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ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND FITNESS BLOGS, WRITTEN BY PERSONAL TRAINER & BODYWORKER, ROB STEPHENSON
Bones: They’ll Be Here Long After You’re Gone
I studied with an osteopath who once told me, “listen to your bones…they’ll be here long after you’re gone.” There’s great wisdom in that offering. Our bones are, contradictory to popular belief, soft tissues that make up our skeleton. Inside of them we have bone...
Aerobic Capacity: Training’s Silver Bullet
Train Your Heart Aerobic training is often classified into the 'cardio' category of training. We automatically think of running, step classes, swimming, basically any activity that is longer than 15 minutes of continuous movement and work. These are all examples of...
Healthness: The Road Less Traveled
Tunnel Vision I work in a field called spatial medicine, also known as physical medicine. Your physical therapist, chiropractor, massage therapist, and CrossFit or yoga instructor does the same thing. Essentially we work with people to educate them on their bodies and...
Training Made Simple: Diving in Part 2
MAKING YOUR HEAD SPIN So the last post seemed anything but simple. I talked about your heart rate, arteries, and all the moving systems that are involved on a daily basis. My hope is that by the end of this post you have somewhere solid to start that you can then...
Keeping It Simple and Diving In: Part 1
THE MIND BODY-CONNECTION Humans are anything but simple when you start to dive into the intricacies of human physiology. Therefor when it comes to training and choosing a direction to go in, it can be hard to start. There are so many areas to improve at when it comes...
Training: What’s The Point?
EXTREME SCENARIOS We all may have that question from time to time, "why do I have to go workout?" And then there's the other side of the conversation, "when do I get to go workout?" To me its two sides of the same coin. One person loathes training, the other person...
How Deceleration Changed Me
GOING TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF: NOT SUSTAINABLE Deceleration is defined as the reduced speed or rate of something, or the act of slowing down. Slowing down, aka decelerating, changed me. And I intend to tell you how. What do I mean by 'changed me'? Well for starters,...
Training To Find Center
CENTERING DEFINED How do we define center? Typically people will say, "the middle of something". So what does it mean to "be centered"? One might say that being centered means not being high or low, mad or sad, right in the middle. And so if somebody can "be"...
Scapular Health
This one is a burner. Difficult to do alone, but incredibly effective for assisting in postural tensioning between the shoulders and the hips. Seriously, I have clients do this and they sweat, they shake, basically it is way harder than it looks. WHY DO IT: Because...
Rib Flare Part 2: Zone of Apposition
Apposition defined: the positioning of things or the condition of being side by side or close together. The zone of apposition refers to the relationship of the diaphragm to the pelvic floor. So essentially, the ribcage to the pelvis (though there are other...
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