by admin | Jan 5, 2019 | Center, Efficiency, elasticity, embodiment, Food, Functional Patterns, functionality, Gait, Growth, health, Healthness, Human Performance, Intention, Motion, Nature, Nervous System, Nutrition, Optimization, Physiology, Posture, Power, Practice, Psychology, Rugged, Spatial Medicine, structural integration, sustainability, sustainable, Tensegrity, Train Rugged, training
Heading into the New Year means different things to everybody. Some see it as the time to make that change they’ve been wanting to make, and for others it’s another day in the life. I mean after all, you can make a resolution to change any time you want, right? Being...
by admin | Dec 16, 2018 | Back to center, balance, Biomechanics, Body Care, Growth, health, Intentional, Joint control, Joints, movement, Muscle balance, Nature, Nervous System, Optimization, Rugged, Spatial Medicine, Stability, structural integration, Tensegrity, tissue health, Train Rugged
A New World If there was a world you had never been to, and it was safe. Would you travel there? And if in that world there were answers to questions you have, and it was safe to investigate it, would you travel there? This is a concept I’ve been playing with for a...
by admin | Nov 29, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Biomechanics, Body Care, Bodywork, bones, core, Efficiency, Fascia, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, healthy joints, Human Movement, Joint health, Joints, Mental Health, Motion, Nature, Physical medicine, Physiology, Psychology, Restorative, Rotation, Rugged, Spatial Medicine, structural integration, tissue health, Train Rugged, TVA
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...
by admin | Nov 20, 2018 | aerobic work, alignment training, Breathing, Center, core, diaphragm, Functional Patterns, Joint health, Kinetic Chain, movement, Muscle Association, muscle function, Posture, Rugged, Spiral, structural integration, sustainability, Train Rugged
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...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | alignment training, deep core, diaphragm, posterior chain, Postural correction, Restorative, Rugged, Scapula, TVA
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...
by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy Trains, Athletic performance, Power, Practice, Rugged, structural integration, sustainability, Train Rugged, training, TVA
The second thing is that your spine health and joint health has got to precede everything else you’re doing. If you centralize your training on the integrity of your spine, you will see exceptional progress everywhere else. If your joints, or your spine, cannot...
