It’s been a long time, long time since I met you met you. That’s a reference that you might not get. Or maybe you do! Welcome.
Sports rehabilitation (for us) is the opportunity to use movement to fix the body. Our bodies are made to move. When we stop moving, we don’t feel that great. From an anthropological point of view (I have a BA in it) the body is mechanically formulated to walk and make things. I haven’t yet met a body that I can’t help feel better. And this is all about chronic pain or ongoing joint pain. It is truly amazing that you can take a body, give it the right stretches, the right strength training exercises for the weaker muscles and wallah! it feels better. It’s pretty basic actually when you think about it.
I like to think of the body as a robot because to create a robot (probably 30 miles away from here) one must understand the mechanics of the human body. I LOVED West World because it continuously showed how to make a human body. But I digress. So when understanding HOW the joints move and how the muscles interact with the joints, the connection to make them work properly again is basic. So the more you can understand about how your body moves, physically then better you will be able to control it and use it.
Ash and I take a deep and spiritual (if you will) approach to functional strength training and health; how we relate to the world and ourselves through taking care of our bodies. Nobody is perfect and perfect is not the goal. The goal is progress. The goal is the be better today than you were yesterday.
The goal is to live a happy and healthy life. Those two words often go together for a reason.
I just started training my parents. After about 200 hours of psychotherapy (well actually I stopped it 7 years ago) I’m finally able to offer my parents (who live below us in our house) the service that I do best – personal training. They do it together so that they can kvetch (complain), but also have someone to compare themselves to. It really is the very cutest thing. It is never too late to try to be better. Much love, Mindy