Some Fats are Good for You

Avocados, although high in fat, are one of the healthiest foods around.
Here are six reasons you should consume healthy fats in your diet:
1. Healthy fats slow digestion that helps to stabilize blood sugar levels.
2. Healthy fats keep you feeling full much longer than carbs do.
3. Healthy fats help optimize hormone levels which help metabolism.
4. Healthy fats are vital to your nervous system and brain.
5. Healthy fats give you energy and keep you alert.
6. Healthy fats give you healthier skin, hair and a more youthful appearance.

Warm Ups for Summer Sports

Before you get ready for a softball game or round of golf, warm up with a little light jogging or jumping jacks to get the blood moving.

Swing your arms while you jog, varying the motion in big circles, small circles, over your head and crossing your arms in front of your chest.
Bring your knees up high while you jog to stretch your glutes.

Backscratcher Stretches Loosen Up the Shoulders
Move your hand behind your back toward the opposite shoulder. Try to touch the other hand coming up from below.
You may not be able to touch hands at first, but as you perform these stretches, your shoulders will loosen.

The Frankenstein Walk Loosens Up the Hamstrings
Kick your leg up high while reaching with the opposite hand. Do this back and forth four to six times to loosen the hamstrings.

Self-Hugs Loosen the Arms, Shoulders and Chest
Swing your arms wide, then across your body in a self-hug to help loosen the shoulder joints and stretch the muscles in the chest. Do this gently six to twelve times.

Arm Swings and Circles Loosen the Shoulders
Start with your arms outstretched and move your hands in small circles ten to twelve times, before enlarging the circles. Each time you enlarge the circle, move your arms in both directions ten to twelve times until you’re doing the largest circle you can comfortably do.

5 Ways to Exercise While Doing Housework

1. Do the rag drag while you’re cleaning floors. No need for a Swiffer if you have two good rags and two active feet.

2. Make big, exaggerated circles while cleaning windows, tubs or shower doors.

3. Do some calf raises while washing dishes.

4. Dance with the vacuum. What vacuum wouldn’t want to do a good cha-cha?

5. Carry the laundry down in more than one load. Better for your back, and you’re getting in some stair climbing.

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3 Easy Exercises for the Office

1. Brace yourself on the edge of your chair to build core muscle strength.

2. Take the stairs and do a couple of split squats on the last stair up.

3. Lift a full water bottle over your head and then behind your back while you talk on the phone.

The Mayo Clinic reports that people who fidget burn 350 calories a day more than people who don’t.

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4 Secrets from the Fittest Bodybuilders

1. Instead of cutting out carbs all together, cycle your carbs by eating more carbs on your heavy workout days, and very few carbs on your rest and recovery day.

2. Never skip breakfast. High protein oatmeal takes 3 minutes to make and 3 minutes to eat. No excuses to skip the most important meal of the day.

3. High protein eggs are a fantastic snack that boost your metabolism and suppress hunger.

4. If you want to accelerate your fat loss, reduce starches and sugar, but don’t reduce proteins or non-starchy vegetables. You need protein to feed muscle.

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Neuromuscular Massage Can Help Rotator Cuff Injuries

You don’t have to be a golfer or baseball player to suffer a rotator cuff injury.

In fact, many older people suffer rotator cuff injuries because of overuse or have some degeneration in the joint that leads to tendinitis.

Most people with rotator cuff injuries feel pain when moving the arm through a wide arc.

Many rotator cuff injuries respond to non-surgical treatment. Neuromuscular massage can improve joint function and range of motion.

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Neuromuscular Massage for Migraines

So who would want to suffer with severe pain, visual disturbances, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, sensitivity to sound and light, touch and smell as well as numbness or tingling in the extremities or face?

No one … For those people who suffer with migraine headaches, neuromuscular massage can bring relief.

In a recent study conducted at the Henry Ford Hospital, those patients who received neuromuscular massage reported fewer headaches, as well as a reduction in the duration and intensity of their headaches when receiving regular neuromuscular massage treatment.

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What is That Odd-Looking Tape Athletes Are Wearing?

Kinesiology tape has become popular with athletes and trainers. First developed in Japan, today it is used by professional athletes, fitness enthusiasts, physical and massage therapists to create a biomechanical lifting mechanism to lift the skin away from the soft tissue underneath, so that oxygen and nutrients can more easily flow into the area accelerating healing and recovery.

Kinesiology tape is good for arthritis, knee problems such as meniscus or ACL/MCL tears, rotator cuff injuries, groin and hamstring pulls, shin splints, lower-back pain, tennis and golf elbow, and more.

Most Kinesiology tape is made from hypoallergenic materials, is latex-free and uses an acrylic-based adhesive. It is widely available on the internet and in sporting goods stores.

Let Me Design a Neuromuscular Massage Program to Enhance Your Fitness Training

Every fitness enthusiast has a different routine for training, which can mean you need a different focus in your neuromuscular massage.

A person who trains in tennis, for example, may need to relieve the tightness or tension in the upper shoulders used repeatedly for tennis.

A long-distance runner may require more overall body work than a bodybuilder who is concentrating his/her workouts to sculpt a specific muscle group.

If you’re a fitness enthusiast, let me design a neuromuscular massage program to help your training.

If You’re Getting Physical Therapy, You Should Also Get Neuromuscular Massage

If you’ve been injured, or have disabling pain in your lower back or elsewhere, or joints from arthritis, neuromuscular massage can help restore felxibility to the tissues, build strength in injured tissues, help your balance and coordination, and extend range of motion.

Physical therapy and neuromuscular massage are good complementary therapies.