Here in the fast-paced, glitzy world of Points North Physical Therapy, we've just wrapped up a 30-day fitness challenge. We started on December 1st with a 30-second plank and followed a calendar of plank intervals to gradually build up our plank time with the goal of...

Question from the audience: "I'd like my shoulders to look ripped but I don't have much time for weight training at the gym. What should I do?" A: What we're facing here is the same issue we addressed in the hot abs series 6 weeks ago. Good looks come from good health...

Hot Abs In A Hurry! Question from the audience: "Help! I'm going on vacation in 7 weeks and I need my abs to look good. What should I do?" A: There are a number of ways to approach this problem. We'll get to that. But first, I feel the need to lecture for a moment,...

Russian Twists "But why are they called Russian twists?" Everybody always asks, as if I know the history of every exercise ever invented, so I make up random answers like, "Russian gymnasts in the 1970's had to perform 5000 of these in a row for their warm-up." The...

Sorry to miss yesterday. Clearly, PTs get busy and/or lazy and drop the ball too. The bad news is that we're planking again. The good news is that this one will make ab exercise # 1 seem easy! There are a number of ways to do the side plank, all of them feel awful,...