This article explains in plain English the fascinating reason why a wide stance makes squatting parallel so much easier for long femurs. If you know that long femurs have been hampering your ability to go [...]
There is no comparison between an adult's full squat and a young child's full squat, yet people continue comparing the two when discussing the back squat exercise. As a former personal trainer, it continues to [...]
Does femur length really matter when it comes to hiking efficiency? “Long femurs” refers to relative length of these bones to one’s overall height or leg length, and in the world of weightlifting, the issue [...]
Here are three simple and fun exercises to improve back squats if you have the unfortunate levers of relatively long femurs. Bad levers do not mean that you can’t override long femurs by “strengthening your ancillaries.” [...]
Though a long femur relative to shin is a disadvantage in squats, it’s a biomechanical plus in the leg extension and hamstring curl. The long femur to short shin proportion has been vilified as bad [...]
Even a super tall NBA star could do an ass to grass squat if he has the right proportions! Do not blame squat problems on being tall. Being tall, in and of itself, is not a disadvantage [...]
It isn’t just femur to torso ratio that can create problems with the back squat; shin length relative to upper leg can also mess things up. You’re aware that if the femurs are longer than [...]
Anyone who’s struggled to get parallel in the squat (femur torso ratio) knows that elevating the heels makes this possible, and here’s why. For those with long femurs and short torso who can’t achieve a [...]
I could not believe it when a strength training enthusiast chastised another about the parallel squat, in that the one trainee insisted he was not able to squat due to a short torso (and long [...]
Super tall men with relatively short femurs have a squat advantage over shorties with relatively long femurs ANY DAY. Many believe that being tall interferes with doing a parallel squat because, allegedly, it's troublesome to [...]
If you’re biomechanically disadvantaged due to femurs that are longer than your torso, find out if this means you’re weak. When a person with long femurs (meaning, femurs longer than their torso, regardless of overall [...]
It’s a myth that the squat butt wink is caused ONLY by tight hamstrings or tight hips! Want to know what really is behind the cause of the butt wink motion that so many people [...]
Short people CAN have a relatively long femur, meaning, their thigh bone is longer than their torso -- even if their overall height is way shorter than average. As a former personal trainer, I am fascinated [...]
You know that long femurs are a curse for squatting exercises, but does this problem carry over to day-to-day activities? As a former personal trainer and always-fitness enthusiast, this topic intrigues me. If you clicked [...]
There’s a fool proof way to tell if your femurs are too long for decent parallel back squats. If you can’t parallel squat, does this automatically mean your femurs are too long relative to the [...]
If you’ve given up on the squat due to long femurs, here are the best exercises to build muscle in your legs. Time and time again, the muscle building literature says that people with long [...]
Learn about what increasing low back flexibility can do for your squat if you're stiffed with the curse of long femurs and a short torso! If you’ve been working hard on getting your squat to [...]
Are you in construction and wondering if this will build muscle the way that training at a gym with weights will? The big question for men in construction work who believe that this occupation can [...]
Does doing leg presses make your legs shake? So your legs shake while doing leg presses; what is going on here? I’m a former personal trainer and was not uncommon for my clients’ legs to start [...]
Follow these guidelines to help prevent finger pain related to climbing. Finger pain from climbing can be caused by more than one factor, says Joseph Ciccone, DPT, CSCS, a doctor of physical therapy and certified [...]
You can relieve your low back pain by walking backwards on a treadmill... ...but if you hold on, you'll sabotage this benefit! You need to stand upright and keep your hands off the rails. Walking [...]
One day I noticed that after completing my third or fourth set of deadlifts, my right elbow felt a bit funny. This funny feeling was in the joint; the tendon had somehow been overloaded or [...]
GOMAD means a gallon of milk a day for weight gain, but have you ever considered olive oil? When a man chooses GOMAD for weight gain, it’s usually whole milk, or maybe 2 percent. However, [...]
An expert explains the risks children have in developing anorexia nervosa when their mother struggles with the eating disorder herself. How much can an anorexic environment, created by a mother, raise the risk of her [...]
It’s a fair question: If a woman has anorexia and has not yet had children, should she postpone parenthood until she absolutely feels she has conquered her eating disorder? Anorexia nervosa is a form of [...]
A girl is more likely to develop anorexia nervosa, relative to her baseline inclination, if her mother has this eating disorder. From an intuitive point of view, it seems as though just the sight of [...]
Here are guidelines for kids to help their mother with anorexia nervosa seek treatment. If you’re a teenager or even younger, and your mother has anorexia nervosa, it’s presumable that you’d like to help out, [...]
Some people believe that a woman with anorexia should not have children -- “have” as in raise kids. In other words, that it’s not ethically right for anorexic women to decide to rear kids, as [...]
Though anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder rather than a drug or alcohol addiction, its consequences can have a profoundly negative effect on children of the patient. Don’t assume “It’s just an eating disorder; how [...]
If you’re a teenaged girl who’s struggling because your mother has anorexia nervosa, know that you are absolutely not to blame for your mother’s eating disorder, says Linda Centeno, PhD, clinical psychologist, and assistant director [...]
If you have anorexia nervosa, don't underestimate how damaging the effects of this will be on your children, especially daughters. One woman shares how badly her anorexia nervosa affected her daughter. I interviewed Kari Adams, who [...]
Liam Hoekstra was born in 2005. The World's Strongest Toddler aired in 2014 on TLC about 3-year-old Liam Hoekstra, a pint-size boy from Roosevelt Park who has 40 percent more muscle mass than typical [...]
Have you or someone you know been told they have “inflammatory lung disease”? “Inflammatory lung diseases are clinically and histopathologically [under the microscope] a group of acute and chronic conditions,” begins Sashini Seeni, MD, a [...]
Depression can cause constipation. However, if your depression has caused constipation, you may not even know it. “The range of normal bowel movement frequency is from one BM in three days to three BMs in [...]
Are you an adult who cries too much? Are you an adult who cries excessively? Just how abnormal is it for an adult to be prone to excessive crying episodes? There are different kinds of crying, [...]
If your fasting glucose is about 106, do not panic, as this does not automatically mean you have insulin resistance or prediabetes. A few years ago I visited a general practitioner to find out why [...]
T3 just may work better on depression than antidepressant drugs. A large percentage of people suffering from depression actually have low thyroid, says Dr. Kent Holtorf, MD, thyroidologist and founder of Holtorf Medical Group in [...]
Having diabetes is no excuse to blow your top and be angry at your loved-ones all the time, but this disease indeed could lead to factors that can alter mood and even cause ADHD symptoms. [...]
The ads for Carnivora on the “Coast to Coast” radio show are incessant and strongly hint it can cure cancer. If you're a faithful listener to "Coast to Coast," then you already know that this [...]
A doctor says that after recovering from pneumonia, the cough can persist for a few weeks. “Yes, it is true,” says Susan L. Besser, MD, with Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore; Diplomate, American Board of Obesity [...]
