Langley kinesiologist asks could have Roberto Luongo's groin injury been prevented???

ACK noooooooooooooooooooooo, please stop this nightmare.


OK, I'm a die hard Canucks Fan. And seeing roberto luongo limp off the ice was not fun.



If you have been following hockey this last week or even if you have seen high lights or low lights you will know that VANCOVERS great leader and hope to lead us to the promise land and bring home the cup our captain, Bobby Lou, Louie,(Roberto Luongo) is out with a groin strain. He had a MRI on Sunday and I watched the team win last night in a comeback effort in over time against the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 with Stanford in the net.

He is listed as week to week for now. As I read the Vancouver sun yesterday.........

"Luongo was injured at 4:54 of the first period when he kicked out his left pad to stop Philippe Boucher's point shot, then torqued his groin as he adjusted to the puck being deflected to his right. Luongo, still in obvious pain after the game, said he has never had a groin injury.

His durability is legendary. Luongo has averaged 74 games per season the last four years. He said he wasn't sure if the hectic road schedule and Saturday afternoon start time, which deprived him of a morning skate, contributed to the injury. But he participated in an optional practice Friday and sat out Thursday's win, so he should have been fresh.

"There was pretty much a lot of pain there," Luongo said. "Right away I knew it wasn't good. It's very disappointing, frustrating. We've been playing great as a team and I've been really happy with the way my game has been in the last few weeks. It's really disappointing to have something like this happen."

It could be more than that for the Canucks. It could be devastating." read the article at http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/canucks/story.html?id=4150e5b9-cd6d-4777-ba13-69b0f6d193cf



I Personally know the Canucks Strength and Conditioning coach Roger Takahashi, and I know that between him and the Canucks medical team they will put him back together properly stronger then ever to quote the 6 million dollars man's boss Oscar Goldman " we have the technology we can rebuild him". I find it funny that Roberto is also a 6 million dollar man but I digress.



So the Question is could have his groin injury been prevented. I know that "Taki" does an amazing job on preparing each player to be in top form and preventing injuries or getting into better shape and that the Canucks take every step to insure success. Just look at Wellwood and his weight loss and conditioning since the season began.



It is my belief that even with the best preparation injuries still happen especially when your job is to be doing the splits on the ice for 60 minutes trying to stop a little rubber puck. That being said here are some of the stretches and exercises that I would do to help prevent goalie groin injuries. I will post a video on these by Friday so you can see them.



Stretches and exercises to help prevent groin injuries.

Undulating stretches are a type of dynamic stretch technique designed to open up the Fascial tissue and increase overall flexibility.

1. Glute stretch as a Fascial Stretch Therapist we see many athletes and goalies included that are extremely tight in the Glutes, having a tight but can be a good thing but not when you are trying to decrease groin injuries. The glute are on the opposite side of the hip as the groin therefore if you have tight glutes your groin will not have the same ROM it should have. So we need to stretch these out first to open up the Fascial lines.

• start on the ground in a 4 point position rock side to side. leaning in to the hips.
• next stretch turn over on to your butt place your hands behind you, your knees should be bent and your legs spread apart rock you knees to one side until your knees touch one way then go to the other side repeat 10 times.

2. hip flexor stretches OK glutes are stretched out now for the QL and hip flexors. As these also limit movement.

• start in a lunge position and lean your hip forward until you feel a stretch in the front of your hip. Then lean in towards the side with the bent knee keep moveing slowly like a wave as you make your body flow past the front knee and come back to the start lunge position.

3. modified hockey stretch for the glutes you all know it but here are a few modifications first place you leg that you are stretching on the ground and sit up higher then slowly lean in to wards the ground with your chest and then slowly come back to the top. this will help open the hips up more.

4. Groin stretches. sitting against a wall tuck your feet in towards you and let the groin stretch out

OK SO now you have to come back this week and check out our video on these stretches.

Exercise will be tomorrow.

in health Paul

The Top 5 Fat Loss Myths By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

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There are so many FATLOSS myths out there in "exercise-land" that I was hired by Men's Fitness magazine to write about one myth each month.
After all, by now you've probably heard that if you don't do60-minutes of cardio in your fat burning zone on an empty stomach while Venus is in line with Jupiter, you'll never burn fat.
The problem with myths is that not only are they wrong and give false hope to millions of people trying to LOSE WEIGHT , but they also waste your time and mental effort.
I have also seen these myths used as justification for cheating ona diet, watching countless men and women justify their "treats"because they believe they are on some type of magical exerciseprogram or nutrition plan.
I could go on for days about fitness myths, but I cut my list from30 down to the Top 5 FATLOSS Workout Myths today. I'll save the other 25 for future newsletters.
Myth #1: You have to do cardio first thing in the morning on anempty stomach.
Relax. You don't have to hop on the treadmill at 4:30am everymorning. Let's allow common sense to dictate when and how you exercise.
If you want to work out first thing in the morning, and I know that is the best time for many TT readers, by all means, go ahead and do it. There's nothing magical about this time - although it is often the only time many of day many people have to themselves.
We need to think "outside of the hour" of exercise and realize that calorie burning and fat burning goes on for 24-hours. Forget about the theories and look at the big picture.
It doesn't matter when you exercise - as long as you exerciseintensely and consistently. Focus on relatively high-intensityworkouts to increase your metabolism for as many hours afterexercise as possible. That is best done with interval training andresistance training.
Myth #2: You have to do your cardio in your "fat burning zone".
Again, nonsense.
While you might burn a larger proportion of total calories as fatwhen you exercise in your fat burning zone, you burn fewer calories overall by exercising at such a low intensity.
When you increase your workout intensity and get out of yourso-called "fat burning zone", you burn more total calories, and as a result, more fat.
In addition, the "fat burning zone" training doesn't put"turbulence" on your muscles...so you don't burn many calories in the post-exercise time period. But with interval training, you burn a significant amount of calories for hours after training, andthat leads to more fat loss.
I've worked with hundreds of people that have avoided the fatburning zone while still managing to lose dozens of pounds of fat.The "fat burning zone" is one of the biggest fitness myths of alltime.
Myth #3: You have to do cardio for 20 minutes before you burn fat.
When I hear this, I picture a fat-burning switch in my body thatturns on only after I've been doing "cardio" for 20 minutes. Butwhat if I only exercise for 19 minutes and 59 seconds? Areyou telling me that I won't have burned any fat? That's ridiculous.
What if I did it on an empty stomach in the morning and in mytarget heart rate zone? (read that one sarcastically!)
I'll say it one last time. We need to be more concerned with our24-hour metabolism, not how much fat or even how many calories are burned during the workout.
Myth 4: Drinking ice cold water will help you burn calories andlose fat.Standing in line at the grocery store is a great place to pick upthe latest fat loss myths. You'll also find this one all over theInternet.
This myth often comes along with some calculations showing that by drinking 8 glasses of ice-cold water you can burn 70 calories per day. I don't believe that actually holds true in real life. Regardless, drinking cold water is not going to burn any more fat off your body than drinking room temperature water.
Don't get me wrong, I strongly believe you should drink 12 glasses of water per day, but the temperature of your water won't have any effect on your overall fat loss success.
Myth #5: Adding one pound of muscle will burn 50 extra calories each day.Uh-oh, now I'm cutting down a myth that supports my use of strength training in a fat loss program. But I have an obligation to set the record straight about this extremely prevalent myth (even though I just saw a big name fitness expert perpetuate this myth in a recent article!).
This myth sounds so good. Add a pound ouf muscle, boost yourmetabolism 50 calories. That doesn't seem out of line at all.
But do the math for a guy that puts on 30 pounds of muscle. Does his metabolism really increase by 1500 calories? Absolutely not. For an average guy, that would require his resting metabolism to increase from 2500 calories to 4000 calories per day. How would he be able to keep any of that muscle with a metabolism like that? He'd have to eat like a pig forever. So when you look at the big picture, you can see this little myth start to fall apart.
That's not to say you should stop your strength training, but just don't use this myth as an excuse to cheat on your diet.Bonus Myth: Negative Calorie Foods Cause You to Lose Weight
According to the "experts", a negative calorie food requires more energy to digest than it provides you when you eat it. And included in the negative calorie food list are apples and bananas.
So by this logic, I would actually starve to death if I had nothingto eat but apples (because I would have a net energy loss fromeating a so-called "negative calorie" food).
There is no such thing as a negative calorie food.
It's a shame that people are out there promoting this stuff, andit's too bad that so many people fall for it.
Remember the old phrase, "if it sounds too good to be true, itprobably is."Instead, let the common sense fat loss principles apply. It's going to take consistent effort, working hard at your workouts and with your nutrition to get the results you want.
I guarantee you that Turbulence Training will successfullyguide you to the FATLOSS


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Sincerely,
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langley kinesiologist says : Couture not so perfect but his water was!!

OK this weekend was a packed with fun I had a great weekend of sports, friends and a great time out at my best friend' Mikes 32 birthday.

Saturday I woke up worked on a couple of clients. then picked up my 3 year old son Owen and headed out for a son and dad day at the local pool. I love being active at with Owen and it helps instill how much fun activity is and he love the time we spend doing fun things together . After an hour in the pool we headed home.

I invited over a number of friends for a fun night of sports.

I got to watch the Canucks dominate the Toronto Maple Laughs oh I meant Leafs in a 4-2 victory. go Canucks go.

Then watched the UFC fights. I enjoyed the number of fights even if they were not a lot of big names on this card. The technical BJJ was great in a number of the fights.

So here is the thing as I was watching the Couture vs Lesner fight I spotted couture drinking Perfect Water. I know that he has always been a huge proponent of PH diets designed to help alkalize the body. And then I found this interview with him drinking Perfect Water during the interview.

http://videos.mmaweekly.com/view_player.php?id=2792 check it out

So if you are asking how can I get some here is the link.

www.3pkhealthstore.com

I have been supplying all of my clients with it for the last 5 months and they all love it.

So why should you consider drinking it over normal tap water. Well it is 8.5 pH which helps increase your bodies pH levels. High pH levels have been shown to help improve performance and increase overall health.

it is filtered 15 times and it has electrolytes and is oxygenated.

Personally I just like it.

Then on Sunday I finished a book I have been reading Brisinger,

went out side for My Sunday workout of raking all the 1000s of leaves in my yard. Then we and headed out to Mikes birthday party.

It was a meat lovers heaven. However, they do not believe in veggies at all except potato's and coleslaw. If you want to have a cheat meal this is the place to eat.

Here is why i will be eating veggies and fruit for the rest of the week. http://www.memphisbluesbbq.com/menu.asp

Back to training hard this week with the kettle bells. PS we have 1 space open in our Thursday night 630 Kettle bell class. if any of you are interested please email me or call us directly.

in health Paul k Turner.

3 Reasons to Avoid Elliptical Machines

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The latest Men's Health magazine comes down on elliptical machines hard.

Now I know elliptical machines are often the only option for people with bad knees, but if your knees are healthy, think twice before using the elliptical machine for these three reasons.

First, on page 52 of the December, 2008 issue, Men's Health warns, "Never trust elliptical machines".

They quote a study that found elliptical machines over-estimated the number of calories burned in a workout by 31%!

Ouch.

So if your "elliptical cardio workout" burned 400 calories, the truth is you really burned closer to only 300 calories.

Second, later in the Dec. issue, Men's Health magazine interviewed Biggest Loser contestant Ed Brantley. Ed lost 73 pounds on the show, but had this to say about elliptical machines, "I hated the elliptical. It was too easy, I didn't feel like I was doing anything."

Exactly. I couldn't have said it better myself.

But that's EXACTLY why elliptical machines are so popular...

You see, the third reason elliptical machines are inferior for fat loss is because they fail my "human nature" test.

Put it this way...

Take 100 people and put them in a gym with 100 treadmills and 100 elliptical machines.

Tell them they have to exercise for 30 minutes at a hard pace, and they have the choice to use either the treadmill or the elliptical.

Guess where 90% of folks are going?

The elliptical!

Why?

Because it is human nature to take the EASY WAY out. And that is why elliptical machines are so busy at the gym and you rarely see anyone doing intervals on a treadmill or bodyweight circuits in the corner of the gym.

Often I see folks using the elliptical machine only to say they "worked out", but without getting any REAL work done.

So if you are stuck at a fat loss plateau, and you've been counting on the elliptical machine to help you out, then forget it.

To burn fat and get more out of your workouts, do interval training outside, on a bike or treadmill, or with kettlebell exercises or bodyweight circuits.

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langley kinesiologist Asks: Are you at your peak? Giving back having fun and enjoying life more.

This is a simple question that I ask my clients. It is one that you should ask yourself as well. However it goes deaper than that. You then need to ask what will it take for me to get to my peak.

This is a much harder question to answer. I have found that it is a question that is not a simple answer off the top of you head.
So how can you do it?

I personally like mind mapping it is visual and fits my personality of having a lot of ideas and then organizing them into some sort of order.
So what do I do well I will start writing, dumping out everything that is in my head good or bad not editing it at first on to one page. I always say a cluttered brain does not opperate at a high level.

Then I edit back through the thoughts after about 15 -20 minutes adn try to find the essense of what I was trying to answer. I find this works for any question at any level, because our minds do not like unanswered questions.

Then I start to determine how i need to put it all together on one page. And what are the main areas of the questions and what are the to do's.

It is a great way for anyone to really get to the heart of an issue.