3 Gym Exercises to Avoid if You Have Shoulder Pain

This weeks blog post is inspired by a question I get frequently. “What exercises should I avoid for my shoulder?” Shoulder injuries are extremely prevalent in an athletic population. I would bet everyone knows someone who deals with chronic shoulder pain. Often times, the exercises we are doing can aggravate that condition making it worse,…

Improve Your Posture and Prevent Injury

Perhaps now more than ever people are aware of their posture and the ill effects it may have on their health. And for a good reason; recent research has suggested that the effects of poor posture are shortening our life span! In the short term, posture can  wreak havoc on our musculoskeletal system. The classic…

Fix Your Posture – Part 2

In last week’s post I discussed the beginning stages of a “postural syndrome” that occurs due to many of our sedentary lifestyles. I addressed the upper trapezius, and levator scapulae muscles which become increasingly tight in many of us pulling our shoulders forward creating that “slumped” postural appearance and forward head carriage (see below.) It is…