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Have you ever received an answer to a question that feels, empty? I.e., light on facts because, perhaps, the provider of information doesn’t know the answer, but feels dutifully obligated to remain the figurehead know-it-all? When working at Equinox, I experienced such from a high-level trainer when inquiring as to whether or not one’s secondContinue reading “Second Wind. Real or Imagined?”

Like many a child before me, my deciduous teeth fell out in order to make way for permanent ones. As I impatiently waited for a newly minted lateral incisor to reveal itself,  curiosity was met with crickets, for one never did burst out to fill the glaring gap in my mouth! Self-conscious, I immediately bookedContinue reading “!SORE!”

A former client of mine is hypermobile; meaning, range of motion in his joints far exceeds that of the average person. Once an avid Olympic-style lifter, and therefore, a staunch advocate for moving heavy weight, a multiple-time subluxed (dislocated) shoulder and torn Achilles, are what dragged him before me. An explosive movement known as theContinue reading “Hypermobility: What It Taught Me About Sciatica.”

I’m a medicine man at heart; therefore, I became plenty obsessed when I began getting a check with a Healthway Natural Foods logo on it back in 2011, despite my meager pay fitting into a bank that was piggy protected. Why then would I feel so intensely connected to work for a companies’ ache toContinue reading “Oh My Gosh It’s, Probiotics!”

Unlike bone and muscle, where estrogen improves function and strength of both, depending on the amount in one’s body during a particular phase, it is in the decrease of stiffness in one (ligament), and in the increase of rigidness in the other (tendon), where performance takes a hit, and injuries arise. Simultaneously, during points inContinue reading “The Female Conundrum”

The Effect of Negative Affirmations Back east in D.C., my clinched jaw was grinding down on its last nerve. A client, who, despite having achieved a level of progress once thought to be unattainable, rendered it impossible for me to bite my tongue, turn a blind eye, or hear no evil, as he careened forthContinue reading “Your Body Can Hear You”

A Lifelong Diet for All! Inside the layers of your own consciousness, ask yourself: Dieting. When you were—or are on a program now, or are one who juggles between the latest fad diet, to relics of the past, at any point during your process, did you experience happiness? I don’t mean happy with the results,Continue reading “Intrinsic Nutrition”

 Aging & Loss of Blood Flow So the question is, why, universally, are the extremities of the human body, specifically the calves and forearms of the elderly, routinely ignored and not zeroed in on by those who exercise? This phenomenon pertains to all ages; though such neglect from the older population is quantifiably more detrimentalContinue reading “Sarcopenia”