ARTICLES & INSIGHTS
Practical Information to Help You Move, Feel and Live Better.
There’s no shortage of fitness and health information available. The challenge is knowing what actually matters—and how to apply it to your own life.
Here you’ll find practical articles and insights on movement, mobility, strength, exercise, pain relief and staying active as you get older.
My goal isn’t to make fitness more complicated.
It’s to help you better understand your body so you can make smarter decisions about how you take care of it.
The K.I.S.S. GUIDE To Results
I was just painfully reminded of how important it is to keep things simple in life. Had an unbelievable workout on Saturday, only to awake on Sunday feeling as though I had been run over
by a truck -- repeatedly. Yes, I do typically feel my workouts a few days later; but this soreness was far beyond that "typical" feeling. So I traced my steps back to see what was different. What I realized is that I had tried out some new "exotic" movements in my warm-up to replace some of my usual movements. Doing my usual research, I came across some stretches and warm-up movements that were said to replace several other movements I was already doing. So I figured, hey, that sounds like a good idea, if I can save time and accomplish the same amount of quality work, why not do it. What I quickly realized is that these new (exotic) movements in fact did not work as well. They did not warm my body up properly nor effectively prepare me for my workout.
And of course being me, I started thinking about how this example of using the "new and improved" happens in not only when it comes to staying healthy, but in life.
Check out today's video blog post to see what I mean: