Stressing? Are your cortisol levels too high? by Chelsea Garcia, ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist What exactly is cortisol and how does it affect you? Cortisol is known as the body's [Read More]
OVER TRAINING
The Missing Link From Your Training Program
By Shelby Stoner, PHASE IV Exercise Physiologist It seems like you’re doing all of the right things, you’re training 4+ days per week, incorporating a variety of workouts, working in your Long Slow [Read More]
8 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight
By Tina Paymaster, PHASE IV Functional Nutrition & Health Specialist The journey to losing weight – easy for some and a frustrating enigma to many others. If eating “right” and exercising [Read More]
UNDERSTANDING MARATHON INJURIES
Understanding Marathon Injuries By CEO Robert Forster, PT Unless you fall down and break something, the injuries you are likely to suffer from marathon training are "over-use" injuries related [Read More]
THE BEST AND WORST FITNESS AND DIET TRENDS FOR 2018
Along with the New Year usually comes setting intentions that include some sort of health and fitness goal. As these intentions come and go each year, so do the fitness trends. According to recent [Read More]
THE SLOW DEATH OF GYMS AND FITNESS
The Slow Death of Gyms & Fitness >> HIRT Blog by Christian Marchegiani When did being fit become a modelling contest? Why is exercise now all about entertainment? Why are celebrities the new [Read More]
TAPERING FOR THE LA MARATHON
Tapering For The LA Marathon: Recovery And Peak With only two weeks left before the 2016 Skechers L.A. Marathon, all competitors should now be in final preparations for race day. With the last long [Read More]
JOINT PAIN, A REALITY OF LIFE?
You wake up in the morning and limp to the bathroom, as the sore knee that use to be stiff occasionally, is now painful almost every day. You vaguely remember an injury from your high school athletic [Read More]