Yeah, there’s an obesity epidemic that is ruining the health and financial stability of our nation. And yes, kids are being pumped full of garbage that is being disguised as “healthy options”
I guess we should be glad that it is en vogue to protect kids from this scourge, although we have a long way to go. Even Michele Obama and Beyonce are on it.
The Let’s move campaign is a good start, but the nutrition piece really has to change. I will give you a link a the end of the post to an unbelievable video. It is over an hour but well worth your time if you want to hear the truth about high fructose corn syrup and other sugars.
I would be remiss if I did not tell you about Ryan Lee’s killer new system called Presentation Domination. https://dotcomlifestyle.infusionsoft.com/go/pds/a11593/ If you are involved in marketing a product or service (which is pretty much all of us) this system takes the guess work out and delivers. BIG TIME!
I now have the privilege of uploading videos to YouTube that are longer than 15 minutes. I am guessing that I have passed a certain number of uploads and maintained a positive status with You Tube. So basically I have not uploaded any iphone videos of a Bruins broadcast or anything like that. I did recently post a series of videos on You Tube giving a basic overview of the OPT Model over the course of five videos. Visit my YouTube channel if you want to see them http://youtube.com/theericbeard. You probably notice that I have been investing my time outside of my blog lately I logged in last week to post and spent an hour fixing the typos in my last post. Sheesjh! What a stinker! My apologies for letting that go out. The content was good but what a mess! So that is fit for public consumption and worth a peak when you have time
More importantly is that I uploaded an entire DVD of mine to You Tube. It is finishing processing right now. The DVD is actually the prologue installment for my DVD series Secrets and Staples of Training the Athletic Shoulder. (of course available at http://athleticshoulder.com ) it is 54 minutes long and has some greta stuff in it if I do say so myself. Please watch it and let me know what you think! I am confident that you will find it helpful.
It seems that I don’t usually get to posting on Thursday nights, but I’d like to get more regular with my blog. And no not to talk about increasing my fiber intake. I don’t have a video to share this week just some insights. (actually I just uploaded one for the edit!!) I have a client that I’ve been working with, who is a seventy-year-old avid tennis player. She is very open-minded to alternative treatments takes very good care of herself. And has recently been receiving physical therapy, stretch therapy, neuromuscular massage therapy, and seeing a chiropractor, for a shoulder injury. She had an MRI to quantify the damage to the shoulder and she’s laid off from tennis to let her shoulder heal. Actually she hasn’t laid off from playing tennis. She’s only playing left-handed now, and she’s the a right-handed player. Talk about dedication to tennis!
This woman has received acupuncture, used homeopathic remedies and mixed these approaches to health care with traditional medicine. Pretty much the perfect client. haven’t actually work with her for a few years but she’s back to see me to help with her shoulder. When I started to ask her about the treatment she’d been receiving, I was pretty happy. It sound like a good mix of therapies the compliment each other well. Once I performed some movement assessments, goniometry measurements, (specific joint range of motion assessments) and manual muscle testing, I found that there were several other areas throughout the kinetic chain contributing to her shoulder injury. I was a bit disappointed that none of the other practitioners that she was seeing were addressing these other areas. It sounded like the work they were doing was appropriate for shoulder, but the rest of the kinetic chain is not being considered. She had restrictions in dorsiflexion flexion, left sacroiliac joint dysfunction and other soft tissue restrictions. Just by releasing her left adductor magnus, left short head of the biceps femoris and encouraging some movement in her sacroiliac joint, she instantaneously stood taller and moved easier. She was excited and relieved that her whole body felt better. It always amazes me the, complexity yet simplicity of the kinetic chain principle. It’s true that sometimes we can’t see the forest through the trees, and I have made this mistake myself plenty of times. So the good news is is that this client will coming to see me for some soft tissue work and very specific corrective exercise programming to address her movement impairments and she will continue to see her other practitioners for localize work at the site of her injury. This is almost the best case scenario we have a specific diagnosis and qualified practitioners treating the diagnosis as well if someone else looking at the big picture. Now at 70 years of age playing as much tennis as this client is played, degradation of tissue is unavoidable. I’m not saying a the SI joint restriction caused her shoulder problem. It might even just be a response to the injury itself. I’m very clear however that does need to be addressed. And if we think about the fascial connections in the posterior chain of the body, the sacroiliac joint dysfunction and right shoulder dysfunction are not uncommon in this situation. We can extrapolate that further restrictions in dorsi flexion bilaterally as well as first MTP joint restriction bilaterally have contributed to her dysfunction as well.
I’m excited to get this client back on the court and playing tennis again…with the racket in her right hand. I’m not sure how long it’s going to take, but I know her love of the game will keep her moving consistently toward that court again.
I’m sure we’ve all experienced situations where other practitioners have get lost in the minutia of the condition. As corrective exercise specialists and personal trainers, we work with our strengths of just looking at human movement. We can’t diagnose, many of us can’t apply manual therapy techniques unless we are licensed to do so, but we can observe and identify movement impairments. We can restore muscular balance. We can activate inhibited muscles. We can teach quality movement patterns. We can make a huge difference. We can do so along with other practitioners who have the appropriate licensure and skill set to identify and treat specific injuries. or we can use this skill set skill set with someone who doesn’t have a diagnosed injury to enhance the quality of life, performance on the court or play time with their kids.
There are so many other people that we can learn from to get better at what we do. There are countless practitioners we can network with to learn more about the body. Just remember that human movement is human movement, and the kinetic chain is the kinetic chain. These basics will guide us in identification of dysfunction reeducation of the neuromuscular system, fitness programs and athletic performance enhancement programs.
That’s all for me tonight. Thanks for reading and here is to to a dry and sunny spring!
Was my last post during the Grammys? I guess while my wife is watching the show I get some time to blog away. The just announced the Oscar for best animated film, you know that Toy Story 3 was a slam dunk win there.
I have been busy with my day to day stuff and having fun with my family. I have a couple of You Tube videos to check out, one I uploaded last weekend on SMR pace and one this weekend on disassociating the spine and pelvis.
Self Myofascial Release Tempo: Most People Need to Slow Down!
Disassociate the Spine and the Pelvis (and spine and the shoulder)
On an unrelated topic, I got too skinny this fall and have been putting some weight back on over the last tow months and it feels good! Partly to have some more muscle on my frame and partly because I have had some fun getting sloppy with my diet! Enough is enough though, and it is time to curb the unnecessary caloric intake. I actually took my kids to the pool a couple of times over February vacation just to get them some exercise and have some fun and got a pretty good workout in a couple of time. Even though it was mostly just playing with them, it is easy to get the heart rate up in a couple of minutes in the pool.
This just in…Reese Witherspoon is presenting an award and her shoulders are jacked up! Here is a picture of her from another occasion, but you can see the same imbalances.
My wife gets so annoyed when I point this stuff out…but hey, there is a price for making my watch these awards shows…I get to analyze posture…So Reese has an elevated right shoulder and her left shoulder seems depressed…think she needs some corrective exercise! Imagine over time the headaches, neck tension and wear and tear on the shoulder joint over the years if things stay this way?
Alright, enough from me! I hope you are having an awesome life. The winter can’t go on forever:)
Rhianna, Eminem and Dr. Dre just blew it up at the Grammys.
After 2 straight hours of folding laundry while my wife was frosting cupcakes for the kids Valentines Day parties tomorrow I am sitting down and taking a “break”. My wife has had the Grammys on in the background the entire time. I paid attention to a few parts, like the Rhianna, Eminenem and Dre performance, Justin Bieber and Usher and when Lady Antebellum won a Grammy for the song “Need You Now”.
Did they win 3 Grammys?
What struck me was when Hillary Scott from Lady Antebellum was speaking after receiving the award. She said how her and the rest of the band’s life changed in the last year because of the success of this song. She broke into tears as the moment washed over her and she was wisked off stage. It reminds me of the power of a year. It has been said that most men overestimate what they can accomplish in a year but underestimate what they can do in a decade. I wonder what the last year of her life has been like? How hard has she worked? How many shows has she done? Interviews she has given? I can’t imagine.
What if we looked back even farther? Over the last 10 years of her life? How many bad songs has she sung? How many hours of practice has she put in? How many times has she wanted to quit? How many times has she sung to an unappreciative audience? During the last year of her life she has experienced exponential growth in terms of commercial success, but she has been laying the groundwork for much longer. They say it takes 10,000 hours to craft and develop a world class, elite athlete. That can represent a 10 year growth period. Most people only hear about the Olympic athlete during the Olympics, but they have built their opportunity to compete at the Olympics the decade prior. They not only train in four year cycles to peak for the Olympic Games, but some on eight year cycles to peak for two sets of games!
Not to mention a run at Dancing With the Stars!
So what does that have to do with us? Well, the old adage is true, you reap what you sew. The results that we have in our lives, with our clients, in our love life, in our bank accounts and with our health are mostly indicative of what we have done over the last number of years. Our ability to work with a varied and challenging client based is developed by researching issues that we are unfamiliar with and then actually using trial and error to figure out which approach is best for a certain individual. We read journals, watch webinars chat with other professionals to grow our knowledge base. It never ends. Think of the people who just “apply, apply, apply” what they have known for years and have never added to? I am sure there are some areas of our lives that we have either not added to or conversely added to but not applied what we have learned. That second part resonates with me. I have studied and researched information pertaining to several aspects of my life. It is always easier to learn about some aspects of life compared to to others and it is easier to apply information in some areas more easily compared to others as well. If you take a minute and think about it, what ares of your life have you neglected learning more about? If you think about work…for example…maybe you have studied plenty about corrective exercise but not much about supplements? Then on the other side of the coin, what ares of life or your practice have you neglected to apply this great information that you have spent time and money researching? I can think of a few for me:)
Anywhoo…here are a couple of videos that I have done over the last couple of weeks. One on basic TRX Row technique (dos and don’ts) and an SMR technique that can loosen up and mobilize your thoracic spine. Enjoy and Happy Valentines Day!!!
So High Fructose Corn Syrup is Bad, Right?
Yeah, there’s an obesity epidemic that is ruining the health and financial stability of our nation. And yes, kids are being pumped full of garbage that is being disguised as “healthy options”
I guess we should be glad that it is en vogue to protect kids from this scourge, although we have a long way to go. Even Michele Obama and Beyonce are on it.
The Let’s move campaign is a good start, but the nutrition piece really has to change. I will give you a link a the end of the post to an unbelievable video. It is over an hour but well worth your time if you want to hear the truth about high fructose corn syrup and other sugars.
I would be remiss if I did not tell you about Ryan Lee’s killer new system called Presentation Domination. https://dotcomlifestyle.infusionsoft.com/go/pds/a11593/ If you are involved in marketing a product or service (which is pretty much all of us) this system takes the guess work out and delivers. BIG TIME!
Here is that awesome video about sugar!
Thanks for reading!
Eric Beard
CEO A-Team
Corrective Exercise Specialist
AthleticShoulder.com
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