Blog Posts in October, 2014

The Olympian in You

Dare to Dream : this challenge encompasses the underlying spirit of every Olympic Games, from the lighting of the flame to its quenching. From the time of the ancient Greeks to that of Cathy Freeman ...
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Mend It Like Beckham-the Power of Progression

When a professional athlete is injured, there are a lot of details, dilemmas, conflicts, and challenges. I'm part of the team's team—a mix of physicians, trainers, physical therapists, ...
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From Injury to Victory

In the previous blog post, we saw that the victorious spirit is our evolutionary birthright, an inner strength inherent to our nature as human beings. But sometimes forces like age, accident, and ...
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Wired to Survive

Today, of course, we no longer have to hunt for food and migrate with our food supply like we once did. We find that we were designed as a species for physical high-performance activity and, yet, we ...
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Born to Run

Africa is the setting for the long dawn of human history and our Darwinian evolutionary sequence. Four million years ago, apelike creatures named Autralopithecus walked upright on that continent. They ...
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