Note- This article is referring to non-serious injuries, like muscle strains, low-grade back, shoulder, and knee pain. This should not be mistaken for medical advice as I do not wear a white coat. Being 51, a former weekend warrior and … Read More
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Life is a game of Snakes And Ladders
Remember the board game Snakes and Ladders? You roll the dice to make your way up the board. If you land on a ladder square you climb the ladder to get to the finish line faster, but you got to … Read More
5 Mobility Exercises For Better Movement
5 mobility exercises to get you rocking and rolling When you were a child, movement came naturally, and even without thinking you could run, jump, bike, and sprint. You were a constant blur of movement. Now, as you have gotten … Read More
4 Ways To Exercise When You’re Sick
I’m NOT talking about being sick in the head, insane in the membrane, or having a screw loose. Although I’ve been accused of this a time or two because of my obsession with Chuck Norris. But I and Chuck are … Read More
Coordination: The Neglected Part of Fitness
Improve your overall coordination with these exercises. Being a tall lanky kid, I never thought of myself as coordinated. I was all arms, legs, and clumsy. And I still am. I’ve lost count of the amount of stuff that has … Read More
Exercise Therapy
Exercise is great for mental health and for some it acts as therapy. No matter what you have going on, doing your favorite exercise puts you in the moment and puts all your troubles in the background. A lot of … Read More
3 Ways To Be More Consistent With Exercise
To get better at something or to achieve your goals the word consistent comes up a lot. You need to do it often because you cannot start, stop then start. Or start, avoid it for a while and then get … Read More
Trust The Process
Trust the process is a key factor with your health & fitness Results are paramount in my profession and when clients are not seeing the results they’d like, their trainer will sometimes utter the words ‘trust the process.’ But what … Read More
5 Triceps Exercises For Health And Vanity
Although it doesn’t look like it, triceps is one of my favorite muscle groups to train. But before I get into it, here’s a story on how my fascination with this muscle group started. Early one morning I was sitting … Read More
When Things Don’t Add Up Start Subtracting
Adding and subtracting. Wasn’t this drummed into you during primary/elementary math class? And for the most part I enjoyed math until algebra and then it was all downhill from there. But adding, subtracting and multiplication, they were my hey days … Read More