CEC Articles
Written by NFPT Staff Writer
After spending countless hours in the gym lifting weights and doing aerobics, how will you know when you're physically fit? Many of your clients will tell you they just want to get fit. Therefore, it is important to know just what constitutes a general state of physical fitness.
Written by NFPT Staff Writer
The other day I was watching the evening news with one of my roommates while we waited for the baseball playoffs to begin. As we half-heartedly watched a special news presentation on drug use among America's youth, my roommate asked a question which is all too commonly asked by many: "Why do they do drugs?" "Why would anyone ever stay on drugs when these synthetic chemicals are actively destroying their lives and the lives of others right before their eyes?"
Written by Chris Gellert
Many sports, such as soccer, basketball and football involve jumping, cutting and pivoting maneuvers. These motions place stress and demands on the ligaments that support the knee. One of the most common injured ligaments is the anterior cruciate ligament(ACL).
Written by NFPT Staff Writer
While we are all familiar with aerobic activity, defined in the early 1970s by Dr. Kenneth Cooper as activity during which the cardiorespiratory system provides enough oxygen for muscular effort, most of us associate anaerobic activity with that very hard effort we do during intervals. The fact is that each non-sequential muscular effort, such as turning your head, entails some measure of energy production in the absence of oxygen, qualifying it as anaerobic.
Written by Phil Fink
As the fitness industry grows in popularity and importance, it is of the utmost importance that we as fitness professionals continue to develop a growing knowledge of the exercise sciences to communicate effectively with the established health professions and sciences on "common ground". The following article, while at times technical, provides an integral part of that knowledge base necessary to facilitate such communication.
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