The other week I posted a message with my case against personal trainers. (If you missed that you can read it here.) That contrarian perspective yielded a lot of response, but people agreeing and disagreeing. Today I specifically want to share a message from Tyler I’m a personal trainer and …
How to Fix Chronic Pain?
Travis asks… “You mentioned emotional/mental blocks to healing. This is the great question: what to do to prevent or redirect chronic pain? I’ve watched so many folks go through knee/hip replacement surgery in my life and also celebrities and aging athletes. The great question is what causes and sustains pain. …
I Hurt My Back…
It happened! For the first time in something like eight years I hurt my lower back. (Methinks that’s a pretty good run.) Was it from kettlebell juggling? Was it bent pressing a heavy weight? Was it doing arched back handstand pushups? None of the above. It was simply cleaning a …
When Getting Injured is a Good Thing
This is kind of funny… And it’s happened more than once in a similar fashion too. So, I’m filming the Intuitive Mobility course. Module six, or the bonus module, is about using the Intuitive Mobility practice in order to fix pain and injuries. I’ve touched on elements of this here and there, …
How to Heal Injuries Mentally
We will be addressing using some of this stuff around injuries. Basically, the way I look at injuries, most treating of injuries is done on the physical level. I feel that it is important to get all of the different levels, including the mental and the emotional side of things …
How I’m Healing My Shoulder
The other week I told you about how I injured my shoulder in a Thanksgiving football game (actually playing it, not just watching TV). Based on what’s happening there is likely some tendon and/or ligament damage. If it was just the muscles it would be fine by now, but its …
Fixing Injuries for Good
Over the past few months I’ve been specializing in working with a number of people on injuries they have. First off let me say I’m not a doctor. Truth is, my anatomy skills, aren’t even the best. If you ask me about muscle attachments you won’t get very useful answers. …
Podcast: Injuries and Healing
I have to be 100% honest with you. I hurt my low back and I did it with kettlebell juggling, something I proclaim as making you more injury proof. And I still believe this. This podcast is all about injuries and what you do to heal them. [display_podcast] So in …