This one’s from Paul at PainScience.com, sharing examples of appalling and harmful comments healthcare professionals have made to their patients. The comment section has plenty more. Here’s one: “You’re all out of alignment. We’ll need to schedule ten weekly sessions to try to get things back in place…” Or how […]

Things happen. Often randomly. We make up the reason because we don’t like open loops. -J

In my teens and 20s, all I cared about was my looks. That’s all I trained for. Well, that and my ego. Trying to punish myself to be the strongest and fittest person in the gym (I never was). My early 30s were about the same. Although with less ego […]

I was at a fitness seminar years ago, and one of the speakers asked that question. Being a room full of fitness professionals, about 99.9% of the hands went up. The 0.1%? He was eating a taco and couldn’t raise a hand. The speaker saw the hands go up. “You […]

“I don’t want to squat because it fucking hurts.” That’s about the first thing Julie said to me when we first spoke. She’d had a few knee reconstructions and now ambled away with about zero cartilage in both knees. She was adamant that she would never squat again. And because […]

There’s a good chance you need to change your daily routine. Not overhaul your whole existence. But to reshuffle parts of your schedule schedule. Cancel a thing or two to make space for 30-45 minutes a couple of times a week. There will never be enough time for everything. You’ll […]

That’s a direct quote from a friend. I am not the one to give unsolicited advice when someone clearly isn’t interested in my opinion. So I just left it. But you’ve signed up for my emails, and I take it as an agreement between the two of us that I […]

This recent study reduced patellofemoral pain in runners, but the adjustments are worth experimenting with if you’re dealing with knee pain in hiking. The first intervention that reduced the knee pain was about lessening the impact. They used all kinds of tech-related cues to make that happen, but the two […]

One of the most persistent fallacies of resistance training is that you must train four or five days a week to see significant progress in your strength. It’s simply not true. You can make incredible progress in just two 30-45min strength workouts a week. As long as you do it […]

With life’s never-ending demands from work, family, and the other dozen roles you juggle, setting ambitious fitness goals can feel like adding another pile of hay to an already full cart. It’s easy to dream big – to imagine yourself reaching that summit or tackling a challenging hike. Yet, reality […]