It’s a common practice to do a few leg stretches before engaging in an athletic activity. You’ll often see a person standing on one leg and pulling their heel toward their bottom (quads), or [...]
I’d say for most of us though it helps to try and make informed decisions about eating more kale and fewer hot dogs. And it would help to know something about the mechanics as well as the living [...]
Oftentimes people tend to think of their injury as the result of a specific event, the one time they lifted something wrong for example. I tend to think of the injury event, the moment “it [...]
Is it better to “Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.” Or is better that we: “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and [...]
Sometimes it seems like an awful waste of energy to have to heal. We might start to resent the ways in which we weren’t born whole. Or resent ourselves for the damage we’ve done. There might [...]
It can be difficult for a person to figure out how much load to put through their body and when to stop. This is maybe why hard exercise has a reputation for being brutal and silly phrases like [...]
There isn’t just one type of touch. Massage is a huge field. It can be used for everything from providing comfort and pain reduction in a hospice setting, to treating either current or long [...]
When I started my journey of exploring my own physical potential through strength and fitness training, one of the things that impressed me the most was learning just how weak I was. One of the [...]
If you start with a goal that feels doable you’re limited to only creating goals that don’t stretch you too far, that don’t require deep change. It’s like being stuck inside the borders of the [...]
