Stretch & Strength
In my last post I spoke about Crisis or Complacency in the areas of fitness and nutrition. How we (USA inhabitants) seem to oscillate…
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Keep Moving
Keep Moving The CDC recently released the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. You can find the executive summary here. While…
Finding Your Team
There has been a resurgence of looking at how low back pain is currently treated and that’s a good thing! For years the go…
Coming to Grips with the Number
For the next six months, 6 to 60 I will be highlighting my basic philosophies on exercise, food and mental spirit. I’m calling the collection…
In Praise of Body Workers
Anyone who has ever had a tired or achy muscle calmed down by a knowledgeable body worker you know the magic of the moment…
Track Mania
Working in the field of health and wellness can be surrealistic at times these days. By that I mean we get caught up in…
To Sit or Not to Sit?
In 2011 I wrote a white paper on the negative effects of sedentary behavior. It can be found online here. Four years later, many…
Rational Fitness
Recently I taught a workshop about the importance of maintaining good mobility in the body as a form of injury prevention and general personal…
Experts & Nutritional Advice
As a wellness consultant and owner of a fitness studio I am confronted daily with individuals trying to lose weight. It is an omnipresent…
The Stretching Obsession
Everywhere one looks in exercise venues be that the gym, swimming pool, park, baseball field and even now the office, people are stretching. As…