(Weight Loss News) Fitness questions can be many and varied (Knoxville News Sentinel)

The trainer Mary Layne, head of LifeStages Fitness, gave me some initial good news when we met at Fitness First in Reston, Va. My VO2 max score – the measure of the body’s ability to process oxygen – tested at 38. The therapist Speed, explosive power – none of this mattered to Richard Jackson, a physical therapist and owner of The Jackson Clinics in Northern Virginia, when he put me through his two-hour functional fitness exam. An imbalance in the core muscles, for example, means the stronger side overcompensates – and eventually something gets hurt. My sternum and clavicle had separated on the right side long ago – and fused in the wrong place. But the weak right hip and side muscles – they needed work to be brought into balance. read more

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