Today is the five year anniversary of my first Custom Strength client. I’ll be honest that I am very proud of myself for the business I have built since the first client I trained under my own business name.
Post-Concussion Symptoms During Training
Jim returned to training once his post-concussion symptoms were gone. He enjoyed several weeks of training that felt great, but then after one session, some of the symptoms returned: By the time he got home he felt nauseous and had to go to bed. This happened again the following session. I wasn’t sure what to think so I reached out to Richard Gregory (Ottawa Osteopathy) to see if he could suggest anything.
If I was to modify the FMS for my interests…
I have officially moved to implementing a modified FMS instead of the FMS. This post shows the changes I made, and the rationale. I would love it if the FMS would address some of these aspects going forward, although I would understand if they didn’t. There is something to be said for maintaining a consistent system, especially one that has widespread use across different organizations. That said – no system is ever perfect from the start, and sometimes it makes more sense to make the difficult decision to change than it does to stay the course.
What I Look for When Hiring a Personal Trainer for My Gym
Put another way: If you’re looking for work in a field where you don’t have a lot of experience, you’re effectively asking to be assessed on things like personality, potential, drive, and enthusiasm. Your actions in response to the reading list above speaks volumes about drive and enthusiasm.
To FMS or not to FMS: That is the assessment
I ran 15 people through the dual assessment. As mentioned in part one, I made notes after the assessments about what I learned from each for each person, but then I didn’t look at it again until this week as a means to reduce any pre-judgement I might have.
Corrective exercise is like coriander
If someone tells you they like coriander, you wouldn’t assume they only eat coriander. Coriander elevates salsas and guacamole to new heights that could never be achieved without it, but without the salsas and guacamole, it’s just a plant. Corrective exercise is the same way: Its presence elevates the training.
Tennis training: dynamic warm-ups and hip rotation
this post includes the dynamic warm-up video, an article about training for tennis, a series of exercise videos aimed at improving your hip rotation, and an article about exercises for low back pain. I include the latter because three of my tennis player friends have been having back problems this month.
How to fix your car when you know almost nothing about cars, spark plug edition
My car won’t start, which I have self-diagnosed as a spark plug problem (based on zero auto repair knowledge+being an engineer). Five minutes watching a (great) how to video and a trip to Canadian Tire and Sherwood Deli and I am ready for my first auto repair experience.
Top 13 benefits of a unique name
Several fun lists about the challenges of a unique name have made the rounds of the interwebs recently, which made me think it was time for a list of benefits.
And thus the following Top 13 Benefits of a Unique Name list was born:
Pizza and beer for weight loss?
The reality is that we have different goals, desires, expectations, and bodies. We also have big differences in how easy or hard certain changes are for us. It only makes sense that the optimal lifestyle plan for each of us is unique.