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When Stretching Doesn’t Work
1576 days
You think you are stretching your hamstrings? Well, you’re not. At least not likely. Why is it necessary to even discuss stretching?
Why Flexiblity is Important
The ability to move in a full range of motion is important because we use our bodies the way we were meant to move. We use ALL of a muscle instead of only a part. We use ALL of our muscles instead of a specific few. This is healthy, balanced movement.
Once we start losing flexibility, our tightness snowballs. My grandmother would ask me at least once a day to get something out of the cabinet for her that was right above her head. My grandfather didn’t have the flexibility or strength to perform a squat; he died as he fell going to the bathroom, hitting his head on the sink on the way down.
Flexibility allows movement. Movement allows the body to function. You (and your grand-kids) can be happy because you are able to do everything you want and need to do in life.
The Opportunity Cost of Our Time
0832 days
Time is money... or is it more than that?
I always talk about bang for your buck with patients or people I am training. People can grasp that they want to get the most value for the paid dollars or for their time as they can. To be most effective in any one aspect, it only makes sense to focus the most on those aspects that will achieve the most sufficient results. Stephen Covey lists it has one of his 7 habits of Highly Effective People: “Do first things first.” What happens when we don’t do first things first?
What I did not realize was that there was an economic term for “bang for your buck,” which is “opportunity cost.” Opportunity cost is essentially what you have to give up in order to make anyone decision. In my personal life, having a job costs me the opportunities of having free time to read and spend time with friends. In chiropractic, the time I spend playing games costs me opportunities to learn new techniques or adjusting people. No choice is either right or wrong from person to person, but individually, each choice does bring us closer or farther away from our goals in life. Continue reading “The Opportunity Cost of Our Time” »
Hi, My name is Christopher, and I’m a grainaholic.
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Addicted to sweet wheat.
Hi, My name is Christopher, and I’m a grainaholic. True story. Luckily, I am also addicted to fruits and vegetables, to exercise, and to feeling good and being happy. I am thankful everyday for these things. The problem is the grains, meaning the pastas and breads, the candy, the cheese, and the dairy. They are not good for me. Luckily, I enjoy the “good’ things enough that I don’t fall off of the grain wagon very often, or is it on the wagon? You get the point.
Most people don’t understand how certain foods people eat, mainly the breads and pastas, are addictions, just like any drug addiction one might have. Most also don’t understand why breads and pastas are unhealthy. Yes, the list goes like this: marijuana, cocaine, heroine, and pasta and bread. The same nerve pathways that are lit up when people use these drugs are also lit up when eating foods especially high in calories and carbohydrate. The reason this occurs is because our body has evolved to crave these foods when available, satisfying a temporary need in the form of storing large amounts of energy in body fat. Historically, human beings didn’t have food markets with low priced carbohydrates and candy available 24 hours a day, everyday, for an entire lifetime. Thousands of years ago, we lived off of the land, hunting game and gathering fruits and vegetables. When food sources were low, it was necessary to eat the high calorie foods in large quantities because you never knew when you were going to get another meal. Our brains got smart and created this addiction pathway that caused us to “feel good” after consuming foods like this. The chronic diseases of Western civilization have proven that the human body needs more than just calories to sustain life.
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