What Do Your Quads and Hams Have to Do with Your ACL?
You want your hamstrings on the backs of your thighs to be about 70-80 % as strong as your quadriceps on the front of your thighs.  This helps to prevent hamstring injury (strain), tight hamstrings, as well as ACL injuries.  ACL injuries often result from a stronger quad pulling on the ACL and tearing it.  This is in part why women have many times more ACL tears than men.  Their ham/quad ratio tends

This Sunday: Maximizing Wellness by Rearranging Your Toolbelt
Every few months, Libra Fitness likes to provide opportunities for people to get together for free or at cost to learn about wellness issues. In July, a group went to see the movie Food, Inc. and then met afterwards for grass-fed burgers at Elevation Burger for a lively discussion. This Sunday, Lynn Zipoy and Chris Heidel are excited to present the following workshop. We hope you can join us and will kindly share the news with anyone you think might be interested!

Thank You, Senator Kennedy
In addition to being a personal trainer, I have worked for over 10 years in the pharmaceutical research field, most of those years in Quality Assurance. My job is to make sure that laboratories and other companies working in pharmaceutical research are following FDA regulations and accurately reporting results. It’s not always pretty, but overall, drugs these days are much safer than they were before the 1970s. Prior to that time,