Health Blog Category: Exercise
How Physical Therapy Can Help Treat Weightlifting Injuries
Recovery can be challenging, but we’ll have you back to beating those PRs in no time!
Were you going hard in the gym, trying to beat your personal best–only for a sharp, shooting pain to suddenly radiate through your back, shoulder, and knee? Injuries happen, even if you try to use perfect form every time. Fortunately, the physical therapists at The Fitness LAB can help get you back in the weight room.
Read full blogDo You Want To Lose Weight? Interval Training Can Help You Get There!
Exercising at a constant rate simply doesn’t produce the same results as interval training. Many people work out for an hour or more every day, several days a week, with little to show for it.
While interval training has been around for a while, it has recently received a lot of attention for its ability to increase fat loss.
Do you want to better understand what interval training is, why it works, and how you can incorporate it into your favorite exercise routine?
Read full blogAchieve Your Physical Goals With Blood Flow Restriction
If you’ve recently seen someone weightlifting with bands wrapped around their biceps, they’re probably experimenting with Blood Flow Restriction Training, or BFR, which can help to achieve your physical goals.
The goal of BFR is to keep arterial blood flowing to muscles while preventing venous blood from returning. Wrapping, banding, or cuffing the leg or arm while exercising is a type of exercise known as occlusion training.
This training plan is beneficial because it can induce muscle adaptations at much lower weights.
Read full blogHow Your Shoes May be Causing You Pain and Limiting Your Abilities!
From weekend warriors to professional athletes, those of us concerned with maintaining a high level of fitness rely on a strong set of core muscles to stabilize the body and allow us to perform at our best. Athletes are attempting to improve their form in order to perform this critical activity more effectively. This means keeping the hips at or below knee level, minimizing forward lean, and keeping the thighs close to horizontal. What happens to the feet is debatable.
Read full blogOptimize Your Athletic Performance and Reduce Recovery Time with Therapeutic Massage
If you are an athlete, you likely already understand the importance of maintaining good health, especially when competing in the sport you love. But did you know that working with an experienced physical therapist can hugely improve your athletic performance, and overall health, and reduce recovery time greatly?
When it comes to helping athletes heal from painful injuries, many physical therapists rely on a technique known as therapeutic massage.
If you’re an athlete whose aches and pains suggest something is missing from your cool-down routine, contact one of our Colorado physical therapy clinics located in Highlands Ranch, Greenwood Village, Parker, or Rino today to learn about our customizable treatment plans.
Read full blogHow Anti-Gravity Treadmills Can Help With Injury Recovery in Distance Runners
So maybe we aren’t in flying cars or living on the moon just yet, but there’s no denying that the future of technology has certainly arrived. Alter G’s antigravity treadmill provides a way to mimic the reduction of gravity and its effects on the body without requiring you to make a trip to the moon!
Alter G’s antigravity treadmill approach is proving to be an incredibly impactful piece of technology that can be used in a variety of use cases, ranging from competitive distance runners with complex training plans, to those recovering from an injury or surgery.
Read full blogAre You Squatting Correctly? Find Out the Proper Form!
Squats are a common way to tone the legs and glutes while simultaneously toning the arms with added weights. There are some common rumors that float around about squats – “they’re bad for the knees,” “doing too many will create too much bulk,” “the weights are hard on the wrists,” etc. However, it is time we put these rumors to rest.
When performed correctly, squats are completely safe and they can provide some of the best physical results.
Read full blogYou Can Shed Those Extra Pounds with Interval Training
We Can Help You Reach Your Weight Goals!
Exercising at a constant rate will not produce the same results as interval training. Many people work out for an hour or more every day, several days a week, with little to show for it. While interval training has been around for a while, it has recently gained popularity as a way to reach weight loss goals and lose those extra pounds.
The following information explains what interval training is, why it works, and how you can incorporate it into your favorite exercise routine.
Read full blogNot a Fan of Cardio? No Worries! These 3 Tips Will Help You Get Moving
We all know that cardio takes time. In fact, one of the most common complaints we hear from patients who come to us for physical therapy exercises is that there simply isn’t enough time in their busy days to complete cardio workouts. Other times, whether there’s a time constraint or not, many people report a lack of self-motivation simply because they can’t stand the thought of doing cardio.
Luckily, a physical therapist can help you incorporate cardio into your exercise routine in ways that you may actually find fun – or, at least more bearable.
Read full blogGet More Out of Your Exercises with Blood Flow Restriction
Blood Flow Restriction Can Decrease Recovery Times and Improve Physical Performance Overall!
If you’ve been to the gym recently and noticed someone weightlifting with bands wrapped around their biceps, they’re probably experimenting with Blood Flow Restriction Training BFR.
The goal of BFR Training is to keep arterial blood flowing to certain muscles while preventing venous blood to return. This type of training, also known as occlusion training, entails wrapping, bandaging, or cuffing a leg or arm while exercising.
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