As a CHEK Professional, how do you inspire change in your clients? Do you show and explain the many benefits of change in vivid detail? Do you assign clients homework in hopes of laying a foundation for a better, healthier life ahead? Is it being prepared for every...
One of the toughest and most consistent challenges CHEK Professionals face with their clients is how to work with their defensiveness. Because everyone is defensive about something. But defensiveness doesn't have to be an insurmountable obstacle to change as CHEK...
You don’t know what you don’t know. This may sound a bit confusing unless you have a mentor - a trusted professional you can rely on when you need guidance with situations you may never have experienced before in your practice. The value of having a mentor is an...
Do you or your clients suffer from nagging shoulder injuries or problems due to instabilities with ligaments or tendons? When you’re trying to rehab problems like these, you may want to start with rhythmic stabilization, a technique I learned about many years ago...
A number of you who follow my work and have read my book, How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy, probably know a lot about eating the right foods. Sometimes, however, it’s good to be reminded about the basics of healthy eating and how to protect your body mind from harm,...
If you’re really in tune with your body, you’ll know when the time is right for you to exercise and when it’s time to rest. But, what if you’re not sure? Sometimes, you’ll arrive wherever you train and feel good getting there, but when you start exercising you may...
Wrist straps remain the go-to option for many people when they do chin-ups, bent over rows, dead lifts, low rows and other exercises that require lifting heavy weights in the gym. Relying on wrist wraps to support your grip strength is one thing, but are you using...
Zone Exercises are designed to move energy through different regions of your body. What’s unique here is that zones are areas where we want to bring our intentions, awareness and energy through breathing. When I developed Zone Exercises based on the anatomy and...
The flexor chain encompasses the many muscles that flex the body or bend it forward, which is why you need to keep it as flexible and supple as possible. However, many people forget or ignore that advice as they maintain that muscular, sculpted “six-pack” look....
When thinking about the tools people use to tap into healing and spirituality, faith (or belief), prayer and meditation rise to the top. However, many folks have the mistaken perception these elements are virtually interchangeable and that all three are equally...
As we inhale, the normal pattern of abdominal wall action is such that with inhalation, the abdominal wall should relax and expand so the diaphragm has the ability to push the organs downward. This is an essential means of creating negative pressure in the lungs to...
In our 24/7 society, most of us spend so little time with our community of friends, our “tribe” of real people who feed our human need for support, motivation, change, acceptance and love and allow us to give it all back to them freely in return. Instead, we spend way...
