by Kathryn Woodall, DC Wrist pain can put a real cramp in your style when using a computer is part of earning your living. Wrist pain makes work feel miserable, and it interferes with your play time, the kind of exercises you can do, and all your day to day tasks. It gets worse if …
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How To Avoid Soreness & Stay Fresh – Tips For Your Next Day Of Hard Labor
Spring to me is always the time to pull my camping gear out of storage and dust off my boots. While weekend hikes are great, I try to get one major expedition in per year. You’d think training up for such an excursion would mean pre-trip prep, but what you do on the trail is …
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Bodyweight Exercise for Martial Arts Part 1 – Upper Body Force Transfer
Bodyweight exercise has been used by martial artists for centuries to build attributes like strength and endurance. All traditional martial arts include specific conditioning methods, and in many cases these methods are considered so valuable that they are highly guarded secrets of the lineage. My own background of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu included the study of …
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A Pushup with a Twist
Let’s face it – no one likes repetitive exercise, and boredom a big reason why people fall off the fitness wagon. They simply get tired of doing the same old pushups and sit ups over and over and over again. If you’ve been hanging around this site for a while, you know we like to …
Improve Your Coordination and Agility with Bodyweight Exercise
Coordination and agility are hallmarks of movement mastery. Success in the dynamic sphere of sport is often determined by your ability to turn the off-season strength, endurance, and speed gains you’ve built into complex, improvised movements on the field of play. That requires a different approach to training, one that focuses on channeling these attributes …
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Exercise For the Desk Jockey — Has Your Desk Made You Chair-Shaped?
Do you spend a lot of time at a desk? Does your work trap you indoors? Have you got that “office worker hunch”? You know the one. Picture a guy, slightly overweight and sporting a pale fluorescent indoor tan. He walks with a slow shuffle, his pelvis tipped forward as though in a chair, his …
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Banish the Office Worker Hunch
Okay folks, it’s time to get back to office life, where we’re busy kicking holy hell outta overcompensations. You’ve had a couple weeks to work with the Shin Box Switch — if you missed it, first of all, shame on you. Second, pop over to the link, read the article, and get to work. You …
No More Wrist Pain: A Desk Jockey Special
If you slave away at an office all day, this one’s for you… We covered lower back and hip movements in an earlier blog and video. Check that out if your job is making you chair shaped. And we looked at the upper back and shoulders in the second installment. You should look that up …
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A New Twist on Core Training
What’s a guy or gal to do when they’ve already GOT 6-pack abs? What if the thought of another set of sit ups, crunches and leg raises has you searching for a high cliff to throw yourself over? Can you really have fun with this stuff? The trick to keeping your ab training interesting is …
Roll Off Your Belly Roll
Okay, let’s build the next step in your cool multi-dimensional core sequence… In the first instalment — the Arching Leg Thread — we worked on your ability to recruit your core in a twisting motion. That’s pretty complex, and it’s a lot more challenging than the ole “sit up and lie back down” routine most …