It can be challenging to exercise in Central Texas during the summer months. Here are five tips to stay safe while exercising this summer: Be aware of the sun. Use sunscreen and shade your eyes when possible – particularly when participating in water sports. Keep surgical scars safe by applying sunscreen to prevent discoloration of new, fragile skin. Any new …
How To Squeeze In Exercise During Vacation
It’s easy to stop exercising while you are vacationing. Here are some simple ways to keep moving during your next trip: Wear athletic shoes while traveling and sneak in a walk whenever possible. Walk to and from restaurants, around the airport on layover and in quick intervals on breaks when you are waiting on something, such as when you fill …
Enter the Get-Up! A tool to help increase the functional years of your life
Folks, let me open this piece up by stating plainly that strength matters! Strength is so important that it may be the difference between an independent, active later-adulthood and hiring a home care professional to assist you in bathing and using the toilet. Strength can heavily influence your financial life, your love life, and the legacy you leave for future …
Physical Therapy Can Help Cancer Survivors Improve Long-Term Outcomes
One of the side-effects of our human species’ current tendency to have exponentially longer life-spans in comparison to our ancestors from several generations ago is that the incidence of cancer is much higher. Statistics are sobering: according to the American Cancer Society, over 1.6 million new cases of cancer are expected in the United States for 2016. Cancer is currently …
Marshaling Your Resources
Since the inception of Symmetry Fitness and Performance in late October, 13 year old Marshall B. has attended 2 instructional sessions per week. He has shown up on-time, memorized his individualized corrective exercises, and owns an attitude of diligence that is rare even among the professional and collegiate athletes I have coached. Marshall received instruction on the kettlebell swing, the …
Why Symmetry Fitness is the ANTI-GYM
Symmetry Fitness and Performance is not a gym. We provide expert fitness instruction. We do not have members. We have students. National chain gyms profit when many people buy memberships and few show up to make use of their purchase. We assess the quality of our students’ movement. We teach them how to improve the quality of their movement. Then …
SYMMETRY FITNESS CLASSES ARE IN SESSION
You’ve asked for it. Now we are offering it. Symmetry Fitness begins in October! Don’t be a SPECTATOR in your own life! Get stronger and more resilient! Benefits include: Small-group class allows individualized attention without a high cost-per-session. Learn how to strength train SAFELY and condition your body EFFECTIVELY to become more graceful, durable, and powerful! Precise movement skill curriculum …
The Count of Monte Cristo and the Home Exercise Program
“Probably, if ever I get out of prison!” “True,” replied Faria, “we are prisoners; but I forget this sometimes, and there are even moments when my mental vision transports me beyond these walls, and I fancy myself at liberty.” -Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas Recently I dug back to a book I should have read in high …
Shouldering the Load of Recovery
The shoulder is a joint of high acclaim. Isaac Newton “stood on the shoulders of giants.” We cry on our friends’ shoulders when disaster befalls us. They are the joints that allow us to perform complex manipulations of objects. Without a mobile shoulder joint what good is an opposable thumb? We could still play video games and conduct a text …