A list of fitness skills that will serve you for a lifetime
Learn how to:
- Relax your body on command
- Give good massages
- Build muscle mass and strength (crucial later in life)
- Improve your mobility
- Resolve joint pain
- Source and cook whole foods
These skills are the tenets of Sovereign Fitness.
The education system misses the mark when it comes to taking care of your body. You start your career with no skills to perform long-term and end up paying for it greatly.
I work with people who are a few years into their professional lives and have chronic pain already.
A lot of my clients succeeded professionally yet neglected their bodies along the way.
The only reason they’re working with me is that it started affecting them in all aspects of their lives. #t
You can’t perform at work and lead your family when your body is broken.
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"Newborns do feel pain" reads the opening line of a 1987 New York Times article.
This reality came to light after decades of pressure from parents and laypeople pushed the medical monopoly to review the science.
Muscle relaxants and laughing gas were futile as it turned out.
The author Philip M. Boffey wrote that 77% of the babies who underwent surgery to repair a blood vessel defect between 1954-1983 worldwide did so without pain-killing drugs.
Several studies in the 1940s showed that babies did not respond to pinpricks in the arm like older kids and thus were immune to pain. Experts explained that this fact was due to an immature nervous system and other internal factors.
The way we wake up tells us a lot about ourselves, yet few people pay attention.
You feel the quality of your rest physically and mentally.
I’ve asked many sleep-deprived clients to describe the first two hours of their day.
This thread presents some common themes:
1/ Physical Pain
Some people wake up to the sound of pain instead of an alarm, a loud scream from one or multiple places in their bodies.
Waking up is a physical battle for them.
2/ Heavy Brain
Many people describe this heavy feeling of the brain. Their bodies get out of bed just fine, but their brains feel like an anvil or foggy sometimes for 2-4 hours.