In today?s political environment, we often hear about outsourcing of positions and jobs in the workforce. We are often filled with images of large U.S. Corporation outsourcing to companies in India, China, or around the world, but the reality is that outsourcing does not require vendors in foreign countries. However, sometimes small and midsize business owners feel disconnected from this process, or they do not see how this process is a feasible technique in their lives. The truth is that small... More about: It is all about Focus

(Published in Technique Magazine and on various gymnastics related websites.)

Since so many sports, including basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, gymnastics, and of course track and field, require good running technique, coaches must concentrate on teaching proper running technique.

Most people and often even athletes and coaches take for granted that if they can run, they are performing efficiently, but this is often not the case. Even with professional ball players,... More about: Fun With Running: A Crucial Skill for So Many Sports Fun with Running

A great idea for path lighting using Solar Post Caps

Want a great project that will make you feel quite handy? You can make your own path lights using solar post caps!

Get yourself a solar post cap that will fit a 4x4 cedar post. Take an 8ft long 4x4 cedar post and cut it into 2 ft lengths. Next, get a 3 1/2 inch floor flange from the plumbing section in your local hardware store. In that same section, find a threaded pipe about 10 to 12 inches tall that will screw into your floor... More about: Want a cool idea for Solar Post Caps?

Babies through kindergarteners and the adults who love them are invited to participate in a free demonstration of international early childhood music program Music Together in the South Hills of Greater Pittsburgh. The class is led by Upper St. Clair High School alumna and Mt. Lebanon resident Daisy Klaber, Director of Household Harmony, where families come together.

Created in 1987, the research-based Music Together family class brings together twelve children and their parents or... More about: Come Together with Music

If you are like most people, you approach each New Year with wonderful intentions to improve your life and do more in the coming year. Then the New Year comes, and goes, and somehow those good intentions did not translate into new accomplishments. Of course, when that pattern repeats itself year after year, we eventually give up on the good intentions altogether and resign ourselves to mediocrity. DO NOT GIVE UP! There is wisdom and hope in the old adage, ?If you want something you have never... More about: Facing the New Year Head on!

Sport Specific conditioning benefits a lot more than just your sport!

By Wendy Tarlow, Fitness Together ? Fort Lauderdale, CPT

A true Sport Specific exercise program is built entirely upon the principles of functional exercise. Functional exercises are designed to restore balance, lengthen, strengthen, and coordinate movement patterns specific to the golf swing, to the swimmers stroke, to the sport that you are focusing on. Exercise programming and periodization will cater to... More about: Sport Specific Conditioning