by | Dec 26, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
It wasn’t until the third trip around the block that I finally gave up and went home. I had a rare morning off and had planned my entire day around getting my butt into a yoga class at a neighborhood studio. But apparently, it was also trash day, which if you live in...
by | Dec 19, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
The moment you step off a curb and your ankle makes a horrible crunching noise is the worst. Literally, the worst. Because you know that nothing good is coming from that awful noise. Rainbows, sparkles and unicorns aren’t about to appear out of thin air. All you’ve...
by Alexandra Ellis | Dec 11, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
I pretty much knew medical school was a no-go when the application asked “What’s the last book you read?” and all I had was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 😳 So I doubled down and refocused my efforts on PT school. I’d already been through physical...
by Alexandra Ellis | Nov 20, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
In 2013, I did something super weird. I spent $2000 to spend a week with a brilliant teacher in a room full of cadavers. At the time, this was the most expensive training (outside of college) I had taken. And unlike college or yoga training, there was absolutely no...
by Alexandra Ellis | Nov 13, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
After spending thousands of dollars on procedures, providers, and pills that didn’t work – I completely understand feeling hesitant to try something else. Why should you spend more money on another thing that’s not going to work? The better question we should be...
by Alexandra Ellis | Nov 13, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
What’s the first thing you do when you open your eyes in the morning? You’ve hit the snooze a few times and you finally muster up enough energy to peel your heavy eyelids open and you… Let me guess – check your phone? Because if your phone is the first...
by Alexandra Ellis | Oct 17, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
Can you learn everything you need to know about the body from free videos on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram? As a YouTube Creator, I get this question a lot. There’s so much free content out there, that it makes sense to think that everything there is to know is...
by Alexandra Ellis | Sep 26, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Research |
As tempting as it is take a rest week, or two, or three, recent research has found that inactivity as short as two weeks can create changes in blood chemistry, insulin sensitivity, and cardiorespiratory fitness. In other words, not moving in some way every day is...
by Alexandra Ellis | Jul 2, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Mobility, Resources |
Anatomy and the science of the body have traditionally been taught as a bunch of parts smushed together to make a human. The books make it seem like everything is perfectly neat, tidy and in its “correct” place and has little to no relationship to what’s happening in...
by Alexandra Ellis | Apr 30, 2018 | Fitness, Main Blog, Wellness |
I mentioned the idea last week that not all exercise is movement and I want to expand on it because it’s something important to consider on your journey towards moving better and feeling better every day. You see, your body doesn’t really care if you’re at the gym...