Train for a Reason and a Purpose

Featured in Endurance Magazine – March 2017 As the New Year wanes and spring starts creeping in with hints of warmer weather ahead, many of us hit the outdoors for the beautiful period when it’s not too hot to get out and do what we love to do. For some of us, that often means […]

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TRX – Dive Bomber Push Up

Featured in Endurance Magazine- February 2017 Several of my advancing shoulder rehab clients originally hurt themselves participating in precarious gymnastic ring-based exercises injuring their rotator cuff or long-head biceps tendon. They ultimately want to return to some of these high-intensity bodyweight exercises with one of the more challenging being a handstand push-up. In our progression […]

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OCCONEECHEE SPEEDWAY RELAY 2017

Runners, start your engines! Bull City Running is proud to announce the 3rd annual Speedway Relay! Relay teams of two or four people will have the chance to race around the last remaining dirt track in NASCAR history! All proceeds will benefit the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to help connect the Speedway Trail with Ayr […]

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Kettlebell Land Mine

Featured in Endurance Magazine- January 2017 This movement requires an additional strap and kettle bell to complete the exercise. This is a modification of the popular “land mine” exercise and is one of my favorites for the abdominals in a functional closed kinetic chain standing position. Start in a standing position facing away from the […]

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AE claims BEST of 2016 in Endurance Magazine!

We are honored to be voted “Best Fitness Club” and “Best Pilates Studio” in the Triangle by Endurance Magazine. We are also proud to be runners up in the “Best Physical Therapy Practice” and “Best Place to Get a Massage” category. Thank you to all who voted!

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TRX Tip: Core Series

Featured in Endurance Magazine- December 2016 Other than some ultra endurance runners and cyclocross racers, most athletes have entered the first stages of indoor-based training. Some experiment with resistance and cross training at this time to make some strength gains and help balance out some physiological differences amongst sides. Most of us realize the importance […]

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Resting My Weary Knees

Featured in Endurance Magazine- November 2016 This time of year several of my clients wrap up their year with a fall event and then enter down time in their training. For some, that means a few weeks off around Thanksgiving or December; for others it means trying their hand at a more rigorous and directed […]

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ActivEdge Opening a New Location!

        ActivEdge Fitness & Sports Performance has teamed up with Chris Newport and her team at The Endurance Edge in Cary, NC and opened up another location! This location will be dedicated to physical therapy only and will be doing business as Upright Athlete, our newest platform for providing the best patient […]

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Myofascial Decompression: Not Just For Olymipians

Featured in Endurance Magazine – September 2016 Many of you watched the Olympics last month and couldn’t help but notice the discolored circles that were showing up on the world’s best swimmers. Their shoulders, back, and chest covered like alien marks all over their body. These marks, although painful looking, are actually helpful and result […]

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My Journey Back From Injury

Featured in Endurance Magazine-July 2016 Dr. Chad Mather of Duke University performs almost 300 arthroscopic surgeries a year on femoral acetabular impingement (FAI). He estimates about 90% of the hip arthroscopies for FAI involve labral repair. About 3 years ago I noticed some hip pain but only after hard runs or interval training. At the […]

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