Last week, I was enjoying the afternoon with one of my favorite people and fellow body nerds, Trina Altman. Over lunch and a long walk, we got to discussing the world of research vs. the world of blogging. They are quite different in format. Research, is long, drawn...
The theme song from Frozen may as well be the mantra for many yoga classes – where letting go, surrendering, and opening your (fill in the blank) are seductively crooned by the teacher at the front of the room, perhaps only a little less emphatically...
Headlines are so misleading. All of them. Except this one. Stretching does improve flexibility. Really. It does. The data tell us so. Until the data tell us differently, I feel confident in saying that stretching improves flexibility. In fact, stretching...
I finally did it. I completed my literature based research and successfully defended my thesis to the evaluating committee – I am officially peer reviewed. I honestly never thought it would end. There were times I just wanted to walk away. I had already...
Last week, I met with my thesis adviser to get some feedback on this never ending immensely satisfying project – a comprehensive literature-based research project on stretching. One of the things she suggested was that I include the principle of...
My last post introduced viscoelasticity. Today’s post will cover one of the phenomena of viscoelasticity: creep. Creep is defined by an initially rapid increase in strain (deformation) followed by a slower increase in strain at a constant stress (load)...
