Training Around Injuries #1: Hand/Wrist
As I've gotten older as an physician, coach, athlete, and human I have learned and unlearned many things. Science is constantly in flux,...
Motion is Lotion: Treating Pain With Corrective Movements
As we all know from basic physics, "an object in motion will stay in motion." The joints of the human body are no different. Injured...
Training Around, Not Through, Injuries
So you're in the gym killing it. You've been hammering away at this training program for 6 weeks and haven't deloaded. Your knee has been...
S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting
New year, new you, right? Well, the statistics would overwhelmingly argue against this, and to be honest, I'd agree that the odds are...
Does Diet Composition = Death Rate?
It's no secret that what you put in your mouth affects your health. New "health food" trends arise each year and subsequently go the way...
If You're Not Deadlifting, You're Wrong.
"There's no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlift!" Immortal words spoken by the great Jon Pall Sigmarsson (pictured here). I...
Movember
Every year, men (and occasionally women, no judgment here) all over the world grow out their mustaches to raise awareness for men's...
Grip Strength As A Metric For Health
A pretty well-done study out of Australia recently determined that grip strength better predicted 4-year mortality than blood pressure....
Getting Wal-Nutty Over Plasma Lipids!
Every day, people in both the fitness community and in the general population are looking for that next superfood or that new hot...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Not-So-Silent Killer
I see it every week in my clinic: a patient comes in fatigued, complaining about being sleepy all day. His blood pressure is mildly...
