Expert advice on how to feel better inside and out.
“Your recovery time should be proportional to your training intensity level.” In the strength and conditioning world, it has been long understood that the warm-up and cool down is essential for optimal performance and recovery. In the athletic world, you will quickly realize that warm-ups and cool-downs all look different. Some people warm-up for 5 […]
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We hear a lot of different excuses for why things don’t get done. For me, I often hear excuses for why someone didn’t follow my exercise recommendations. By definition, an excuse is “something offered as justification or grounds for being excused; an expression of regret for failure to do something; a note of explanation of
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‘No’ is the new ‘Yes’. Time to identify your priority and respond “F**K YEAH” or “THANKS, BUT…” to any request. When it comes to reasons why we don’t get sh*t done, we are really good at ‘rationalizing’ a.k.a. making excuses. (read Mitch’s blog about the worst excuse of all time) “I lost track of time”, “The day
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The brain is the most complex organ in the human body. It produces our every thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world. The brain is like a central processing unit for our body; whatever is programmed into it will be directed to the necessary components of the body to be executed. 5 ways
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Are you feeling “stressed”? If you aren’t, it’s likely you have been at some point in the last few months. Stress can be good or bad – it can stimulate growth or drive degradation. We hear things like “Chronic stress causes elevated cortisol levels which increases your risk of many health conditions” and “meditation can
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When are cortisone shots appropriate? Evidence for rotator cuff tears/bursitis? Side effects/risks? Affect tendon integrity and contribute to tears/ruptures? MSK Conditions Adhesive Capsulitis Short term (8-16 week) improvements in pain and Range of Motion (ROM). Should recommend conservative treatment initially, adding oral or injected corticosteroids if there is not an adequate improvement in pain, ROM,
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When there is a reduction in joint capacity, i.e. amount of useable range of motion, movement exploration becomes confined and variability in movement is restricted. Continually using the same confined range of motion leads to the same tissues becoming repetitively overloaded. Acute and chronic overloading of tendinous tissue can lead to tendon pathology – TENDINOPATHY.
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“Cells live in a manifold existence. They are both complex biochemical information processing entities and mechanical objects that live within mechanically active environments. As our knowledge of the molecular mechanisms underlying mechanosensation and mechanotransduction improves, these mechanical and biochemical realities appear increasingly intertwined.” …. In therapy and training, an essential parameter we manipulate to induce
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“How do you program mobility training and rehab? How many reps and sets? Frequency? Intensity? How do you program FRC mobility training within a standard strength and conditioning program?” The answer? “It depends.” However, this answer does not provide us with any useful information to apply to our practices. So, I will follow this question
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