by GuestPoster on September 1, 2010
Ever felt tension in your jaw? Maybe it’s gone so far as to start hurting because you clench your teeth so much. Some people even experience teeth grinding so intense that parts of their teeth are literally ground away. These are the most common symptoms of a jaw condition called TMJ syndrome and if any of these symptoms seem familiar, you might want to think about what you can do to start preventing or curing your TMJ.
There are a few options available to treat TMJ, each option will be effective at different levels for different people, with different severity in symptoms. The first and most drastic option is the dreaded TMJ surgery. There are a lot of different types obviously, but one of the most common practices if for a dentist to grind down your teeth so that your bite can adjust to a normal state. This isn’t a fool proof exercise though as the root causes of TMJ may still be there, so surgery will only serve as a delayer of symptoms.
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by Josh Hanagarne on September 1, 2010
Guest post by Aloysa
I have spent an awful lot of time in my life worrying. I worried about bills, approaching deadlines, driving in the traffic to work, flu, shrinking budgets, layoffs at work, expenses, the economy, the real estate market and so on. You get the picture. I even worried about my husband driving to work and making it there safely. Do you know anyone else like me? I bet you do.
I worried so much that these worries became debilitating to a certain extent. Sometimes I could not function because I was obsessing about so many things (see my list above). Finally I have decided that I cannot live every minute of my life in a agonizing state of anxiety. I started wondering what I could do to reduce my fixation. [Read more...]
by Josh Hanagarne on August 31, 2010
Guest post by Jon Chacon, the only guy who seems to like writing about kettlebells as much as I do.
The kettlebell is widely used across the strength and conditioning community and though they have been around for close to a hundred years and originated in Russia they have just recently taken off as a fitness tool in the US. The greatest characteristic of these training tools is their immense versatility.
They can be used for a plethora of fitness goals to include strength, strength endurance, power, support grip, impact bracing, and many others. Most of the versatility in the bells comes from the offset nature of the weight in reference to the wrist.
As with a conventional dumbbell or Olympic barbell the weight is symmetric and remains inline with the wrist. The awkward and less predictable properties of the kettlebell make it more difficult to control, thus requiring the recruitment of more muscle and bone structure in any given movement.
A lot of us know what kettlebells are capable of doing. I personally use them for a lot of my conditioning training. But what are some of the limitations of the ever popular kettlebell? Is there anything that they can’t do?
Kettlebell limitations
First of all, I don’t think that there is any training tool that should be used as an “end all, beat all.” The kettlebell is great, but I don’t recommend using it all the time. In fact, if your goals are not strictly to perform a certain movement with the bells, I recommend using the kettlebell as a supplement to your other training goals.
Some of the limitations I will discuss are issues dealing with the logistics and physical properties related to kettlebells and their use, while the other issues will related to training with and using the kettlebells. [Read more...]
Ever felt tension in your jaw? Maybe it’s gone so far as to start hurting because you clench your teeth so much. Some people even experience teeth grinding so intense that parts of their teeth are literally ground away. These are the most common symptoms of a jaw condition called TMJ syndrome and if any of these symptoms seem familiar, you might want to think about what you can do to start preventing or curing your TMJ.
