Results For Category: "Performance"

Dumbbels lifting at the gym

Getting upstream: shifting from reactive to proactive

I must confess, sometimes I experience a sense of social media-induced frustration. This frustration is often easily remedied by not looking at social media, but sometimes it comes up regardless....
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Geekery: Relative Stiffness and the Warmup (part deux)

In that same presentation where Coach Boyle reminded us of the useful practice of stealing smart people’s stuff to use with our own trainees—the topic was conditioning (not to be...
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Person under a blanket trying to get better quality sleep

Sleep, Your Performance and Building a Sleep Ritual

Are you getting enough? On a regular basis? Most of us aren’t. (Sleep. I’m talking about sleep). Do you stare at your phone, scrolling Instagram, playing a game or staring...
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When are you going to stop doing your PT exercises? (part one)

There’s a fascinating phenomenon that exists within the world of recreational circus arts and, depending on the background of the artist, it sometimes happens beyond the recreational level: people “do...
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Training Equals Rehab*: My Movement Check-Up

Sometimes, I think the gray areas are great. In this next installment in the ongoing diary of my “return to rehab” for my shoulder, I have officially entered a gray...
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My Movement Check-Up: Pain and the Magic of Movement

There were a handful of things about how my body was feeling that prompted my return to physical therapy—but I would not describe any of them as injuries. My shoulder...
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