Personal Training: Maximize Your Bodies Natural Ability to Adapt

March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Old " No Pain, No Gain" Approach To Exercise Is Not The Way To Train! Most personal trainers and fitness facilities adopt the "train my clients until they can't move" philosophy, which has resulted in injuries, poor performance and poor adherence to a fitness and wellness program. When applied properly, exercise is invigorating, feels good, and should not impede on your everyday life. "Should not impede on your everyday life", we at RPM Therapy never gave much thought to this until recently, we have a massage therapist on disability right now because some personal trainer did impede on … [Read more...]

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Alkaline Water For Better Health

March 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Alkaline Water And Its Health Benefits Are Now Available At Roman Paradigm Massage & Therapy! Your body is full of toxins from processed foods, soda drinks, coffee, sugar and pollution from the environment. This creates an acidic body, a good source of alkaline water can help your body to remove or fight off these harmful toxins and bring your body from an acidic environment to a more alkaline one. From the book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water: You Are Not Sick, You Are Thirsty!, Don't Treat Thirst with Medications!, "Water’s most important function is its energy generating … [Read more...]

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Get Post Event Massage For Muscle Recovery

March 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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So You Just Finished That Half Marathon, What Are You Going To Do Now? Go Get A Massage! Whether you just ran a half marathon or if you just finished with an 8k run such as the one happening this weekend called, 408k "Race to the Row" run; a post event massage can increase circulation, decrease muscle soreness and fatigue. In-addition, it helps to increase range of motion and reduce the effects of delayed onset muscle soreness is also an added benefit. Causes of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness: The delayed muscle soreness is generally at its worst within the first 2 days following a new, … [Read more...]

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Runner’s Performance Package Now On Sale!

March 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
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You Will Run More And With Less Pain With Our Runner's Performance Package! Most of the runners that we see at Roman Paradigm Massage & Therapy come in after receiving their running injury.  Almost every single time we found the problem to be the terrible too's; too much, too soon, too often, too fast, and too little attention paid to pain. Your body is enduring physical trauma when you run. Run maintenance is essential for injury prevention. Now you can get that run maintenance done here! Pain, however undesirable, serves an important biological function acting as a warning signal that … [Read more...]

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Massage Therapy Fact Sheet And What It Means To Me

March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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In 2005, massage therapy was projected to be a $6 to $11 billion a year industry. AMTA estimates that in 2010, massage therapy was a $12-17 billion industry.  This is very encouraging news to me, simply because it means to me that people are now taking a pro-active stance on their health and not just relying on the medical healthcare profession for a prescription of some drug that will only treat the symptoms, not the cause. I take alot of pride in what our massage business has to offer, we are helping people change their lives and their way of living one-person-at-a-time! Most of our … [Read more...]

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Are You Over-Training? Here Are 16 Signs That You Are!

March 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
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In Your Pursuit To Be The Best, Have You Lost Your Motivation To Train? If So, Chances Are, You Are Over-training! Many people train their bodies to the point that they are stressed-out and are actually making less and less progress with each and every visit to the gym. Over-training is very common and happens frequently among weight-lifters, runners, cyclists and athletes. And it occurs when the volume of your workouts and intensity exceeds your body's ability to recover. Predicting the onset of over-training is nearly impossible because everyone's body is different. And everyone will … [Read more...]

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Know Your Massage Therapist: Terry Rowe

February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Are You Suffering From Chronic Tension Headaches, Migraines Or Fibromyalgia? If So Book Your Massage With Terry Today! After 3.5 years in the massage industry it gives Terry great joy to see his clients leave with smiling faces. He enjoys sharing his knowledge of the human body with clients, colleagues and anyone else that is willing to listen. He developed an interest in massage while having serious knee and hip pain that prevented him from sitting easily. The only relief he got was when a massage therapist worked on him. Massage Techniques Used By Terry: Clinical Deep … [Read more...]

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Epsom Salt For Muscle Soreness, Inflammation And Stress

February 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
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An Epsom Salt Bath After Your Massage Session Is Not Only A Wonderful Experience But It Is Also Therapeutic One! Have you wondered why, your massage therapist suggest that you to take an Epsom bath after your massage? If so, watch this video below to understand the important benefits of this little luxury that has many healthy benefits. Epsom salt, is high in magnesium. And magnesium is the second-most abundant element in our body's cells. It helps to regulate more than 325 enzymes and has a role in many bodily functions, from muscle control, it reduces inflammation, it helps with the … [Read more...]

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Corrective Exercises Will Cement That Massage Work

February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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TRX Suspension Training Is Now Here! Make Your Body The Machine! TRX is a functional movement training tool. But you can also do conditioning, strength and corrective exercises as well. This combined with your therapeutic massage work that you receive from Roman Paradigm Massage & Therapy is a perfect compliment to each other. This is where the fitness and rehab industry is heading. Gone are the days of just training muscles in isolation and getting stretched. We want to know how well do you move? And is this poor movement pattern causing your pain and dysfunction to begin with. We … [Read more...]

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Posterior Chain Muscles Their Importance And Function Explained!

February 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Glutes Role In The Posterior Chain Muscle group

The Posterior Chain Muscles Are The Ones That, You Complain Hurt The Most! At Roman Paradigm Massage & Therapy, we spend the most time working on the posterior muscle group, it is also the group of muscles that our clients reach for the most when describing their pain. Most people do not know this but it is usually the tight muscles in the flexor chain that need more work; its these muscles that are most likely causing the pain in your back. Why? Because the flexor chain muscle group "pulls" the posterior backside muscles long and weak. And we spend most of our time in this "flexed … [Read more...]

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