by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 24, 2012 | Sports Training
As an athlete you are driven, have goals and want to achieve. Many of us are in the habit of pushing our bodies to the brink of collapse, injury or sickness to succeed. Our taskmaster inside, sometimes called our sports gremlin, scares us into making bad choices...
by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 20, 2012 | Personal Wellness
Losing weight is hard. There are many factors that contribute to excess pounds. In researching approaches to weight loss I have found the principles explained in “Intuitive Eating” by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. very...
by Jessica Kisiel | Sep 6, 2012 | Posture and Technique
In case you missed my article in the Los Alamos Daily Post. There are no sports beyond our body’s capability! When we have pain playing a sport though, it is easy to blame the activity for our pain. Running, the primary functional movement our body was...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 23, 2012 | Sports Training
Proprioception is defined by Mosby’s dictionary as “the kinesthetic sense. The sense that deals with sensations of body position, posture, balance, and motion.” Simply put, it is your ability to feel your body’s joint positions and movements in space....
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 10, 2012 | Sports Training
1. Embrace Your Competitor When I read about this strategy in Running Within by Jerry Lynch and Warren Scott I was intrigued. I had always seen the other women in my races as rivals to be beaten and crushed, not embraced! Lynch and Scott describe how anger...
