I have to work with my hands, sports massage is my craft and athletes are my canvas. I teach massage therapists and help athletes move better.
12/16/2020
โ๐ปSkin is sensory material. The more of it I use in a session the more information I pick up.
Iโve recently have had an uptick of manual therapists follow me. If this is you or you are interested in the field be sure to follow
Much of my content is siphoning of people who are smarter than me, letting it run through my dumb dark brain, and then hopefully saying it simply or at least accurately.
12/08/2020
If you achieve a desired outcome but learned nothing along the way your results will be temporary.
12/04/2020
Use more of you. ๐๐ป
A heavy contact point is information rich. You can feel tissue tension and joint play much more intrinsically.
I have also found that much like a hug a heavy contact point can have a calming affect on the client which can change pain perspective and a more confident feel from the therapist.
11/27/2020
๐๐ฅ๐๐ง a series of monotonous behaviors repeated over and over again.
Definition courtesy of
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11/26/2020
5PM with the Fam.
Happy Thanksgiving ๐ ๐ฆ
11/21/2020
Swipe โก๏ธ....โIf it felt like sh%t at 3 reps, 30 reps at lighter weight ainโt itโ
11/15/2020
๐ โThe ONE Thingโ
11/14/2020
Working on human hardware ๐งฌ ๐
09/10/2020
So often to train anything waist down we load either the top (squat bar) or the bottoms (leg press).
However the ankle weight gives you the advantage of wrapping the weight around a limb. This allows you to add speed and change of direction without disrupting the movement pathway.
They are also extremely portable.
You may be thinking โyes, but they are not very heavy. How will we get a good stress stimuli?
If you do your traditional training program and just mix in ankle weights randomly you will lose the intent and be unsuccessful.
If you are deliberate about when to utilize them in your training program and in what positions then you can drive in good purposeful training.
I like to start my athletes with acquiring active range first because most of my athletes come to me with an issue and I have found active to be safer as a starting point.
I coach them to not go beyond a position of pain and to yield right before the pain site before beginning the isometric work.
Every position we program has a specific intent. We do not try to acquire more mobility because it looks pretty. We are chasing a specific adaptation every step of the way based on our initial and continuing assessments ๐งฌ
I have a client who is a successful businessman and wants to be able to perform at his highest level physically.
I told him you can either have a career like an NFL running back and enjoy 4-6 years of high gear performance or you can play life like a golfer and accumulate wins over a long period of time.
If you have a six pack and are athletic but youโre in constant pain whenever you move how long can you keep doing the things you love? Or better yet how long can others count on you? Will you be able to perform when it is really counts?
09/07/2020
โฐ๐ฐ Time is the currency of the highest value we have and it must be spent everyday. There is no saving it for a rainy day. โฃ
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Iโm realizing that spending it in the fantasy of the things I worrry about and wishing for is the lowest return on my investment. Having actions and words that live in reality has yielded a greater return on my investment. โฃ
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Say what you want and hold yourself accountable to work towards it. โฃ
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To quote Teddy Roosevelt:โฃ
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"๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ต, ๐ช๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ด, ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ญ๐บ, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ข๐ต."