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I use posture as an assessment tool. Just as I use your gait as an assessment tool . And when I do, people commonly ask me, "is there anything wrong with my posture" or "am I walking wrong" It makes me smile when they do, it's a perfectly natural question. But, it's not the reason I look at these things. I'm not looking for what’s "wrong" I don't believe we can "fix" a persons posture What I look for are what is and isn't happening And I see those things as solutions the body

Tension Muscle contraction and relaxation As a topic this is really complicated, with calcium ions, ATP, tropomyosin and all sorts of other fancy words that don't help us in a practical sense. But essentially, there are times when a muscle may contract, and then it may hold that tension and "forget" to let go. We have all felt it. Maybe it was a cramp, a pulled muscle, an ongoing ache that wouldn't go away for weeks or months. Reducing this tension is a large part of my injur

Why are you training? It's a question that gets asked a lot. Why do we do these things? For most of the people I work with, training serves a purpose. It is to provide them with the strength,  mobility and endurance to go out and take on various challenges.  Be that sports, be it traversing the mountains, security work, or simply doing everyday stuff without pain and discomfort  So to this end I view creating training plans as a process of reverse engineering. Every client th