In the warm final weeks of August while we were all enjoying some rare Seattle sunshine Dr. Kevin was working with the USA Swimming team at the Pan Pacific Championships in Gold Coast, Australia. When Kevin returned, boxes of Australian sandwich cookies and bags of licorice appeared in the back office. Along with the goodies […]
I have a hard time getting my mind wrapped around the fact that sitting is “dangerous” or bad for my health. My tail is firmly rooted in my car seat, desk chair, and couch at night. Of course, the couch might be a figment of my imagination with our two and four year old boys… […]
I woke up that morning with my head in the fog, a sluggish body and an uncontrollable sadness that competed with watching The Notebook on repeat. I wish I could have blamed it on a hangover, that would be easy. Instead, I was suffering from a severe gluten reaction. One of the top three worst […]
Congratulations! By taking action to understand what is ailing you and performing the steps to heal the cause, you are already on the comeback train! But what happens when you’re working towards getting healthy again but the results are slow and you begin to lack motivation? This is where the real challenge begins. How do […]
You’re marathon is 3 months away. You’ve been training hard, putting in higher miles, adding intervals, lifting heavier weights and consuming more calories than you would at Thanksgiving dinner. You’ve been trying to keep injury at bay with tiger tails, foam rollers and epsom salt baths. It’s worked so far, but it’s not enough. You […]
Sitting in at a desk all day could be causing more problems than you realize. The forward head posture and rounded shoulders from which many office workers suffer is often associated with a condition called Upper Crossed Syndrome. This condition can also be accompanied by headaches and neck pain, pain in the upper back and shoulders, and […]
As we learned from Part One of our interview with professional Spartan Racer Rose Wetzel, transition from the sport of running to the sport of obstacle racing can be backbreaking work. Even though the difficulty of training and time management is substantial, the hardest part may be staying healthy in a sport as inherently dangerous […]
Anyone who is familiar with historical Spartans (or even the pop culture spartans of recent movies like 300) knows that they were considered some of the toughest folks around. Although you might not know it when you first meet her, there is no better example of Spartan toughness than professional Spartan Racer Rose Wetzel. She […]
Why endure chronic knee pain from soccer, running, cycling, gardening and other activities of daily living when you could take steps to eliminate the problem? It is estimated that Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS) affects between 25-30% of individuals between the ages of 19-30 in a given year1 and between 50-85% of female runners will experience some […]
