Whatever You Love Doing Is Leaving a Gap. Here’s How to Find It. I’ve got a client who ran, and running was the entire program. He got his steps from the run. He got his cardio from the run. His legs got worked by the run. One activity, every box ticked, and if you’d asked […]
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You’ll Eat the Vegetables Eventually. The Question Is Whether You Wait for the Diagnosis First. I have a retired client who was, for most of his life, a devoted picky eater. Not in a dramatic way. Just quietly, firmly, the same rotation of meals he liked, and a standing refusal of nearly every fruit and
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Stop Chasing the Perfect Version. Do the One You’ll Actually Repeat. I train a woman who became a grandmother a few months ago, and her hips have been giving her a rough time. She is exactly the kind of person who needs a little daily mobility work. She also could not make it happen to
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I had a client, an older woman, whose shoulders did not want to cooperate. We’d been working on her mobility for a while and making real progress, and she was fired up about it. She wanted to push. Add weight, chase the burn, actually feel like she was training instead of doing physical therapy homework.
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A client kept having flare ups. We’d tried backing off certain movements, adjusted his load, took things easier for a stretch. Nothing worked. The flare ups kept coming back and we couldn’t figure out why. So we did something different. Took a photo from straight on and drew a line from the middle of his
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A client of mine had back pain that had taken over his life. Not dramatic, acute injury pain. The kind that just quietly ends things over time. Golf was gone. Moving comfortably was gone. He wanted to get back to both. We worked together for a while. The problem was he couldn’t really buy in.
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