Andrew Heffernan

So here's something to consider. Since the nascent days of the modern fitness industry, the exhortation to "use good form" when you lift weights and run, and cycle and swim and so on has been repeated so many times you barely hear it anymore. Doing a set a barbell curls Stand rigid and mov...
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Spoke briefly on the phone last week with Rich Goldsand, a Feldenkrais practitioner from Phoenix. Turned out to be one of those conversations where you suddenly discover you're speaking the same language as someone you've never met before check out the movie PLANET 51 for a hilarious version of this...
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As luck would have it, I hurt my back last week. 'Wha--' I don't know if the wizards at Moji are psychic--or perhaps they have very effective voodoo dolls--but a while ago, they sent me their cold-compression knee wrap just a few days after I had hurt me knee. This time, they sent me their hot-cold ...
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I'm emerging from a couple of weeks of self-imposed exile, during which I wrote some income-generating articles which will help me to further keep up with this blog, my time-consuming and less remunerative hobby. Had a good time though the article I wrote was on "primitive fitness"--I did ...
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I got bashed in the face the other day in my martial arts class. It happens. You practice these deadly arts with your chums, trying to take care to pull your punches. But now and then, attacks pick up speed, they get harder and faster and more lifelike, and whammo Something gets pulled or twisted or...
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