by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2013 | Fitness
The rotator cuff muscles hold the head of the long bone of your upper arm tightly in the socket of your shoulder. Sports that require moving the arm over the head repeatedly can cause tearing and swelling of the tendons of these muscles. Baseball pitchers, swimmers,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2013 | Fitness
Good treadmills have a lever that raises the front end to simulate running up hills, because running on level ground does not do much to strengthen your upper leg muscles. Running strengthens primarily your lower leg muscles. You stress your upper leg muscles...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2013 | Fitness
When former NBA player Kent Benson arrived at the University of Indiana he could jump only nine inches off the ground. That’s an embarrassing jump for a seven-foot All- American. One year later, he was able to jump three times that high because he had a good...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 11, 2013 | Fitness
Will training for a triathalon make you a better cyclist? World-class triathletes are slower runners, swimmers and cyclists than athletes who compete in only one sport. A study from the University of Toulon-Var in France shows that swimming before cycling slows you...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 10, 2013 | Fitness
How can sled dogs run more than 100 miles a day for weeks on end, while humans couldn’t possibly recover from such abuse of their muscles? A study from Ohio State University shows why (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, August 2005). How long you can...
