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by: Matt Leu An ELDOA is a one-minute posture designed to act like skeletal traction (a steady pull that takes pressure off a joint) that you create with your own muscles. That tension is transmitted through a connective tissue network called fascia. You actively anchor one part of the body, reach with another, and hold a precise position that aims tension at one joint or spinal segment. It looks like stretching, works like traction, and feels like a plank. The method was dev

Are we using data to train, or training to make data? Matt Leu, M.S. Kinesiology | Personal Trainer Since 2006 | Studio Owner & Operator We collect more information about ourselves than any generation before us. Steps, sleep scores, readiness, body fat, resting heart rate, calories in and out. Most of it arrives without anyone asking for it, none of it comes with instructions, and at some point it stops being information about us and starts being us. So here's where we start

What the numbers on the back of the package actually mean, and the order to read them in Anthony Lawrence, B.S. Kinesiology, Minor in Nutrition | Personal Trainer & Group Fitness Instructor Most people read a nutrition label the same way: flip the box, find the biggest number, and decide. Usually that's calories, sometimes sugar. That isn't really reading the label. It's skimming one line and hoping it tells the whole story, and it happens to be the line that tells you the le

A practitioner's interpretation and applied framework for working professionals. Matt Leu, M.S. Kinesiology | Personal Trainer Since 2006 | Studio Owner & Operator I’ve been coaching for 20 years. I hold an M.S. in Kinesiology, own a boutique training studio, and manage a team of 10-12 fitness professionals. When the American College of Sports Medicine published its updated resistance training position stand last month (the first in 17 years), I read the full 22-page paper. T