By Shari Feuz, on March 5th, 2010
In celebration of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C., Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has loaned Leonardo DaVinci’s Anatomical Manuscript A to the Vancouver Art Gallery for showing in its entirety for the first time ever.
The Anatomical Manuscript A is a collection of anatomical drawings and study notes made by DaVinci in 1510. DaVinci dissected as many as 30 cadavers (unclaimed bodies from a charitable hospital) as part of his study for a treatise on the human body, a work that never came to fruition.
Knowledge lost
Exactly 5 centuries ago DaVinci’s exploration of the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system produced a knowledge base that would certainly have served as a definitive guide to human movement for centuries to come. But it didn’t. After DaVinci’s death in 1519 the 18 sheets of paper, or folios, that make up Anatomical Manuscript A fell into private possession and were subsequently held in private collection until 1898 when the entire manuscript was published.
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By Shari Feuz, on February 1st, 2010
The Thrive Diet is a philosophy about nourishing the body for health and for high level athletic performance with a plant only based diet. A large amount of the discussion hinges on stress, nutritional and exercise stress in particular and how food can be used most efficiently to prevent and recover from various stressors. Read more »
By Shari Feuz, on January 24th, 2010
I created thousands of workout routines for women at the women only fitness center I used to work at, and not a single workout included the ‘ab machine.’
That was the actual name of the big hunk of steel and pink upholstery strategically placed at the entrance of the weightroom (for sales purposes I am sure). You know the one with the weight stack where you sit down, strap your feet in and then lean forward pressing your chest against a pad and into a curled up position.
Woman are so polite. I estimate that at the very end of the new orientations I conducted, 50% of women would kindly ask why I had not included the ‘ab machine’ in the program. The 50% who didn’t ask were always spotted trying it out on their own within the next week. Of course I had to intervene and show them how to use it correctly.
Needless to say I spent a lot of time talking about and demonstrating a machine I tried hard to ignore. Here are 6 reasons why I avoid the ‘ab machine’: Read more »
By Shari Feuz, on January 20th, 2010
Every body is unique and will respond best to a training program that is customized specifically for it. Too many times I see people performing exercises that are unsafe for them or that will actually perpetuate already poor posture.
A snapshot of your postural alignment contains some of the most important information needed to customize your fitness training program. Here are 7 reasons why you should consider having a physical and a lifestyle assessment of your alignment before you hit the weights. Read more »
