A Different Way to Use, Train, & Treat the Knee (Part 1)

There are three hinges on the feature photo door.  It’s a strong front door, solid and meant to take some battering.  The cheaper, lighter, all-have-problems-closing-and-opening doors inside the house have only two hinges.  Weight-load divided by two, or weight-load divided Read more ›

Up Leg, Down Leg, and Arches Preference

Pairs.  Roles.  Asymmetry.  The body knows and the body has ways.  Understanding the differences between the halves helps you appreciate them.  One side isn’t ‘good’.  The other isn’t ‘bad’.  They hold a function within the system. Here’s a big picture Read more ›

Calming an Irritation (Fixing a Foot-Hip)

This post serves as a follow up to: A Path Towards Harm.  Otherwise titled: The things I did wrong when I didn’t pay attention or have compassionate patience.   The tag to this blog used to read, “fix yourself.”  But Read more ›

A Path Towards Harm

Some context.  I have been learning to be sensitive to signals of and mitigate pain for about a decade now.  My training revolves around feeling things out, noticing any off-ness, spending some time and attention there, and finishing the session Read more ›

Butt Strengtheners

As I mentioned in my glutes = core post, having a strong, functional backside is intricately linked to having strong, functional abdominals.  Assuming you’ve got your anterior pelvic tilt in check and are ready to start strengthening that booty, here’s Read more ›

Glutes = Core

“Your core is anything between your shoulders and your hips”.   I think I first heard this from the ingenious Charlie Weingroff.  It makes perfect sense.  There are your limbs and what your limbs connect to.  That interweaving of connections Read more ›