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Get Fit to Sit – 5 Exercises for Better Desk Posture
This is the third and final blog entry in a series on sitting health. If you have read my previous blogs on healthy sitting, you now realize that prolonged sitting is a health risk factor with negative consequences similar to smoking. Additionally, if you sit for an...
How to Sit Pain Free
This is the second blog entry in a series on sitting health. Look at the left side of the image. Can you see the "C"? This "C" posture is a posture of pain and dysfunction. Unfortunately, it is also very common. In fact, it's the most frequently assumed position that...
Energy Management Brings Success
Popular thinking says that time management brings increased productivity and success. Yet the authors of The Power of Full Engagement believe "Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance." Has this ever happened to you? At the end of a long...
Be Still to Improve Your Performance
With the abundance of self-help resources available today (more than at any other time) on so many health and wellness topics, why aren't we thriving as a nation? This is the essence of the question Garret Kramer posed to start his presentation, "Why Stillpower Always...
Is surgery the answer for your musculoskeletal pain?
In case you missed my article in The Weekly Sun of the Wood River Valley or the Los Alamos Daily Post it is reprinted below. When we hurt we often assume the worst. We become afraid and tentative with our bodies, telling ourselves that this much pain...
What Are You Afraid Of – Can You Handle It?
Do you fear... Injuring your body or suffering pain while participating in sports or activity (e.g. cycling, walking, cooking, weight lifting, gardening...)? Losing your job and having to relocate? Being last or not finishing an athletic...
What Causes Exercise Associated Muscle Cramps?
Although frequent and sometimes debilitating, exercise associated muscle cramps (EAMC) have been poorly understood by the scientific and medical community for years. Many of the theories about EAMC have been from anecdotal evidence, not controlled studies. ...
Injuries are Opportunities – Making the most of your time off the bike
Please enjoy this re-print of an article I wrote for mountain flyer magazine a few years back. Lying on the couch with fresh stitches in my thigh, as the ice pack begins to drip, my head is spinning from the pain medication. The sun is shining and I can see the...
Strength Training for Better Posture: Shoulder Shrugs
Use your time in the gym to improve your structural alignment, not ingrain poor posture and compensated movement patterns. Starting Position A staggered stance (1-2 feet apart) accommodates wider hips and larger dumbbells. The head, shoulders and...
Meet Jessica!
I believe we are designed to move and play throughout our entire lives. I don’t buy into the idea that we should slow down with age, or that pain, injury and physical restrictions are unavoidable aspects of growing older. So, here’s my philosophy. Our mental mindset, combined with the physical position and condition of the body that we bring into any activity (from walking to skiing to everything in between), determines our chance of hurting when we move. If we have a positive mindset, and if we have proper positioning and move with correct body biomechanics, all activities should be possible.
This is the goal I have for everyone: to overcome pain and limitations so you can Stay in the Game for Life!
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