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• October 20, 2014

  My Recent Thoughts On Cardio*

  While in school for a Health & Physical Education degree, I was fortunate enough to find the wise  Mike Boyle and Gray Cook, some wise men in the movement-based strength training world.  Something that I quickly picked up from these two is that it’s totally fine to change your mind when new evidence, information, or thoughts…

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  October 16, 2014

  Let’s Talk About Squats

  Who remembers that 1990 Salt-N-Pepa jam, “Let’s talk about squats?”  Now classic, it was in the groove and just made you want to move.  I’m pretty sure even the Luddites would find their hips moving to that beat.  Let this set the stage: Now you’ve got some great background music for the next 5 minutes.  Let’s talk…

• October 14, 2014

  This Will Make You Better: Cook Squat with Reach

  Let’s talk perspective.  At any given point in time, the position that you’re in probably isn’t that important.  Slide out to a broader timeline, and I believe that the positions that we’re regularly in can matter, especially when we’re considering making movement as reflexive and natural as possible.  If we can make our unloaded movement as…

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  October 1, 2014

  “Is Yoga Really About Exercise?” Maybe.

  Let’s talk about balance.  I really enjoy talking about balance in fitness circles, because there is often two tiers of balance discussion.  The first tier is obsessed with turning the FMS hurdle step into symmetrical 3’s, balancing on one foot on an airex pad for a few seconds, or relative acetabulofemoral movement during gait.  Let’s just…

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  September 25, 2014

  Don’t Follow Your Dreams (Well, Some of Them)

  You can do anything you set your mind to. It always seems impossible until it’s done. Obsessed is a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated. [Insert motivational quotes here.] Do you like motivational quotes?  I don’t.  Ya know those one-liners that are thrown around with the hopes of making you see sunshine in…