Vitamin D for Athletes With all the rage about finding the newest supplement for performance and recovery in the endurance world, we may not need to look any farther then a tried and true vitamin that is quickly becoming a major fixture in ergogenic aids for athletes (see SportLegs.com). Vitamin D is best known […]
Embrace your health in 2010
Every year I get asked the same questions around this time. Instead of hearing the same old rant from me, I’ll let Meredith Falcon, head personal trainer at ActivEdge Fitness & Sports Performance, answer: Ladies, here we are once again, in a new year with fresh goals, high expectations of ourselves, and the top button […]
Teddy Mullin wins Gatorade State POY award
ActivEdge’s Teddy Mullin, a product of Jordan High School, has been awarded the Gatorade’s State Player of the Year award. Teddy, who will be a senior at Jordan High School in the fall of 2010, has committed to Wake Forest University. As well as winning state Gatorade Player of the Year and a State Championship […]
Reality Race 5K a Huge Success!!
The inagural Reality Race 5K and Pump n’ Run was a major success! Saturday, December 12th, turned out to be a beautiful winter day and runners showed up in droves to help support Reality Ministries from downtown Durham.
Prolotherapy For Tendonitis
This is the second part of a two-part article covering different, alternative treatments of chronic tendonitis or tendinopathies. In the first part, I discussed the use of low-level laser therapy, or cold laser therapy, and its effectiveness in providing relief and recovery in quadriceps knee tendonitis. For the second part, I will cover another type of treatment that is gaining popularity in the United States, but is still not fully supported by the medical community, known as prolotherapy.
Reality Ministries In Herald-Sun
DURHAM — If a seventh-grade boy calls your community center “the best place ever after school,” that’s a good sign you’ve accomplished your goal of providing a fun place for adolescents to go after school.
Reality Race 5K Registration Now Open!!
Reality Ministries is a local Durham community based, inter-church youth ministry organization. Staff and volunteers are committed to developing mentoring relationships with adolescents, especially by serving at The Reality Center. They strive to be a place with no margins; a safe place where all people are valued and accepted equally. They want their friends to know that the deepest Reality of their lives is God’s love for them as demonstrated by Jesus Christ.
All proceeds will be given to support Reality Ministries.
The Reality Race 5K trail is a running and walking course around the perimeter of the Washington Duke Golf Course and Inn and is known to locals as the Al Buehler Trail, named after the longtime Duke Cross-Country coach. Although not technically part of the Duke Forest, the trail is maintained by the Office of the Duke Forest as a service to the University and the Durham community.
Packet Pick-up will be on Friday, December 11 at ActivEdge Fitness.
The race will take place on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm.
Register online now!
Should Women Train the Same?
“Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus” was a popular book released in the early ‘90’s about the differences, mostly in personality, between men and women. But does this saying need to be applied to the gym setting as well? Are there really big differences between the way men and women need to workout?
New Grads Head to College
Abby Anderson – Played basketball at Jordan High School. She is a hard working athlete who is dedicated to making herself better constantly. She will hopefully contribute to the basketball program at Belmont Abbey College.
How and When to Stretch
For all athletes, recreational and elite, it is important that stretching as a means of warm-up as well as recovery, be incorporated into their training schedules in order to achieve optimal performance. There are many theories and anecdotal stories of what one should or shouldn’t do to attain the best results. And while there are indeed differences amongst individuals in how they respond to one or the other, I hope to review the current literature to help dispel any myths or fallacies.