent atrial fibrillation - an irregular heart rythm- by light exercise. Pace also played a role. People who walked at 3-5 kilometere per hour had a lower risk that those who walked more slowly. Interestingly, high intensity exercise didn't lower the risk of atrial fibrillation. Get Active - ...
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Active Living: May 2008
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Keeping you in the game of life. Thursday, May 29, 2008. Get Active: Bike to Work Week. It's Bike To Work Week in Vancouver from May 26 - June 1. There will be events all over the city encouraging you and giving you the tools to bike to work. Commuting to work in an active way, whether it's walking, biking, or rollerblading, is a great way to get active. 3 Check the weather! 4 Find a walk-pool buddy. Maybe an office mate or spouse wants to walk commute too. This keeps you committed to your active...The V...
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Active Living: Stay Active: The Five Stretches Every Runner Should Know
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Keeping you in the game of life. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Stay Active: The Five Stretches Every Runner Should Know. The 5 Stretches Every Runner Should Know. Only stretch when you are warm - either after your run or after a warm up of 5-10 minutes. Hold each stretch for at. Least thirty seconds, and always stretch both sides.*. To stretch the calf muscles (gastrocnemius, soleus, tibialis posterior, flexor hallucis, and flexor digitorum), go to a. Flexors, we may have limitations in the length of ou...
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Active Living: October 2008
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Keeping you in the game of life. Monday, October 20, 2008. Stay Active: Preventing Sports Injuries This Winter. As fall slowly turns to winter we start looking north to the peaks to see how much white is appearing, hop. Ing for our first ski run. Some of us return indoors revisiting our favorite spin class or yoga teacher. Whichever activity you choose to stay healthy, happy, and fit this winter, there are key things you can do to prevent injury. Warm Up and Cool Down. Love it or hate it, stretching can ...
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