Insight Into Injury

👵👩‍🦳 Age is just a number, and strength has no expiration date! 💪✨

Hey beautiful ladies! 💃 Let's shatter the myth that fitness is only for the young. No matter what age we are, we can still get STRONG, HEALTHY, and CONFIDENT. 🌟 (and by the way, this is my birthday week, so I'm particularly motivated to prove the old age myths wrong! lol)

Join us for a fabulous Shoulder Sculpt & Stabilize workout class designed especially for women who know that strength and confidence have no age limit! 💃💪

As always, Tuesday 6-7pm.

Let's celebrate our strength, embrace our bodies, and work on sculpting those sexy shoulders together. Age is just a chapter in the book of life; let's make it a strong, empowering one! 💥

Tag your fellow fabulous ladies (invite your friends!) and let's empower each other to be the best versions of ourselves, no matter our age. Reserve your spot now and let's prove that age is just a number in our fitness journey! 💪🔥

My kid and his teammates crushed it at the JV tourney yesterday in redondo beach- taking home the first place trophy! I was spending the time between games and snack bar duties introducing myself to coaches and parents and offering them this: a free team workshop. I want to help the kids prevent injuries while hitting their full potential as athletes. When they are growing, it’s common that their muscles would be less flexible and more prone to injury. When muscles are less flexible than they should be, they’re also not able to perform their best- meaning, the kid they’re attached to isn’t able to jump as high or move as quickly or swing as hard! I hope that I can get this message across to these very talented and driven teenagers- and see how far they can go! 🏆 🥇💪🤩

The snow in California has been EPIC. But as it gets warmer, the snow becomes heavier. How's your body holding up? Make sure your knees are up for the challenge! Keep skiing through this long season without an injury. Go to www.insightintoinjury.com/ski-strong for a cheap and easy way to make sure your knees can hang.

Trying to exercise when you have pain is a very difficult scenario.
If you don't exercise, you could get even more stiff and weak and gain more weight.
If you do exercise, you could be making your injury/pain worse.
So, what do you do? ASK ME!
Here's why I think I can help you:
Let's use the example of knee pain that needs a total knee replacement. But the doctor won't do it until you're below a certain BMI/weight. (often for good reason- the replacement wont last as long, you might have blood pressure or diabetes issues that need to be under control to tolerate the anesthesia, you'll need to rely on just one leg for a while to cart your whole body around, etc). Patients are often sent to PT to help them exercise more and to help them with pain reduction. There are 3 things that compress a joint. Gravity, Body Weight, and the contraction of muscles that cross over the joint. PT's can help improve the way your muscles act on a joint. Take for example the hamstrings. They start at your hip, run down the back of your leg, and cross over the knee joint. When you contract your hamstring, the muscle tugs at the insertion on the back of your lower leg and causes your knee to bend. Good stuff. But- if that hamstring muscle is too tight, (like, you've got bad flexibility) when the muscle tugs at the insertion to bend the knee, it also COMPRESSES the knee joint together. That compression, that squeezing together of your joint, is causing you wear and tear and pain at your knee. And yes, you can get to working on that right away! Less pain, better mobility, healthier flexible muscles... not only are you less miserable when trying to exercise, but your surgical recovery will be improved! It's worth it to start now. Give it a try! In my "Personalized Action Plan" program we have a 1 on 1 session over video and I teach you the most basic exercises to get you started on your wellness journey. It's where you've got to start. I'm here for you. Go to www.insightintoinjury.com/ActionPlan today!