This year I published 53 posts and received more than 330,000 page views. That’s about twice as many as last year. Here are some of the highlights. 1. How Does Kinseotape Work? This post got more page views than any other, thanks primarily to the burning desire of many googling Olympics fans to know why… Continue Reading
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Nutrition and Disgust
I have always been very interested in nutrition as it relates to health, including movement health. But until now I have not written any posts about it, partly because it seems a little off topic. But now I’ve decided that I will write a post or three on nutrition, because it is definitely a very… Continue Reading
Announcement for Seattle Readers: Feldenkrais Classes in September
I will be teaching six weeks of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (“ATM”) classes in Seattle starting September 11, 2012. Please contact me if you would like to attend. Here are the details: When Classes will be held Tuesdays evenings, 6-7pm, from September 11 through October 16. What The classes will focus on coordinating the hips… Continue Reading
Parasitic Movements
Is your movement infected with parasites? Is the skill of movement related to the skill of self discipline? Is there a reason the word “motion” sounds a lot like the word “emotion”? Other than it makes for lots of good disco song lyrics? Read on and find out. Movement skill is movement inhibition One of… Continue Reading
Free Feldenkrais Lessons
Attention readers in the Seattle area: who wants a free Feldenkrais lesson? In about six months I will finish my training program to be a Feldenkrais practitioner and until then I need some practice doing the hands on work, which is called Functional Integration. For now I can’t charge for my work, so for the… Continue Reading
Flexibility and Sports Performance
In this post I have put together a few semi random thoughts on flexibility and its relationship to sports performance and injury prevention. Flexibility defined Flexibility is basically the range of motion at a particular joint – how far it can move from A to B. I like to think of flexibility as the quantity… Continue Reading
Maintenance
Sorry about the ugly look around here the last few days. I was having some problems with my theme disappearing. And for some reason wordpress wouldn’t let me write a post. Everything seems to be back in order now. Sheesh.… Continue Reading
The Effect of Fatigue on Coordination
I just read the abstract of a study cited by Chris Highcock at Conditioning Research. (By the way if you are interested in either strength training or hiking, check out Chris’ excellent new e-book called Hillfit.) It is one of many studies that show that muscular fatigue impairs coordination. Because coordination is essentially a mental… Continue Reading
Video Proves that People are Awesome
Check out some of the amazing, skillful, brave, stupid, and AWESOME things humans can do. Why do they do these things? Just because. Hat tip to Chris Highcock for the video.… Continue Reading
New Study on Efficiency: Mental and Physical
A new study sheds some interesting light on the concept of movement efficiency, which is something I write about a lot on this blog. The study suggests that the mental work required to perform a certain movement, like the physical work itself, can vary significantly depending on whether it is done with efficiency or not.… Continue Reading