America Receives a D- for Overall Physical Activity in Youth

This was the tragic subject line on an email I received this morning from the American College of Sports Medicine,  the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world that advances and integrates scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine. In other words, it’s one of the most […]

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Evolution of Medicine Summit

The Evolution of Medicine Summit is a free, online event that begins tomorrow, September 8, 2014 and continues on for a full week. What is it? Per their site, “Our summit intends to not only shine a light on the work of professionals evolving to solve the modern epidemics of chronic disease, such as Type 2 […]

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Pulling Back to Move Forward

Last year when I was preparing for Ironman World Championships, I pulled a muscle in my back. Far from the worst type of injury, of course, but significant enough to affect my training and to draw my attention to what my body was telling me, and likely had been telling me for a while but […]

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What A Day

Wow. Not necessarily the most profound word but it really sums up, in a nutshell, how I feel after just having completed the first component of my education as a yoga teacher, the 200 hour Teacher Training. Yoga is something I’ve practiced for a long time, not as a main component of my daily or […]

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