A year ago last June, I took the plunge and signed up for the first cohort of Chris Kresser’s Health Coach Training Program. It’s been a great year of learnings on many fronts, and we are about a week away from the course’s official ending. As I reflect on the course and my own development,[…]
Back late last year, I suffered from a severe nerve entrapment issue which started in my right arm and then began to mirror itself in my left. It also manifested itself in my left buttock which put *really* uncomfortable tingles into my left testicle (nope, not the good kind…!). In both arms, my front shoulder[…]
One of my clients is working towards a challenging marathon swim. I thought I’d republish part of an email here that captured some thoughts I’ve had over the years about building to a race and recovering properly: As mentioned, building towards races can take many forms. It can be a linear build to a peak[…]
Recently, I got this comment on one of my dryland recovery drill videos: Comment: When you are showing the dry land elbow position, your hand is dangling below and if there was water, it would be well below the surface. So I don’t understand how this exercise would translate when in the water. It seems[…]
Hey swimmers! Are you having trouble with your recovery? Finding it difficult to move your arm properly from the stroke back’s finish forward to the entry point? Many swimmers have difficulty performing the proper arm motion for freestyle recovery. Try the drill in this video and see if it can help you:
I learned of the Potato Hack in my health coach course. Apparently it’s been around for a long time: 1849 to be exact! Read more about its origins and its simple nature at Potatohack.com. I also bought the book, The Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified by Tim Steele, which helped explain a lot of things.[…]
Recently, there has been some decent press around the Fasting Mimicking Diet, (FMD) developed by Professor Valter Longo at the University of Southern California. The FMD is a way to fast for long periods of time but removing the need to eat nothing or only water; you eat minimally each day to gain the benefits[…]
I just encountered an interesting fact about visceral fat, which is that stress is a cause in the formation of visceral fat. How interesting this is, on a variety of levels. What is visceral fat? It’s the fat surrounding your organs, not under your skin. Even if you are skinny, you could have a lot[…]
Last year, I spent the bulk of it working on my Precision Nutrition Level 2 certification and graduated in November. It was an awesome course, very well run and organized. I got a lot out of it and it was worth every penny and the time I put into it. I highly recommend it and[…]
This week I had a client whose 2BK I was trying to tune. Overall, he was swimming pretty well. But something about his propulsion just wasn’t right and he was dropping hips on the breath. We came down to trying to fine tune his 2BK and found that – through me looking underwater at him[…]