We focus so much about the quality of the foods you should be eating — organic or as close to it as possible — for your health that we neglect to delve into the challenges of consuming too much or not enough food. In this video, I want to do a quick dive into food...
Having challenges with maintaining proper posture and awareness during your workouts? When I still had a full head of hair (MANY years ago), I developed a simple technique utilizing a weighted bag like the kind you can find at a sporting goods store that sells scuba...
During this short series on the problems with mouth breathing, I’ve demonstrated how it can affect you from the psychological and physical sides of the equation. For this final video, I want to examine the challenges of mouth breathing from a biochemical perspective....
Stretching the body is both a science and an art, especially when it’s done carefully and deliberately. What’s more, if you really think about it, stretching can be considered a form of mobilization and vice versa. I define stretching as the normalization of muscles...
Over the years, I’ve been asked by lots of people who enjoy doing deadlifts what specific training they can do to get to that next level (more than 315 pounds or three plates per side) that separates the men from the boys.If you want to really improve your...
People ask me all the time what things they need to do create a better future for themselves and their families. Before looking ahead, however, it’s time to examine what brought you to the place where the present has become so murky that you’re questioning the choices...
In part 2 of my series on Mouth Breathing, I described some of the psychological factors that prevent you from breathing properly. This time, I want to share two very common physical problems related to mouth breathing from the physical end of things, including one...
When people get started in the fitness profession, they are exposed to lots of theories (unless you’re a CHEK Academy student) like the benefits of using a foam roller. Examine the research and you’ll learn pretty quickly that the positives and negatives run about...
Most people understand how the psyche affects the nervous system, but really don’t appreciate how it affects their breathing. In part two of my series on the challenges of mouth breathing (find part 1 here), I explain the common psychological causes behind it in much...
Our lives are so friggin’ easy. Remember the days of fax machines and phones connected to landlines and computers that required disks to operate them? It wasn’t that all that long ago, and I bet you don’t miss those times very much either. Now, we can send messages...
This week, I want to share the washing machine, an exercise I’ve been doing with this nice, old and dirty 16-pound medicine ball for such a long time that I don’t remember whether I developed it myself or learned it from someone else! If you haven’t figured it out by...
Whether you like or not, all of us live on a health tightrope. Either we’re walking on that tightrope or falling off and trying to climb back on it. Life is very much a long string of falls and recoveries, and it’s those very experiences that help us (hopefully)...
