The Meridian Flexibility System is suitable for all ages and abilities and also provides enormous gains in performance if incorporated into a training regime for professional athletes. It has provided positive results for Allan Houston (NY Knicks), Charlie Ward (Houston Rockets), Dara Torres (5-time Olympic Medallist in Swimming), Jason Werth (Los Angeles Dodgers), and more. Check the Athletes page of the Meridian Flexibility website for more information.

Resistance Stretching provides immediate, cumulative, and over time permanent increases in flexibility. Most people are surprised at the feeling the stretch provides immediately after their first experience. It is truly a unique and powerful way to use your muscles that most people have not experienced throughout their entire lives.

Yes, they can. MuscoMax is a really effective dietary supplement that can be used to increase people???s strength & stamina for athletic events.

Unfortunately, knee injuries during sports can happen to anyone. A casual game of soccer can turn into a painful and debilitating injury for someone whose body is unprepared for athletics. Knee injuries can happen during an impromptu volleyball game at your company picnic, when your are heading out to the ski slopes on your first free weekend in a while, or even while playing a game of catch with your children.

First, read The Genius of Flexibility by Bob Cooley and then attend a workshop or book a private session to nail down the concept of resisting while stretching. Private assisted stretching sessions are recommended in order for me to give you an idea of where your body is in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, as well as discuss your goals. You can also attend weekly self-stretch classes to increase your flexibility in between private sessions and stay connected to others who practice RFST.

No. Shrier and Gossal warn that injuries affect the stretching properties of muscles. Injured athletes may require stretches to be held longer to increase range of motion.

Stretching helps maintain or restore normal joint motion. Flexibility is necessary for comfortable movement during exercise and daily activities. Joint motion also helps lubricate your joints and nourish your cartilage. Flexibility exercises should be done gently. If stretching hurts, you are pushing too hard. Flexibility exercises should be done before any more vigorous types of exercise. Generally, stretching is tolerated on a daily basis and is an excellent form of relaxation.

Stretching and exercise enhance each other. Stretching lengthens muscles; exercise shortens muscles. Like exercise, stretching must be safe and requires warm-up, reasonable levels of exertion, and adequate rest periods. A regular stretching program keeps our muscles limber, prevents injuries, and enables us to be physically active.

This program is growing rapidly in popularity among professional boxers, martial artists, football players, baseball players, tennis players, golfers, baseball players, and wrestlers. These athletes want to increase their strength, but don’t want to bulk up. “Strength for the Streets” uses exercises that help them become stronger, build muscle endurance, improve conditioning and flexibility – yet not gain weight.

During my 35 years in optometry, I have prescribed vision exercises for thousands of individuals, including Olympic and professional athletes and many children challenged by learning-related vision problems. The results are often dramatic. Most of the children I worked with experienced profound changes in their learning ability, behavior and self-image. The athletes I trained noticed significant performance improvements within a short period of time.

Perspiration in a dark moist environment is the perfect place for fungal producing athletes' foot. Athletes' foot can spread around locker rooms, spas, pools and other public areas. It is important that you protect your feet in these areas and wear flips flops, crocs etc..

Tight-fitting trainers are a common cause of athlete's foot. Athlete's foot is a fungal infection of the foot caused by parasites on the skin called dermatophytes. Dermatophytes can be divided into three groups according to their favourite hosts: Athlete's foot is usually caused by anthropophile fungi. The most common species are Microsporum, Epidermophyton and Trichophyton. These account for 90 per cent of all skin fungal infections, commonly referred to as ringworm.

Resistance is the unwillingness of a subject to accept the hypnotic process; usually due to an inhibition, fear of hypnosis or fear of another nature existing in the client. A school in my area is holding a weekend course and says I will be able to call myself a "Hypnotherapist" and know everything I need to open a professional practice. Is this true!

Vasa Trainers were selected by the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 2000 Sydney Olympics for use at the swimming and athletic training venues. In fact, over 75% of the athletes on the 1996 and 2000 U.S. Olympic Swimming Teams trained with Vasa Trainers at their home clubs. In addition to swimmers, professional triathletes, surfers, Olympic rowers, kayakers, cross-country skiers, winter biathletes, and elite athletes from many other sports use the Vasa Trainer.

Absolutely! Not only are the pros taking Athlete Octane™, they helped design it. We worked with national and world-caliber endurance athletes to ensure Athlete Octane™ would perform under the most strenuous conditions. See our web site for a list of pros who make Athlete Octane™ part of their program and why they do.

No. Currently we treat high school, college, world class/olympians, and semi-pro athletes as well as the professionals. Some are vying for scholarships, some for contracts, but all want improved performance.

There are four aspects to stretching: position, resistance, breathing, and the psychological effects. While all of these are important, it is best to keep your focus on whatever 'comes up' while stretching. Each stretch will cause you to experience different sensations. Most people find that focusing on the sensations that arise while stretching provides the best results. How should you breathe? It can be counter productive to regulate your breathing while stretching.

Continuously contract the target muscle group while elongating it. The contraction keeps the muscle "in check" and as long as you are contracting, you are preventing the muscle from being over-stretched. top

It's a good idea to wait at least 3 times as long as the healing period before attempting to stretch. This is only a General Rule, so sometimes you can go faster, sometimes slower. It's always a good idea to let your piercer do the stetching as the right tools for the job make it a lot easier. Patience is a virtue, stretch at a normal pace...when your body wants you too. We also suggest 6-8 weeks in between each streatch.

The fire resistance of a component, such as a steel column, is its ability to resist the affects of fire for a period of time and this is usually measured by submitting the component to a firetest as defined in a nationally or internationally recognised standard.

Some people find that nasal strips such as Breathe Right provide some relief. They look much like Band-Aids and are worn across the nose. The springing action in the strip can help to open up the nasal passages and improve breathing.

Throughout history and across cultures, honey has been recognized as a natural energy booster for athletes of all kinds. Athletes competing in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, as well as modern day mountain climbers and swimmers, have all benefited from honey as an effective energy source. It provides a concentrated energy source that helps prevent fatigue and can boost athletic performance.

We all have one or more of the fungi that can cause athlete's foot on our bodies. They feed on dead skin cells and are usually harmless. Athlete's foot is a common condition in young people and adults. The fungi love warm, moist places with the result they are primarily a problem for people who wear tight-fitting trainers or don't dry their feet properly. The condition is contagious. It can be spread by direct skin-to-skin contact and indirectly through towels, shoes, floors, etc.

A red itchy rash in the spaces between the toes (often between the 4th and 5th toes initially) and possibly small pustules.