Training for Life: Functional Movement

Functional full body training is important because we need to train our body to use proper form, flexibility, and strength for any and every activity we perform in life. It is not enough to exercise and train the individual parts, which is still good, however it cannot mimic all the movements and transitions that occur when we are performing our daily activities. It also make our body familiar with those movements and allows us to slow things down to teach our mind and body how to perform those movements correctly, before we are engaged in our day, going 100 mph, and on auto pilot.

Dr. John Fresh

Stronger Shoulders Day 4???? Rotator Cuff Exercises

Stronger Shoulders Day 4???? Rotator Cuff Exercises !!! The muscles that hold the shoulder together!!! This are the muscles that protect and hold the shoulder together. The muscles underneath all the other shoulder muscles. The determine range of motion, strength, and stability of the shoulders. Knowing about them and knowing how to care for them will give you healthier shoulders. A quick side note, ball and socket joints have the widest range of movements, hips and shoulder are examples of ball and socket joints. So, the flexibility, strength, balance, and health of the joint are very important for a healthy active life!

Dr. John Fresh

Stronger Shoulders Day 2: Front Raises

These are the muscles you use every time you lift our arms and put them down in front of our body…cooking, cleaning, computer, remote control, phone, driving, picking up the baby, shooting a basketball, having a catch, brushing your teeth…and the list goes on. You want your shoulder muscles to be health and strong, so they are ready for the thousands of repetitions that you ask them to do in a day.

Dr. John Fresh

Stronger Shoulders Day 1: Shoulder Press

You use your shoulders every time you move your arms, to drive, and you even sleep on them. They pick up babies, carry groceries, and we put them in a number of weird positions when we reach for things. Your shoulders are also a big part of your posture. Because they are a ball and socket joint and can go in so many directions, thank God, we need to keep them healthy and the muscles around them flexible and strong.

3 Things Required for a Strong Back

The 3 things every body part needs, including your back, is alignment and mobility of joints, healthy, flexible, and balanced muscles, and strength. Many people go straight for the strength part, thinking making things stronger is the only answer, so they make the core or the back stronger, to give them a stronger back. Makes sense right! However, without doing the 1st and 2nd step you still get unhealthy joints and muscle injuries. As a result, over time they find that all the muscles in the world can’t overcome arthritic joint problems and muscle injuries that stop them from enjoying their favorite activities. The video is an example of how to add all 3 elements to your workout, this video in particular is showing you how to have a well balanced pull up routine for your back.

Dr. John Fresh

Feel Younger in 15 Minutes

Many people think it is difficult to feel younger. Is that you? Here is 1 reason, yes only 1 reason, that will prove to you that it is easier than you think to feel younger in under 15 minutes a day!

There are many complex things the body needs to do to be healthy. I’ll even admit that it can be hard to get motivated and get started each day. It may even seem impossible if you have poor health, feeling like you are getting old, or have been going from doctor to doctor looking for answers. However, let my offer you some hope! You have an amazing body, that if given a few simples cues, will respond with better health, feeling younger, and the ability to be more active. That is the one reason we have the easy part when it comes to health and feeling younger, please give me a moment to explain.

Think for a second about how dominoes fall. If they are lined up correctly do you need to knock over everyone or just the first one. Well, health and your ability to feel younger or older than your age follow the same concept. There are simple habits and choices that set off a complex set of reactions leading to our ability to feel young and be healthy. For example, the simple habit or choice for us is to drink a glass of water. This simple act of drinking water starts all the complex reactions or dominoes that fall into place after we drink that glass of water. Now, even though it only took us less than a couple minutes or even seconds to drink that water the health benefits do not end there, the benefits are actually just beginning. Our amazing body does all the complex work of getting that water to every tissue and cell, which there are trillions. Once they are in places trillions of reactions take place in the body to benefit the health of the cells, the tissues, and so on, all the way up to benefiting the entire persons. Over time allowing the person to feel younger, be healthier, have better skin, and all the other countless benefits that drinking good water provides. All from taking a couple seconds to drink a cup of water. Which then leads people to ask, how many glasses should I drink a day? The general answer is half your body weight in ounces, however this does not include outside temperature, activity level, if you are taking meds or drinking caffeine, and other things that can cause dehydration, which can impact your specific water requirements.

If you think that was cool, now think about taking a bite out of an apple, which only takes a minute or two, which is simple, right? Now think about how your body had you think you were hungry, made the apple sound good to you, so it could get the nutrients that it knew was in the apple. What about how your teeth and saliva break down the apple, allowing you to enjoy some flavor along the way. The your body, yes your body, takes the vitamins and nutrients from the apple, delivers them to the cells to activate key enzymatic reactions that set off trillion of processes in all the different cells and tissues to heal and repair your body. Mind bomb!

I could go on…about the benefits of a healthy spine and nerve system, rest, exercise, stretching, positive mental attitude…

We have the simple part when it comes to giving the body what it needs to be health and feel younger, the amazing body does the rest.

There are many simple things we can do that have been proven to result in the body producing better health and the ability to feel younger with minimal effort on our part. When we do the simple things the body has to respond with feeling younger and better health!

Join our blog to continue to learn more about how simple it is to activate our amazing body to feel younger and healthier!

Dr. John Fresh

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

  • Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
  • Because it will help you focus your own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

  • Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
  • What topics do you think you’ll write about?
  • Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
  • If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.