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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...
Transform Your Life with Supportive Affirmations
Your thoughts and internal dialogue creates your reality and influences your attitude, behavior, and outcomes. Take a moment to notice what is going through your mind right now as you start reading this article. You might be saying … I really should be working and not...
Myths of the Aging Physical Body
The messages you hear about aging and your physical body are very negative, provoking fear and dread of advancing years. You are bombarded with ads about drugs, surgery and the latest technology that can make you younger. Aging is inevitable! How you age though, is...
Strength Training for Better Posture: Assisted Pull-Up
Use your time in the gym to improve your structural alignment, not ingrain poor posture and compensated movement patterns. Starting Position Hand position on the bar is wide enough to create a 90 degree angle from the wrist to the elbow to the shoulder...
Does it hurt to run and play?
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. Sports and exercise shouldn't hurt. For many of us, though, moving our bodies creates symptoms of pain. Consequently, the circle of...
Overcome Stress by Invoking the Relaxation Response
The Stress-Response and Relaxation Response are opposite pathways of our autonomic nervous system. When one is engaged the other is inhibited. The Stress-Response activates the sympathetic nervous system while the Relaxation Response empowers the parasympathetic...
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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