Words you need to know: Pronation: when your foot rolls inward towards body Supination: when your foot rolls outward away from body
Most everyone’s foot pronates. It’s okay if your foot slightly pronates. Pronating is how the body absorbs shock.
Over pronating is when you need to become worried. Over pronation can start a chain reaction up your body, starting at the foot, that will discomfort and strain muscles and tendons all the way up to your lower back. So how do we fix this?
By knowing your feet!
Here is a basic trick that will get you to know your feet better. Take off your shoes and socks. Sit down. While watching the arch (the inside of your feet) stand up. What did you see?
Doesn’t flatten= Neutral Shoes
Flatten= Stability Shoes
Is flat the whole time or rolls out= Motion Control Shoes
Here are some options of shoes to get. Pictures are of the women’s version of each shoe but they are made in a men’s version as well, with the same name.
Neutral
Brooks GlycerinStability
Brooks Trance
Brooks AdrenalineMotion Control
Brooks ArielThanks to Brooks for hooking it up. Click here and get free shipping on any shoe you buy!
Ingredients
8 scoops chocolate Protein Powder (any kind works)
1 cup Oatmeal
1/3 cup Natural Peanut Butter
3 Tbsp Honey
1/2 cup 1% Milk
3 tbsp crushed Peanuts
3 tbsp crushed chocolate chips Directions
1. Mix together the protein powder, oatmeal, peanut butter, honey and milk.
2. Flatten mixture on a cookie tray.
3. Sprinkle peanut and chocolate chips on top
4. Lets cool in refrigerator for 30 min
5. Slice into bars
Makes 6-8 Bars
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So last week I got text message from my father asking me about a bracelet that he had just received as a Christmas gift. Before he had even sent me the picture I knew what bracelet it was. POWER BALANCE!!! Sounds pretty intense, doesn’t it. I have seen these bracelets around for a while now, but recently have seen them more and more.
Last year when I first noticed these things, I had a sales person give me a demo showing how they work. The demo went like this. The sales person made me make a “T” with my arms and then stand on one foot. I felt pretty good and balanced. The sales person then said they were going to put force on one arm and see how balanced I was. Within a second I had stumbled. They then had me put on the bracelet and get in the one legged “T” position. This time when force was added to the arm I stayed up longer. WOW MAGIC!!!
Not at all! I was actually very skeptical of the whole thing. The sales person claimed that the bracelet was powered with magnets and electrons that work with the electrons in your body to balance you out. If the electrons on my body are moving around shouldn’t I feel something when I put the bracelet on? I didn’t even feel a tingle. I feel more trying to wake my leg up when it falls asleep.
I did some more research and found this study done by the American Council on Exercise. Click here for the direct link to report. If you don’t want to read the study here’s the cliff notes.
What ACE did was got 42 athletes together and ran them through the 4 “demos” done by the sales people. They did each demo two times, once with the balance bracelet and once with a placebo “dummy” bracelet. During the two tests they never knew which bracelet they were wearing. Sometimes the balance bracelet was the first on, sometimes it was the second. Following me?
So what did they find out? THE BRACELETS ARE GARBAGE!!! The test shows that the test subjects always improved the second time they did the test. No matter if they had the balance bracelet or the fake bracelet.
Feel cheated and lied to? You should. It’s such a scam that the Australian government recently took Power Balance to court because the company has no scientific evidence to back their claims. As a result, the Australian manufacturer of Power Balance bracelets had to make a public apology and admit that there is zero scientific backing to their bracelets. In the United States, there are several class action suits that have been filed against the company citing false advertising and unfair business practices.
Final Conclusion: SCAM! DON’T BUY!
Did you buy a bracelet? Did this review help? Let us know in the comments box.
Watch the video below to see the test done by ACE.
Happy New Year! Hopefully you are waking up not to tired from last night’s events. I am not much of a party guy; to be honest I was in bed at ten o’clock last night! The one thing I go love about New Years is the resolutions. It is a great time to start fresh, whatever your resolution may be. The fall is that many people don’t even last the first month. I find the main reason is accountability. They tell themselves that they are going to work out more, stop smoking, or read more often. Yet sense no one else knows, no one can encourage them when they start to stubble. So that is why here and right now I am publicly stating me personal and business goals/resolutions for 2012.
Personal Manage Time – I hope to rabbit trait on the internet less. There’s a lot of cool stuff out on the web, but it doesn’t mean I need to see all of it Work Out More – I know, I know, I am a trainer I should work out all the time. But sense starting Five 17 Fitness time is a hard thing to come by. Run More – I have never been a runner. I was happy with a 12 min mile. I would like to be able to run a 5k at an under 10 min mile pace. Read More – My DVR is full of pointless stuff, but my kindle is packed with knowledge. Kindle you are going to be my new best friend. Daily Time for God – I need to focus on my relationship just as much I focus on helping others relationships grow.
Business Blog More – I have so many topics to talk about; sometimes I just get overwhelmed and don’t write a thing. Not this year. Become Full Time – I want to change people’s lives for a living. Have at Least 3 Products for Sell Online – a good one is coming soon!
I know you probably have a resolution or four, yourself. Here are my two tip for making resolutions.
1. MAKE THEM REALISTIC! dont set yourself up for failure. start small and when your succeed in a month make a new goal.
2. Tell someone about your goals. This way they can help you and hold you to them. Go to the Five 17 Fitness Fan Page and post your resolutions there so we can all keep each other accountable.
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Stability
Motion Control
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