Posts tagged exercise

4 Exercises for Gamers That Promote Optimal Wrist Health

The work week is over and you finally have an entire weekend to devote to all the video games that have come out this fall.  After playing for hours on end, you are hit with an intense, throbbing pain, and it feels like your fingers are going numb.  It dawns on you that somehow in these hours of gaming you may have developed a video game career-ending injury.  Your weekend is ruined and now you are afraid that you will have to hang up the controller and “never game again.”

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You Don’t Have to Be a Gym Rat To Get Fit or Lose Weight

As odd as it may sound coming from a gym rat like myself, I totally understand where she is coming from.

For those that lift heavy weights, they know how empowering it can be, not to mention its numerous health benefits. For some, the gym can be more terrifying than a tornado full of sharks.

When I mention lifting weights to someone new to a workout regiment, sometime I see this weird look of fear in their eyes.  A fear that if they lift weights, they will become some behemoth who eats his/her weight in red meat; a Situation wanna-be who spends six days a week at the gym and only talks about his abs, or a woman who shoots up testosterone and now wins Tom Waits karaoke contests on Saturday night.

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