If you are an athlete, it is only a matter of time until you experience some type of foot pain.  Every year at the Arnold, out of the over 20,000 competitors, the number one injury we attend to is related to the foot and ankle.  Most of these are chronic problems that exacerbate during competition and training.  There are some simple steps that any athlete can take to remove foot pain.  I encourage you to stop walking or limping around on the problem, stop taking drugs to just mask the pain, make an attempt to learn about the foot and what you can do to fix it.

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Anybody who has been bodybuilding for a while knows the importance that joints have in ones ability to keep training hard. If joints are not operating at their peak, the ability to lift heavy weights and perform certain bodybuilding exercises becomes limited. For instance, for an exercise like the bench press you need healthy shoulders, elbows and wrists. If any of these becomes badly damaged, then there goes your ability to bench press and the quality of your upper body workouts suffers as well. 

Why Do Joint Injuries Occur?

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I am 48 years old, and I have been training with weights for decades. I have always had trouble building my triceps. Almost every exercise that I do to directly work the triceps hurts my elbows. Do you have any advice? (more…)

Positive pressure can really help to accelerate your bodybuilding gains.  Positive pressure can be created by giving yourself a clear deadline by when to achieve your bodybuilding goals. For instance, setting yourself a goal to lose 20 pounds of fat while maintaining, or even increasing, your muscle mass slightly in the next twelve weeks is a great way to create positive pressure.  So for example, joining Lee Labrada’s Lean Body Challenge is a great way to apply positive pressure and at the same time be able to win some incredible prices! (more…)

Over 90 % of all office workers use a personal computer.  In 1997 the work-related musculoskeletal disorders had reached 275,000 cases.  In 2009 that number is expected to reach over 14 million.  Musculoskeletal disorders include; neck pain, tension headaches, lower back pain, and carpal tunnel syndrome, just to name a few.  Women are more likely to outnumber men 3:1 for sustaining a carpal tunnel syndrome.  The affect on the economy is devastating with musculoskeletal disorders accounting for $20 billion in direct cost and over $100 billion related to indirect cost.  These cost represent a sobering statistic that America is sitting more and the effects are devastating. (more…)