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Focus Friday: The Single Leg Stiff-Leg Deadlift
In the New York Times today, Gina Kolata fights through the piles of misinformation about how to heal an injured hamstring. Coincidentally, I just got a question about the single-leg sti...
Just Do It...Seriously
I have a neighbor who's struggled with his weight for decades. A former high school wrestling champ, the usual adult pressures of career and family (he has five sons) drew his attention away fro...
Fitness: More than Muscles
Last weekend I attended a performance by the Peking Acrobats, and good GOD those people are amazing (here's one of their stunts; here's another, but on video much of the effect is lost--presumably bec...
More Smart People at Perform Better
A couple of years back, on my old blog--which is really beginning to feel like a long time ago now--I wrote about a seminar I attended in Chicago put on by Perform Better, a fitness equipment/educatio...
Own Your Movements
Gray Cook is just full of wisdom, and one of many things he said to me the other day that stuck was "Own your movements." In other words, pay attention to what you're doing. Practice compl...
A Bridge on the River Fitness
Let's say someone asked you to build a bridge. They tell you your bridge is part of a walking trail and only has to stand up to foot traffic, so you build a really cool rope-suspension bridge th...
Fun With Mobile Joints
Probably most people reading this are familiar with the whole mobility-stability continuum, but I'll briefly break it down for you here (Mike Boyle and Mike Robertson have good articles on it her...
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