Amidst the bountiful holiday feasts, featuring roasts of all sorts, rich desserts, and endless finger foods to pick at, let's remember to chew more. It's easy to forget when we want to stuff our faces and try everything. Here's five good reasons to do so. 1. You'll get full when you're actually full. Often we eat too quickly to realize that we've had more than our stomachs can handle. 2. Chewing improves digestion. This means you'll get more nutrients out of the food, less ga

Michael Phelps: The most decorated swimmer of all time and possibly one of the most talented Olympians to have competed. Warm-up for the last 14 years: 800/600/400/200 - swim, kick, pull, drill, followed by some 25m. Pretty sure this is no different from any young club swimmer in any country. What's different is his ability to mentally prepare and pursue excellence in the rudimentary drills. #movementpreparation #motivation

As each year winds down, I've always enjoyed the sports and news breakdowns or Year in Reviews. Hindsight paints a very clear picture of the linkages between events and the paths we have taken. Facebook has used its resources to compile a Year in Review based on trending statuses. From the ALS Ice Bucket challenge, to World Cup in Brazil, the sad death of Robin Williams, Pharell's "Happy" song, the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Malala's stand for human rights, to the Ebola epide

Small shoulder injuries can escalate to become chronic nagging issues which will ultimately affect our quality of life. Sitting, texting, driving, and the many hours spent in front of the computer will put your shoulders in a poor position and lead to issues related to impingement and instability. While it's important to consider your neck, shoulder blade, thoracic spine and ribs (see diagram), we will keep it very simple today and talk about pass throughs. A pass through or

Roger Federer: A technician, an artist, a living legend. Here he discusses his extracurricular preparation for tennis. Getting the body primed, the mind follows. Five sets is a grind and his movement and precision on every shot matters. #mobility #preparation #movement

An efficient runner's stride will is around 90 steps per minute (per side). A swimmer will effectively cover 50m freestyle in 30-40 strokes. An 8 man rowing team will hit 38-40 strokes per minute in complete, agonizing unison. Cyclists will go hours on end at 90 revolutions per minute to maintain 50km/hr. Salsa and quickstep dancers will be moving at over 200 beats per minute. An strong, endurance athlete or hypoxic athlete (free diver) has a steady heart beat of below 40 bea

"The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People" by Stephen Covey is an important book in my recommended reads section, as it layed the groundwork for developing the principles that guide my life and helps direct time and effort whenever I'm being pulled in many directions. My first impression of the "Time Management Matrix" was that it was too structured and simplistic to deal with the paradoxes and dilemmas that life creates. However, upon revisiting the matrix, I've realized tha

Diego Maradona - one of the greatest to ever play soccer. A charismatic man whose god assisted goal will go down in infamy, he knew how to stay loose. Movement prep doesn't have to be technical or structured. #movement #warmup #mobility #football

Buddhists talk about transcendence, athletes try to explain being in the zone, musicians and scientists claim that there is this thing that is called flow. Eastern philosophers will call it nothingness, while Christians say it is the Holy Spirit. All these practitioners know that there is a higher energy that can be reached which enables peak creativity and performance, a place where the mind and the body elicit no struggle. In these moments, they are all practicing the art o

Superman drew his power from the yellow sun. On Kryton, he was just another Kryptonian, with no relative advantage over any other Kryptonian. But Earth's yellow sun, this was truly powerful, an energy source that worked through him. And this is inherently true; the yellow sun is a great ball of energy which we can feed off as well. As we get deeper into winter, the days above the 49th parallel start close to 8am and end at 4pm. Every winter, the lack of sunlight turns people