A few days ago I went for a hike. I thought it would be fun to take my camera and share the experience and talk about why health and fitness is important. So I, and about 30 pounds of camera gear, headed out. Yeah, yeah. I have smaller, lighter gear but I really love shooting on this camera so I really wanted to take it. However, things didn’t go according to plan. Pretty much everything I could screw up I screwed up on this little adventure.

Hello again! It’s been a crazy, roller coaster ride these past 8 months. But I’ve learned a lot and grown a lot too! I want to share with you the biggest lesson this move has impressed upon me. Relaxing into uncomfort!

Tightness in the legs and hips creates extra demand on your knees. The more tension across the knee joint, the more wear and tear it receives. I’ve been dealing with some pain in my right knee for a while and it’s directly related to the tightness in my right leg. I’ve started addressing it and these are the resistance stretches I’m using to get the release I’m looking for!

As of 2018 forty-two percent of Americans were Vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D is an interesting vitamin because we actually have the ability to synthesize it. The catalyst for this is sunshine directly on our skin. Other than sunshine most Americans get their vitamin D from fortified foods. There aren’t many naturally occurring foods that are high in vitamin D.

I’ve done several videos talking about techniques for getting up off the floor, but I don’t think I’ve covered the why yet! What an oversight!!!! Today I’m covering why, even if you aren’t elderly or infirm, you should practice getting up from the ground.

Regular practice of movement skills is essential for maintaining your ability to perform them when needed. We sometimes only consider that with more advanced techniques like pull ups. However, it also applies to more overlooked techniques like getting off the floor.

Everything is a perishable skill, including things we think of as givens. In cultures, like much of Asia, where people regularly sit on the floor, the elderly are much more capable of rising from and sitting on the floor. It seems silly to many, but it’s an unfortunate truth the many, many people not only fear falling to the floor but could be seriously injured in the process.

As I cover in the video above, it’s much better to practice a skill regularly than try to recover it once you’ve lost it. Losing the ability to get up and down from the floor safely is a life altering problem!

If you’re like most people, you spend a lot of time at a desk or behind the wheel of a car. There’s a good chance you suffer from a tight neck, upper back, and shoulders. Today I want to share a pandiculation to release tight neck and shoulders.

I moved to Colorado in December, but it’s starting to feel like that’s not the case! I’ve been haunting Virginia for almost 3 weeks now. It was supposed to be a 5 day trip for Lauren to do some work and us to move the rest of our stuff to CO.