You book a great week-long ski vacation somewhere out west. You can’t stop thinking about knee deep powder, and 3,000+ vertical feet, and runs that take half an hour to ski down. Then you start thinking about that, and you remember how bad your legs felt during your last ski vacation. The good thing is that there is a solution. Now the real question: what do you do to prepare for a ski trip – or for ski season for those that hit the slopes locally?
Lessons about low back pain (part 2)
This week’s post is a follow on to last week’s post with some basic information about low-back pain, covering some slightly different topics and getting into a bit more detail. The post will primarily address whether and how much we should bend, extend and rotate our backs.
Lessons about low back pain (part one)
I had the pleasure of spending two days at a Dr. Stuart McGill seminar about “Building the Ultimate Back”. Dr. McGill is a spine biomechanist…
Nutrient timing
Time Magazine recently published an article that concluded exercise doesn’t help with weight loss. That’s’ not entirely true, but nor is it entirely false: When…
3 exercises for low back pain
I recently talked with someone who gets low back pain about strength and stability training and exercises for low back pain, but was politely brushed…