#TBT: September 24-September 27, 2012

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What was I writing about this time last year?  Check out my posts below!


Pre-exercise MAT™

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All of my personal training clients start on the MAT™ table so I can get an overview of how their body is doing at that moment in time.  While I ask for verbal feedback regarding how they are feeling that day, many of my clients are unable to provide an accurate assessment of themselves.
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Falling and Catching

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In previous RTS™ courses that I have taken the thought has been brought up by Tom Purvis that gait is a series of falling and catching.  What I believe he means by this is when you walk you are allowing your center of mass to be outside of your base of support and then you transfer the responsibility of supporting your center of mass from one leg to the other.
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Talent is Overrated

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"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will, and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom: The power to choose, to respond, to change."--Stephen R. Covey
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My Latest Hill


"We all have hills in our lives, times of struggle and times of ease, but how we run them will determine a lot..."

It has been over two and a half years since I wrote those words for the February 2010 issue of The Source.  I still believe them to hold true. Back in June over Father's Day weekend I had the opportunity to hike the Grand Canyon with my dad, brother, and 12 other friends and friends of friends.  It was a 22-mile trek along the Kaibab trail that began on the south rim at 5:00 AM.
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