I have been a podiatrist for the past 27 years, I have been a health nut, exercise enthusiast and “gym rat” even longer. Over the years I have seen a variety of strange exercise techniques as well as even stranger cardio/exercise procedures and ever more outlandish locker room activities. Having spent five to six days a week training in the gym all these years, there are plenty of yesterdays in the gym. Being a health care provider treating the foot and ankle for nearly three decades there are plenty of times I get to see the resulting insult and injury for some of those behaviors I have observed at the gym the day before.However, not all is lost to my observations of those aberrant quirks that result in detrimental outcomes. I have also seen a lot of excellent technique and beneficial behaviors and have incorporated these to make my workouts and I dare say, my life, better. Let’s face the facts——-exercise and keeping yourself in shape is far more advantageous to one’s overall well being then the few temporary set backs to the skeleton or skin that all athletes suffer from time to time. Even with decades of […]

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