Author: Denny Krahe

  • Dealing With and Preventing Plantar Fasciitis

    Dealing With and Preventing Plantar Fasciitis

    Plantar fasciitis is a pain in the butt. Well, more specifically, a pain in the foot. What is Plantar Fasciitis?  Your plantar fascia is a thick band of connective tissue that runs from your heel to the balls of your feet.

  • Is Running a Marathon Too Much for Your Heart?

    Is Running a Marathon Too Much for Your Heart?

    Running a marathon is quite an arduous task. After running 26.2 miles, runners may complain of sore feet, ankles, knees, calves, quads, and hamstrings. But what impact, if any, does completing a marathon have on your heart?

  • Prevention is the Best Medicine

    Prevention is the Best Medicine

    Preventative health care in America is practically non existent. Other than the people that are regularly active, most people don’t tend to take the initiative to do anything to improve their health before they get sick.

  • You Don’t HAVE to Gain Weight this Holiday Season. You Know That, Right?

    You Don’t HAVE to Gain Weight this Holiday Season. You Know That, Right?

    December is perhaps the most dangerous time of the year when it comes to weight gain. I’ve heard several different stats concerning how much weight the average person gains this time of year, but for a population that is losing the fight with obesity any weight gain is cause for concern.

  • Is Running Good for Your Brain Too?

    Is Running Good for Your Brain Too?

    Anyone who has spent any time around an older friend or family member that is suffering with memory loss and/or dementia knows how devastating diseases of the mind can be, not only for those suffering but on the family and caretakers as well.

  • Does the Type of Fat You Eat Matter?

    Does the Type of Fat You Eat Matter?

    The medical community tends to dumb weight gain or loss and changes in body composition down to the overly simple equation of calories in vs. calories out. If you take in more calories than you burn, according the equation, you’ll gain weight. And typically, that weight gain is in the form of increased fat stores.

  • How Inactive Are You

    How Inactive Are You

    I came across an article recently that was simultaneously shocking while making perfect sense to me.  According to recent research from the University of South Carolina, obese individuals get very little vigorous exercise on a daily basis.

  • Planks Are Great, But Can They Be Better?

    Planks Are Great, But Can They Be Better?

    Very few things in the fitness industry are as universally accepted as the notion that the best way to work your entire core musculature is by doing an exercise that spawned a brief internet craze, the plank.

  • Stand Up for Your Health

    Stand Up for Your Health

    There are no shortage of ways available for you to improve your health by increasing your physical activity level. Regular exercise is obvious place to start, but parking farther from the store or restaurant, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and not sitting for long periods of time are other less obvious ways to…

  • Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    Can Older People Incorporate Interval Training?

    When you think of interval training, what comes to mind? If you’re like me, the first thought is high intensity exercise sessions like many fitness bootcamps or CrossFit workouts.

  • How to do a Dumbbell Chest Press

    There are several exercises that are set in stone in just about everyone’s workout.  Squats, bench press, lat pull down, dumbbell curls just to name a few.  Another, of course, is the dumbbell chest press. The dumbbell chest press is a great exercise that will increase size, strength, power, and endurance of the chest and…

  • The Best Chest Workouts for Definition and Mass

    Most gym goers, especially beginners often think about the best chest workouts for definition. There are actually a variety of workouts that you can combine and basic exercises that you can perform in order to build mass and definition to your pectorals. The chest has actually two parts, which are the upper and the lower…

  • A Scientific Look at the CrossFit Craze

    You don’t have to look very far these days to come across somebody who is into the CrossFIt exercise craze, they’re literally everywhere! I know a lot of people that are all about CrossFit, and I even know a few guys that own CrossFit gyms. While I’ve never taken part in a CrossFit workout, I’ve…