For a lot of people, myself included, once you age out of your twenties, sleep injuries are FOR REAL! Waking up with excruciating neck pain that ruins your day is no fun at all, and luckily there are some concrete steps that you can take in order to prevent the chance of that happening. In …
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I’m excited to announce a FREE RESOURCE for our community that I’ve been working on for the past few months. Released today! This is a picture and video-rich guide to the stretches, strengthening exercises, and mobility techniques that you can do at home to reduce the neck, shoulder, chest, and back tightness and pain that …
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EDITED May 22, 2022: TRIGGER WARNING for mention of specific numbers of body weight and calories and of dieting/ restrictive-eating behaviours. A common approach to eating is to eat 80% “clean” food and 20% treats/sweets/not-so-healthy foods. It makes sense initially that this would be a less strict way of eating that could increase your long-term …
Front double-biceps pose 10/6/18 Trans Bodybuilding Competition in Atlanta. Bodybuilding. Sounds interesting. Building one’s body. Training hard in the gym and eating right. Seeing some results. Work a bit harder. Consider competing. Realize one’s options as a non-binary person are 1) Compete in stilettos and a glittery bikini or 2) Sign up for a mens …
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Acupuncture and Post-Surgical Care A Guest Post by Katrina Hanson LAc, owner of Prism Integrative Acupuncture in Oakland What is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) TCM is an ancient healing system involving acupuncture, herbal medicine, moxibustion (moxa) warming therapy, cupping massage, nutrition, lifestyle, and other healing modalities. Together, they bring patients back into balance by addressing the …
EDIT: 5/23/2022 Trigger warning: this video mentions weight loss and specific calorie numbers. In this video, I talk about why you’d want to calculate and track your macros, and then I show you step by step how to calculate your macros. Once you get your macros set, you will want to test them out for …
https://youtu.be/f8xMldrY5U0 Full transcript: So if you’re just icing for a couple of minutes and you’re not actually feeling the numbness, you’re not going to do any good for pain relief, but if you can get to those stages, that’s going to give you the best pain relief. So what is the best way to ice …
https://youtu.be/_Hh_FJpwVqc FOAM ROLLING FOR RUNNERS This is a lower body sequence that should only take you about eight minutes to perform. You can watch the video, or follow the “Foam rolling for runners: lower body sequence” picture tutorial below. Sit on your foam roller. Cross your left ankle up and over your right knee. If …
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https://youtu.be/hxqdsqACuAs Foam rolling your lats, rotator cuff, serratus anterior, and intercostal muscles can help ease your breathing as well as relieve stiffness and tightness in the back and shoulders. Step 1: Lie on your side with your foam roller in your armpit and your arm spun outwardly. If your arms spins into lots of internal …
