This one may be more “unsolicited kvetching” than “unsolicited advice,” but… “To take someone who is sedentary, deconditioned, and/or has active injuries, and put them through conditioning/volume training regimens - this is a recipe for Injury! Oftentimes the person “helping,” ends up being worse off than if they’d not done the charity at all. But that’s what we do when we encourage deconditioned people to participate in most corporate fitness events. I’m not trying to be a

Traumatic joint injury happens. Sometimes it’s necessary to surgically correct a joint structure. Most people don’t understand what surgery usually does. Surgery doesn’t magically fix your joint problem. The idea behind many joint surgeries is, by making things worse at first, we can eventually make more things better later. What I am saying is understand how surgery works, so you get the most benefit out of it. Many people’s surgical outcomes are positive, but that “succes

I get asked this question at least once a week. It comes in many forms: “What’s the best exercise to keep me in shape?” or “I only have 30 minutes a day to workout, what’s one thing I can do?” or “what gets the most done in the shortest amount of time?” My favorite of all is: “Which exercise gets rid of this…right…here?” My answer is always “Move often – in all directions – to promote stability, mobility, balance and agility in ways that don’t compromise your structural or po

2D fitness is when you look at someone, working, moving, playing, training at a high level of success and you make assumptions about what’s going on inside their bodies. Life used to be pretty violent and short. Being able to lift heavy things, or being able to run fast, or being able to run for a long time, or being very powerful (a mixture of strong and quick) made your short, violent time on earth demonstrably better for you and yours. So people historically held people w