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Are you an athlete?
With the business name, The Pain Free Athlete I often have people commenting that they are not an athlete and therefore do not qualify to work with me. I respectfully disagree. The word athlete in our...
Can you heal yourself?
During a discussion with a potential client, I made the statement that we could heal ourselves. She admitted that she had heard this wisdom but did not know if she could believe it. As she described it, she had been dancing around the idea but wasn't sure she was...
10 Things Posture Therapy Can Do For You!
This summer marks my five-year posture therapy anniversary. In this article, I reflect on what I have gained from the process and what you may also achieve through this therapy. I began my posture therapy career as a client in debilitating pain. Because I was...
Posture Exercises to Improve Your Golf Game
My secret is out! I'm a golfer! Yes, I enjoy hitting a little white ball around a well-manicured course. As an endurance athlete, I've received much criticism for my hobby. I love the completely different challenge golf offers as a skill sport. It is truly a mental...
4 Steps to an Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle
At the 2013 Sun Valley Wellness Festival, I attended a presentation titled "Leading the Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle" with Dr. James Rouse. Dr. Rouse is an accomplished naturopathic physician, triathlete, speaker, author, and more. After you finish reading this blog, I...
Book Review: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
"We can experience wildly strong emotions (provoking our bodies into an accompanying uproar) linked to mere thoughts." In other words, we activate the stress-response in our minds in response to our thoughts. This is the message shared by Stanford University professor...
Prolonged Sitting – the new health risk
This is the first blog entry in a series on sitting health. We are at war with sitting! And the research is mounting. The risks of sitting too much were likened to smoking in the Los Angeles Times Article, Don't just sit there. Really. that appeared last month. A...
Sports-Specific Training vs Training Function
In case you missed my article in The Weekly Sun of the Wood River Valley (pdf), it is reprinted below. Sports performance is the result of coordinated movement. Pedaling a bicycle, casting a fly rod, swinging a tennis racquet or golf club, and hiking up a mountain all...
9 Tips to Improve Your Strength Training Workout
Strength training is an important component of your fitness program. The resistance that you use can be in the form of machines, free weights, medicine balls, tubing or bands, and body weight. Regardless of how you apply resistance, here are some tips to keep in mind....
Meet Jessica!
I believe we are designed to move and play throughout our entire lives. I don’t buy into the idea that we should slow down with age, or that pain, injury and physical restrictions are unavoidable aspects of growing older. So, here’s my philosophy. Our mental mindset, combined with the physical position and condition of the body that we bring into any activity (from walking to skiing to everything in between), determines our chance of hurting when we move. If we have a positive mindset, and if we have proper positioning and move with correct body biomechanics, all activities should be possible.
This is the goal I have for everyone: to overcome pain and limitations so you can Stay in the Game for Life!
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