Alexandra Ellis
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Beautiful Liar
Pain can be a complicated liar. Many times where it hurts is not the direct cause, and the only way to get the root of the problem is to look up stream or down stream for the culprit. When we are in pain, we’re convinced that the injury is precisely where we...
Stop Being a Slave to Pain – Get The Roll Model Today!
Are you a slave to pain? Are you afraid that your current diagnosis is a life sentence? Whether you’re in chronic pain, have a recurring injury, or regularly require pain medications to get through the day – there is a solution. The key, believe it or...
Texting Tension? Try This!
If you’re anything like me, your hands spend a good portion of the day gripping on to something. Day in and day out, our poor fingers don’t do much more than tap away at keyboards or hang off a steering wheel. Repetitive motion at any joint is not...
Better Breathing for Blissful Sleep
Breath – we all do it, but are you doing optimally? The breath is governed by a very special muscle known as the respiratory diaphragm, which is the only muscle of the body that is controlled by both the autonomic and somatic nervous systems. This means that you can...
Move Your DNA
Did you know that exercise was created to make up for the lack of movement we have throughout the day? If you spent all day doing hard manual labor, you would not come home and want to go on a run, nor would you need to. Our tech heavy lives have turned us into couch,...
Do You Squat?
Most training styles offer participants a specific type of body change, whether it’s slimming, lengthening, or building strength. Clients come to fitness professionals with specific goals in mind of what they want to achieve, so how do we best help them reach their...
Body Blind Spot Aversion
Rolling my neck with my toted YTU Classics. You know the space under your couch that never gets cleaned even though you know it’s dirty? Out of sight, out of mind, right? It’s always just close enough that you are aware it’s there, but never a big...
Nobody Loves a Charley Horse
Have you ever been awoken in the middle of the night by a muscle cramp? After a night of karaoke and dancing, I was pulled from my deepest sleep with the most excruciating calf cramp I have ever experienced. I wanted to scream, but was in so much pain that I could...
The AE Wellness Guide to Pain Free Hamstrings
If you had to pick one muscle that you thought was “tight”, what would it be? For most people, whether they are yogis, CrossFitters, runners, office workers or humans, the hamstrings are a literal pain in the ass. It’s no real surprise that the hamstrings are short...
Monkeying Around – Grip Strength and Hanging
Grip strength is a long lost art in the modern age of touch screens, steering wheels and keyboards. While you don’t need to hang from trees anymore to get your food, that doesn’t mean that your body can get by with no upper body strength. My workout this week involved...