Welcome to our blog—a space where we share tips, insights, and expert advice to help you stay active, injury-free, and confident in your body. From recovery strategies and exercise education to real client stories and behind-the-scenes moments from our clinic, everything here is designed to support your strength, mobility, and long-term health.
We are always on the lookout for nifty and neat things to share with our clientele… Today, the winner is the FREE app: NOTCACTI ! NOT WHAT?!? NOTCACTI a GREAT app for smart phone users that will help you on your daily quest to improve your posture and water intake! For those of you who…
A PHENOMENAL exercise to improve your core control is the Woodchop with a medicine ball or dumbbell. To execute the exercise: Get into a ½ kneeling position (you can narrow your base for more of a challenge) Grab a medicine ball, start from a high diagonal position, and “chop” it down to the opposite side…
The Olympic torch will have travelled 40, 300 miles on its way to Sochi, the longest journey for the torch ever! 40, 300 miles is approximately 80, 600, 000 steps! Way too much for one person to manage! However, we often see our walkers, runners and triathletes run between 15 and 65 miles per week…
The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, cholesterol level maintenance, weight loss, boosted immune system, proper digestion and regulated metabolism. It also provides relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV, and cancer, while helping to improve dental quality and bone strength. These benefits of oil…
Here is a simple recipe that can be used a side dish but also as a main dish. All you need is a knife, the requisite vegetables and your oven! for about 4 side dishes: 2 small eggplants (chopped and diced) 2 zucchinis (chopped and diced but not skinned) ½ cup of corn kernels (not…
This past December, we had a pretty heavy snowfall. While some of it melted, we can be sure that more of the white stuff is on the way and with the snowfall comes shoveling and MORE shoveling. But shoveling doesn’t need to equate to low back pain. With proper technique and precautions, you can keep…
Skiing takes its toll on knee and hip joints. If you were to watch a high level skier coming down the slopes, he/she is absorbing the bumps and deep snow by using their legs as if they were suspension coils, absorbing all impact while their upper torso remains virtually still. The Jack Knife is a…
We have mentioned it several times in our weekly fitness tips that the hip joints are designed to be mobile. What lies adjacent to the ball and socket joint is just as important; the knee and the lumbar spine and pelvis. These joints were designed to be stable joints. Therefore, it goes without saying that…
“ I’m skiing like a champ!” “ What are you working on to get stronger?” “ My flexibility!” “ Your what…? Really? Being more flexible makes you stronger?” Yes! Mobility will trump stability and strength every time! If your hips are NOT mobile then they cannot be FULLY stable and if the joint has issues…
“You put high heels on and you change.” -Manolo Blahnik As appealing as high heels are to some women (and to some men, seeing their women in them), they do change you once you put them on. The x-ray you see here demonstrates the point (pun intended!) When the feet are placed in a high…
