Essential Lower Body Training for All Athletes

Essential Lower Body Training for Athletes

One of the biggest mistakes you’ll see in a strength program designed for athletes (or anyone for that matter) is the exclusion on unilateral lower body work. Of course the foundational compound movements like the bench, squat, deadlift, military press, power clean & press, pull-ups, etc. ha

Written on June 13, 2010 | Posted in Us Diet Club Articles | No Comment

Teaching an Active Lifestyle from an Early Age

There are many temptations that keep us inside and sitting for long periods of time. We spend our evenings watching TV, catching up on Facebook, playing video games, board games, or eating long dinners with those we love. Individually, these things are not negative to our well being. However, anything taken to an extreme will have a negative effect on our lives and possibly the lives of our children. What do your children see you do on a regular basis? Are you encouraging a healthy active lifestyle?

When I was a child, the neighborhoods were buzzing with children riding bikes, playing ball in the front yard, throwing a football with dad, or playing cops and robbers.

Written on June 13, 2010 | Posted in Diet Club Consultations | No Comment

Brain Volume Lost to Anorexia Reversible

“Anorexia nervosa wreaks havoc on many different parts of the body, including the brain,” study author Christina Roberto, of Yale University, said in a news release. “In our study, we measured brain volume deficits among underweight patients with the illness to evaluate if the decline is reversible through short-term weight restoration.”

Working out of the Columbia University Center for Eating Disorders in New York City, Roberto and her colleagues conducted MRI scans of the brains of 32 adult female inpatients diagnosed with anorexia, as well as 21 healthy women.

Anorexia patients were found to have less brain volume than healthy women, and those how had battled the psychiatric disorder the longest had the greatest gray volume deficit.

“The good news is that when women with anorexia nervosa received treatment at a specialized eating disorders inpatient unit at Columbia University, which helped them gain to a normal weight, the deficits in brain volume began to reverse over the course of only several weeks of weight gain,” said Roberto.