1. U/L Arm Raise on Rockerboard Stand on a rockerboard with your feet hip width apart and toes facing forward. Engage your core by drawing your belly button to your spine, and find your balance on the board. Stand straight and draw your shoulder blades down your back. Raise one arm up over your head while maintaining your core support. … Read More
A Runner’s Guide to New York City
After 6pm on summer weekdays, walking down the street also means jumping out of the way for the multitude of runners taking advantage of the cool evenings. For many, running is a lifestyle. You know your local running shop, the best trails, and the various running groups. It is a way to clear your head and get the exercise your … Read More
8 Benefits of Yoga
Yoga is a therapeutic practice used by people for centuries. It has restorative powers that can cure body aches and pains, as well as clear the mind. There have been many studies that show it can help with depression and anxiety. To say the least, yoga has many benefits and we’ve put together a list of these benefits below. 1. … Read More
5 Reminders the 2016 USA Olympic Swimming Team Reminded Us About Competing
While Olympic athletes are far from average, they still undergo body pain and injury. Each Olympic team is allowed a certain number of medical staff and said medical staff were hired to help maintain the wellbeing of the athlete. So we’ve put together a list of tips for your own recovery and success during competition based off the strategies of … Read More
4 Ways Foam Rolling Will Save Your Muscles
Whether you are an assiduous gym-goer, a once-a-month runner or recovering from an injury, you are going to have sore muscles at some point. You stretch post workout, and do your exercises but sometimes it doesn’t ease the pain. A foam roller is an inexpensive and small miracle worker that helps loosen tight muscles that stretching alone just doesn’t seem … Read More
11 Free Fitness Classes in New York City
Updated June 2018! Did you know that there are hundreds of free fitness classes all over New York? Catering to every intensity these free fitness classes are scattered throughout the day, making them easy to fit into a busy schedule. Below is a cross section of the various free classes available, featuring a little something for everyone. So whether you … Read More
Tips for Creating Nutritious Post-Workout Meals
Sometime this week, you probably went for a run. Maybe it was this morning; maybe it was 3 days ago. However, you might still be feeling the effects. For those of us who do not work out on a regular basis, you’re feeling it even more this morning. There is a chance you even had the unfortunate event of twisting … Read More
Overcoming Injuries at the Olympic Level
As the 2016 Summer Olympics games in Rio are rapidly approaching, the Olympic hopefuls are working their hardest to be prepared for competition. They have been training and mentally preparing for the last four years with dreams to bring home the gold. For some, their dreams are challenged when faced with a difficult injury. Based on a study completed by … Read More
Post ACL Reconstruction
A couple clips from a current patient in February 2015, who had an ACL Reconstruction Surgery in June 2014. He is planning to return to skiing and these are a few of the exercises he has been doing to replicate the stress of skiing variable terrain. NOTE: Correct foot position on landing to a more neutral position and increase hip stabilization … Read More
Returning to Sports Post Injury
Around the globe there are a number of great doctors, physical therapists and trainers who have taken on the task of guiding an athlete back to the field. It’s a difficult task that requires a specific problem list, willingness to follow through and an intuitive nature to train the athlete in the moment. Working with elite athletes comes with the challenge of … Read More