Power walking helped me lose a lot of weight and got me started with exercise. But in my early days of walking, I wasn’t yet a fitness professional, and I made some rookie mistakes that led to a painful bout of plantar fasciitis and other issues. Those mistakes included a lack of proper physical preparation before my walking workouts, and not utilizing recovery techniques afterwards. If Continue Reading
VIDEO: 5 exercises to relieve neck pain from looking down at your phone
Looking down at your phone can be a pain in the neck -- literally! They call this discomfort tech neck, text neck or phone neck. And if it hasn’t happened to you yet, chances are at some point it will if you’re a phone user. Why is this? Well, your head weighs about 10-12 pounds when your spine is in a neutral position. But when you bend your head forward, the stress this places on the neck Continue Reading