Posts by UCANDOIT

This might be a long winded post, but I need to talk about breathing. I’ve been working with athletes for a long time now, and probably the last topic to ever be brought up is BREATHING. Yes, we all need to breath to live, but do we actually know the mechanics of the breath? How…

Ok, maybe not these calves, but the calves on your lower limbs. The things attached to your feet and to your hamstrings. What are the jobs of the calf muscles? Flexion and extension. Load and unload. They are not your prime movers, but for most people they end up being the prime movers because their…

Why are people afraid to change their mind? We all know that things are always in motion and changing every day. We learn new things, we create new things, and each day is different. What might have been true when you were 17 really doesn’t hold water when you are 50, right? Just because you…

Let’s spend some time on the Trapezius area this week. In the pictures above you see the last layer of muscle, which is the Trapezius that covers the upper part of your back and attaches to your skull. There are a lot of times that just this muscle alone can cause imbalances in our body…

Be a FASCIA’ista about your Lateral Chain……or that side of body you tend to always forget. It’s the part of the body where you bend, reach, and roll. This week you’ll spend 5 minutes working on your right and left side of the body. For whatever reason we humans have a tendency to spend time…

You have an athlete who wants to be awesome at skill X-Y-or Z than where they are currently. They get into the pool, run miles, practice movement patterns in the gym for hours each week trying to get faster and stronger (or to just perform the movement well). The question isn’t that the athlete is…

This week you’re going to spend 5 minutes a day working on the Neck and Skull! Why? Because it’s where we hold a lot of our tension, and part of where we create our posture. We sit at our desks all day, or look at our phone screens, and even when we drive we stick…

or how I’ve come to appreciate No Fiction February. For those of you who really don’t know me you’d be surprised if I told you that I am a fiction-alcoholic. I read more fiction books in a year than most people in five years (or in the case of my husband his entire life). It’s…

or why it’s not a great idea to drink that glass of wine (or bottle) New theme for the month. It’s also No-Fiction February, but I’ll discuss the ‘good choices’ theme today, and talk about the book thing later. It came to me the other day after having a talk with a client who was…

A lot of us spend time trying to find approval from others. We rarely look for our own approval. We are sometimes driven to do things to prove to others that ‘yes….we can do that!’ or ‘neener-neener I can do it and I proved you wrong’! Yes, this is how we would operate when we…