Lately, I have been working with a lot of clients who have special considerations ranging from diabetes to gout to osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis. Some conditions can make exercise seem like a difficult addition to a lifestyle. To all those who feel constrained, fear not! You need only understand the
I was watching the trailer for the new film “Everest” and something caught my ear. In it, a voice proclaims “Human beings simply aren’t built to function at the crusing altitude of a 747. Our bodies will literally be dying.” Hearing this quote got me thinking again about the question
When we experience chronic pain in our bodies we often have virtually no idea what to do about it. It is almost as if the pain is some foreign invador that appeared out of nowhere. This is how I used to think and from my experience as a personal trainer,
I just returned from a trip to Europe. Something that struck me when I lived there and of which I was reminded is the emphasis on physical activity. There is both a cultural awareness around being active as well as a solid infrastructure in place to support it. This is
I had a little flash of hippie thinking the other day while talking to a client. He asked me if his muskuloskeletal ‘issues’ were unique to him, or if everyone had them. I replied that everyone pretty much has the same problems, from chronic to acute injury, from diet to
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