Do you know the difference between passive range of motion and active range of motion? And do you know why it’s vital that you have both in adequate quantities if you want to be mobile, injury-resistant, and strong? Most people don’t know that there is more than one kind of range of motion (ROM), so[..]
When the healing journey is going to be a long one, how you handle it will influence whether the journey is easier, better, more effective…or not. In this post, I’ll share my own story of how I handled healing after a serious ground fall while bouldering. Whether you’re healing an injury, ridding yourself of aches and[..]
Sitting on a bench outside the coffee shop, Coach Dan and I had just wrapped up a successful Unbreakable Body workshop weekend, and the conversation turned to what we get out of our own fitness practice – the learning, the workshops, the coaching, that we pursue for our own practice – beyond the “usual” results of[..]
In Part One of this post, I shared the first two mobility myths with you. They covered foam rolling and self massage tools, as well as stretching. If you missed those, you might want to click back to Part One and read that first. In today’s Part Two of this break down of common myths[..]
If you wanted to strength train, you wouldn’t use jogging as your primary form of achieving that. Because you know that’s not how ‘building muscular size or strength’ works. And yet, you might still be doing things to ‘improve your mobility’ that aren’t actually creating the changes you’re seeking. There is so much misunderstanding around[..]
