]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/squat Blog Articles Tagged with 'squat' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/911337?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Readers Carol, Don, Teresa, AJ, and others asked about strength, and knee pain and placement when descending stairs.Physical therapist Teresa wrote: Hello Dr. Bookspan, The post on Better Exercise on the Stairs from July 2007 contains the following... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/911337?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:09:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/909457?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Is a leg press the same as a squat upside down? Both the squat and leg press bend and straighten the legs against resistance. But something special makes opposite forces on the joints.The post Exercising With A Friend - Partner Leg Press showed a fun... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/909457?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:26:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/899649?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Here is Friday Fast Fitness - have fun while building balance, flexibility, coordination, concentration, and leg strength.Stand on one footBend the standing leg while raising the other leg behind you to lower your upper body toward the floorRetrieve ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/899649?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:44:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/897487?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Barbara's story came in over several weeks. Barbara thought she was healthy and active, and had done years of yoga. She had years of lower back pain, then a sudden onset of severe pain, leg weakness, and numbness. She couldn't push off effectively wi... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/897487?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:35:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/885230?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wide Squat is a great pose that opens your hips, but if you want to open your shoulders, chest, and increase flexibility in your spine as well, then you're going to love doing Bound Wide Squat. The prep for this pose makes you feel an incredible sens... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/885230?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/884170?rsstype=tag&tag=squat 'Tis the season for tight hips. If it's snowy where you live, and you're doing all kinds of Winter sports like skiing and snowboarding, I'm sure your whole lower body is feeling tight. The onset of Winter often causes people to exercise less, and not... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/884170?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:15:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882453?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Start off the new year with fitness as a lifestyle. Use healthy movement and body positioning as you go about all your daily activities.David from Belgium trains balance first thingIvy from New Zealand uses a half squat to functionally strengthen her... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/882453?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:10:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/880860?rsstype=tag&tag=squat In a time crunch, you need to find exercises that work many body parts with one exercise. That is why I am loving this variation on squats I found over at ExerciseTV. It incorporates side bending as well as an overhead press into your basic squat. Th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/880860?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:30:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/875700?rsstype=tag&tag=squat If you love squats, hiking, climbing stairs, and other exercises that make your thighs and buns burn, then this is the sequence for you. It starts with Fierce pose, which you'll recognize from Sun Salutation B, and moves on to some variations that ar... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/875700?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:15:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/870191?rsstype=tag&tag=squat A special story came in. I had been corresponding with someone who wrote me to ask how to stop her mother's knee pain, and later with questions to help her father. I was charmed by this good daughter who wanted to help her parents. She faithfully tau... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/870191?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:49:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/866965?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Reader Ivy from New Zealand wrote me that she was house-sitting for friends on their farm. When you read her note, remember that Ivy is a great-grandmother, You were very much on my mind yesterday. My friends had arranged for someone to come onto th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/866965?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:22:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/865961?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou EricksonInvolve children in gardening at any level. Getting outside to dig, bend, stretch, think, and create in the fresh air is health as a lifestyle - improving phys... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/865961?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:31:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/862251?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Ivy had serious sciatica with foot drop. She had knee and other injuries. She was in awful pain. In this kind of foot drop, the nerve cannot serve the muscles enough to lift the foot to walk normally. The toes drag. The foot hangs limply and slaps th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/862251?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:53:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/861807?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Ivy from New Zealand e-mailed me last week with a funny update of persevering to improve mobility and health from a new stretch. I started writing this post just to tell of Ivy's stretch and how readers can have the same success.I looked over my file... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/861807?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:11:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/860776?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Reader Jill hasn't sent a photo yet, but her words are a beautiful picture. Her story can help many readers stop pain and improve strength and function for happier daily life.In the post Lunges and Beans Jill commented on Celiac disorder, an immune r... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/860776?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:05:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/857305?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Many people know they need to bend right but don't because it hurts their knees.Bending right will not hurt knees. It will help fix one of the things that has been injuring them - bad bending habits which pressure and grind the joint.Good bending w... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/857305?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:47:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/856658?rsstype=tag&tag=squat The cheerleaders in the photo at right are letting their lower spine overarch.Their hip tilts forward in front and sticks out in back.It is an unhealthy, pain-producing spine position.Can you see it?Can you see it better nowwith arrows showing the ti... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/856658?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:13:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/855245?rsstype=tag&tag=squat When you lunge to get a stretch, to strengthen, and to bend to reach or retrieve things, keep your hip vertical instead of tilting forward. You will feel a better strengthener for your legs and a wonderful stretch for the front of your hip.Neither ph... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/855245?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:29:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/846443?rsstype=tag&tag=squat A few weeks ago, I attended a lecture on forensic anthropology. In general, this is the study of things you can tell from human bones in a crime setting. How old was the person? Were they male or female? How big were they? What was their probable rac... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/846443?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:21:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/841556?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Sitting in full squat with heels down can be healthful and useful. Squatting for daily life is a built-in Achilles stretch, more effective and functional than the standard lunge and lean stretch against the wall, or lowering one heel from a step or... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-fixer/841556?rsstype=tag&tag=squat Wed, 16 May 2007 00:01:00 -0400