Want to Become a Better Gymnast? Train Your Core

By Joshua P. Eldridge – GymnastCare.com

By Gymnast Care
The steps for dealing with an ankle injury in the first 72 hours. For an accompanying video, click here.

Active kids are more likely to remain lean and healthy during their youth and inactive adolescents are more likely to become adults who do not exercise, according to new results on tracking of physical activity behaviors in children to help predict the physical activity and fitness levels of adults.

Climbing the Pyramid or Just Hanging on the Plate? What’s the Difference?

Reproduced with permission from Dr. Andrew Weil’s Self Healing newsletter
With record numbers of us tipping the scales in the overweight range, problems previously seen in middle-age or beyond are now occurring in young people: There’s been nearly a tenfold increase in type 2 diabetes among children and teens since the 1980s, once so rare in youngsters the condition was called adult-onset diabetes.