by Jessica Kisiel | Dec 11, 2013 | Sports Training
Before any athletic practice or competition, you’ll often see rows of athletes lined up in the training room having their ankles, wrists or other various joints taped so they can go play. If you’re like most athletes, you don’t think much about it...
by Jessica Kisiel | Aug 2, 2013 | Personal Wellness
“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...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 26, 2013 | Posture and Technique
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....
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 24, 2013 | Sports Training
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...
by Jessica Kisiel | Jul 2, 2013 | Posture and Technique
This is the second blog entry in a series on sitting health. Look at the left side of the image. Can you see the “C”? This “C” posture is a posture of pain and dysfunction. Unfortunately, it is also very common. In fact, it’s the most...
