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DIY Mobility - Enhance Your Flexibility Training
Have you approached your flexibility training in ways that employ techniques to enhance the time you spend stretching? You can actually do some fairly simple but effective tweaks next time you stretch to get a little more out of each stretch and perhaps open a window for some improved range of motion. You may also be able to then engrain and train that new ability. Some of this works by somewhat “hacking” your nervous system a little.
In this week’s DIY recovery practice, we review one technique called proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF). Yes- it’s a mouthful and goes by other names- and used in other ways- but the gist is the same simple technique and can be used in MANY different stretch and mobility routines.
Give this demo on the front of the hip a watch and see if you might connect with how to use it here and elsewhere to get a little more movement and range …
Emotional Eating + What Can Help
The pull to numb or avoid unpleasant feelings is a universal human experience, yet the ways we choose to cope can significantly impact our health and well-being. Today, we're zooming in on food, not just as sustenance or pleasure, but as a common numbing agent for those grappling with emotional eating issues. There are indeed many things you can do to make things better and change your relationship with emotional eating and food. The most impactful interventional step I have ever encountered is mindfulness based interventions (MBIs).
Health & Fitness Philosophy- Exercise Nihilism: Why What You Do Doesn't Matter, But Doing It Does
Do the shear number of exercises out there - let alone the myriad schools of movement they fall under - ever make you wonder if there is a best way to get the results you want? We are not suggesting that the exercises you select don’t matter at all, but you may be putting too much thought into them and whether they are best for you. In the end of the day, many exercises (and even ways to exercise your body) may be easily swapped for each other with similar results. This is especially if we are talking about just staying healthy and fit for the long haul vs being able to do the most single leg didgeridoo pistol squats (yes- I made that up).