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Bryan Fass - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Bryan Fass, BA, ATCL, CSCS, NREMT-P
Bryan Fass holds a bachelors in sports medicine, is a Certified / Licensed Athletic Trainer, Nationally Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Nationally Registered Paramedic. Bryan is also a highly skilled soft tissue and Myofascial Release therapist, And has over 10 years of experience in clinical and fitness settings. Specialties in Spine and postural re-education.
Bryan is available for speaking and consulting on numerous topics.
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- Machines VS Free Weights II
[Health-and-Fitness:Build-Muscle] Machines are bad in sports and life for that matter. If you are sitting on your butt or laying flat on your back you lost, so why do we insist on exercising that way? Life moves so we better learn to exercise that way. Try performing your current exercise routine standing.
- Public Safety Fitness
[Health-and-Fitness] In the profession of public safety, Fire-Police-EMS, there lies a strange disparity between fitness/ wellness and proactive injury prevention. In my 8 plus years on the street as a Paramedic and 14 plus years of clinical sports medicine / Athletic Training I have seen countless friends and co-workers injured from activities that should have never caused injury, and have witnessed responders performing exercises that will cause injury. There is a strange 'old school' like mentality that prevails in our profession.
- Not All Personal Trainers Are Created Equal
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] In the medical / scientific world we test and evaluate. If we can not test all we are doing is guessing, I personally do not like to guess, and I would assume that you would rather not pay for a guess. The unfortunate fact is that most 'professional' trainers never test, they sure get you money in a hurry though!
- 5 Fitness Truths
[Health-and-Fitness] Over the past 15 years I have seen a lot of gimmicks and tricks in the fitness industry. The amount of misinformation that floats around out there is scary. The flashy concepts, that have no roots in exercise science, are market to us by the pretty people.
- Is Your Facility Ready for an Emergency?
[Business:Management] Is your gym or health club ready for a fitness emergency? It will happen, will you be prepared to act and follow your pre-planed emergency action plan? Is your staff current in CPR/First Aid, do they know what advice to give, or not give, when confronted with a common fitness club medical emergency?
- The Greatest Myths in Fitness
[Health-and-Fitness] In every industry there lie deep dark secrets. Some are minor and inconsequential while others are scary and have wide ranging consequences. I have said in many of my past articles that the most dangerous thing possible is knowing what you know, but that you know wrong. The fitness and rehabilitation industry is no different.
- The Do's and Do Not's of Exercise
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There are many ways to exercise safely and efficiently in the gym and at home. Yet many people continue to make the same common errors in technique, approach application of science.
- Neck Pain: A Bowling Ball on Your Shoulders
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] Many people that enter our facilities have at some time or currently are experiencing neck pain and or headaches. Todays sedentary lifestyle, computers, phones, travel all force the head and shoulders forward of the bodies center of gravity.
- New Years Resolution Fitness Emergency
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] As the fitness centers and gyms fill up this time of year with folks eager to meet their New Year goals there lurks an ominous foe. Many people jump into exercise with gusto and never take into account existing medical issues, medication side effects, and 'old injuries.'
- "Back" to Basics-Healthy Spine
[Health-and-Fitness:Back-Pain] What causes such a prevalence of lower back conditions? The answer may surprise you. Continuing research shows that most people do not have weak backs, but share in the same problems:
1) weak or inhibited lower abdominals
2) over-dominant hip flexors (too strong)
3) tight and weak lateral hip muscles
4) weak and inhibited gluteal muscles.
Weak abdominal, pelvic, hip and gluteal muscles lack the endurance to do their job throughout the day.
- Golfers Elbow
[Health-and-Fitness] The medial epicondyle is the ‘funny’ bone on the inside of the elbow. Medial epicondylitis, or "golfer’s elbow", is similar to the more common lateral epicondylitis (“tennis elbow”) in many respects.
- Preventing Health Club Emergencies
[Health-and-Fitness] How many times have you been in the local gym and seen someone pull out of an exercise hurt, limp off the treadmill or go through such a horrific workout that they are out of the gym for a week. Ever wonder why the people advertising inside the gym are doctors and chiropractors. The odds are stacked against you, it is very likely that you will have an injury while exercising. In my past articles I have alluded in depth the how’s and why’s of exercise induced injuries. Please reference those articles so you understand how you are hurting yourself, and how to remedy the situation.
- Emergency Action Plan
[Health-and-Fitness] Every fitness facility should have a well thought out and practiced emergency plan in place. Emergencies happen without warning, no two are ever alike and waiting until they happen leaves you and your facility open to liability.
- Stabilizing the Stabilizers
[Health-and-Fitness] One of the most common questions I get regarding back pain and strength training is what is the best exercise to strengthen the back?. My answer is often confusing, the best exercise is time.
- When Exercising Right Looks Wrong III (Back)
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Back exercise is one of the scariest groups of improper exercise concepts. The best way to achieve a strong back is to build strong abs and lumbar muscles with high endurance and coordination. The back was never designed to be strong, it was designed to have high muscular endurance and lots of help from the abdominal wall and hips.
- When Exercising Right Looks Wrong II
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] So what is right and what is wrong?. It depends on what you are training for and your personal fitness and wellness goals. An athlete should almost never train sitting down. Sports are played standing, involve balance, agility, speed and multi-joint movements. There is no basis for training sitting down for a non athlete either. We spend too much of our lives sitting in the car at the computer and on the phone. Yet we go to the gym and contort ourselves into a machine that basically forces us back into a rounded seated posture and now forces us to move according to the machine, not according to how your body wants to move
- Precision Abdominal Training
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] In my previous articles I alluded to the fact that most machines do not work, in fact they actually can increase the risk of injury. So what are the best safest exercises for the abs that also strengthen the core and build spine stability? Believe me when I tell you that to perform these safe and efficient exercises that activate the core, abdominal and spinal muscles no equipment is required, all you need is your body and the floor.
- When Exercising Right Looks Wrong
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] There is so much miss-information and so many accepted ways to do things, the wrong way, that when you see people doing the proper exercises it looks wrong to you.
- Exercise: When You Don't Know That You Don't Know
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] In the fitness industry there are very few checks and balances. Fewer regulations and no licensure for fitness trainers. What do you do when your trainer does not know that they do not know.
- Is Stronger Really Better
[Health-and-Fitness] When it comes to general fitness and weight loss, stronger is not better. What I mean is that endurance or time, has been shown more effective at stimulating weight loss and increasing the ability of muscles to stabilize.
- Machines vs Free Weights
[Health-and-Fitness:Fitness-Equipment] What is the best machine for me? What is the best machine for this or that body part? The answer that I always give is none. With the exception of a few specialized pieces of functional equipment, machines in your gym or home are designed to fit the mass population...
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