In these blogs I’ve shared situations where I have erred professionally. My weak defence has been that I didn’t know any better at the time! By delving into and contemplating different areas of research, I’ve been able to reflect on and reinterpret many of my experiences – good and bad, and I’ve shared those with my […]
Closed Chain Exercises Minds 1139 words – estimated reading time: 4 min, 56 sec Full disclosure, this is an ‘I told you so’ blog. Despite my ongoing rants and critiques, I’ve rarely been proven right – sigh!!!. Back in the late 1980s and early 90s most of my work was in exercise rehabilitation. I loved […]
Estimated Reading Time: 3 min, 45 sec With so many in the population struggling to be habitually active, it is timely to reality check some of the contemporary health promoting activities that have proliferated globally. Both the fitness and sport industries enthusiastically beckon people to come join them. Their pitches pale, however, compared to the […]
1104 words: estimated reading time 5 mins 30s. As exercise professionals we are usually pretty enthusiastic about convincing others to share our love of physical activity, exercise and sports – but how much love are we really expecting? I hadn’t really thought too much about this until I recently reviewed an article that got me […]
Locking it up 963 words – estimated reading time: 4mins, 50s. One of the things (and there’s a lot) that really perplexes me with exercise is the range of rules and guidelines that surround exercise and exercise technique. What I’m talking about here are the things that exercise professionals seem to repeat and reinforce automatically […]
Finding and evaluating information. 3090 words (that’s a lot!) : estimated reading time: 15 mins, 27 secs. A guide There are arguably many ways that personal research could be done; I’ve tried to approach this from an exercise professional’s perspective. Hopefully, some or all of this information will be helpful in some way. You may want […]
803 words ~ 4 mins to read I’ve been stretching on a daily basis for over a year now; just 5 minutes and just my hip flexors and hamstrings. I’ve been doing the stretching just to test out the concept of a 5-minute habit – it works by the way! This morning I happened to […]
Since 2006 the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has annually surveyed health and fitness professionals to get their views on exercise trends and fads. There is traditionally some tension between evidence-based innovations and media-driven trends, and so I’ve followed this large international survey with some interest. The list of what’s hot and (by omission) […]
I set up this 10th man blog with the hope that it might appeal to exercise professionals. So, when I contemplate what to write next, I obviously start thinking about exercise professionals which usually takes me off on another tangent – the thing is I’m not really certain what defines an exercise professional! So I […]
In all of the exercise professions, our work is largely based on a theoretical framework that I’ve always known simply as ‘The Principles of Exercise’ (POE). The POE offer us a logical and convenient means of explaining how and why we develop fitness and suggest a rationale for planning and structuring exercise and training programmes. […]