In this episode of The Lifetime Athlete Podcast, I discuss my recent antelope hunt. It’s an interesting story of challenge, humility, and gratitude. No matter what your life pursuits may look like, the objective is the same for all of us…keep doing what you love for as long as you can! This podcast was brought to you by The Lifetime…
In this mailbag episode we discuss several questions from our listeners and Lifetime Athlete community. Should you sign up for an event in the future to keep you motivated and consistent in training? Or should you wait until you are nearing peak shape to pick an event? When a muscle feels tight, do you stretch it, stretch elsewhere, or look…
In this Physical Therapy Basics episode of The Lifetime Athlete Podcast, you are getting the complete guide to stress fractures. What they are, how they occur, and how you can most effectively prevent and manage them are the highlights of today’s show. This information may be especially useful right now during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many athletes are practicing social…
Exercise is essential for maximum health and optimal function through the lifespan. Unfortunately, and despite our best intentions, we are occasionally sidelined from our exercise endeavors by an injury. This usually doesn’t mean the end of our fitness or athletic careers, but having an understanding of what’s going on — and what we should do about — an injury, can…
Life happens. Injuries happen. But that’s not the end of the world. You can still make progress in fitness and athletics when you are injured…you just have to be creative and intelligent in your approach. There truly is a way when there is a will, and this show explains all about how to train with injury using the Orthopedic Workaround.
Physical therapy basics are the fundamental elements of training and rehabilitation. They are the bedrock of Lifetime Body products and services. Using a strong foundation in anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics, we can analyze human performance. Movement dysfunction can be identified, and the root causes of physical inefficiencies can be overcome. That’s what this show is all about.
Chronic injuries can plague our efforts to reach higher performance levels and to train in a pain-free manner. In this episode we discuss some of the underlying principles of movement dysfunction and management. More details are also available in the recent article I posted on this subject.
In last week’s article we looked at acute injury, as well as the cellular mechanisms and management progressions associated with damaged tissue. We recognized acute injuries as instantaneous, event-related episodes and gave some examples of how our bodies, and minds, deal with those situations. Now we are going to examine chronic injuries. This will benefit from some defining and also…
