Category: The Break Room

  • How Can PT Help… PT?!

    The average person is often surprised when I tell them that, as a physical therapist, I work out of 3 different gyms that offer personal training in one on one or small group settings. There are some trainers that have offered some pushback to that too (unfortunately). But in my professional experience, working with people…

  • Coaching Cue: Slow Down

    SLOW DOWN “Motor Learning doesn’t occur if you’re racing along in panic mode and defaulting to incorrect pre-existing patterns” – Eric Cressey Lifting weights steadily and under control will help minimize risk for injury and maximize muscle recruitment for strength and growth. Questions to ask your clients after a movement: – Where do you feel…

  • Empowering Client Success: The Art of Teaching the “Why” Behind Exercises

    Derek is a server who works in a restaurant downtown. He’s on his feet for 8 hours a day during a shift, and carries heavy trays of food and drinks to his guests. Over the past few months, Derek starts to feel an ache in his lower back after a long day’s work. His friends…

  • Joint By Joint Approach– How Anyone Can Use It

    Often times we as coaches hear the words “I can’t squat, it hurts my knees” “I can’t deadlift, I have back problems”. In the world of medicine, many professionals set limitations for us that we go on believing will always just be. We as humans are constantly fixated on the problem and not the framework…

  • Chronically Tight Traps

    The trapezius muscle (aka traps) plays a vital role in our upper body strength and shoulder mechanics. Yet, they often get a bad rap as ‘too tight’, ‘holding stress’ and having ‘too many knots’. This may even show up in the form of jaw pain, headaches or migraines. If you’ve found yourself saying these things…

  • Say Hello to the Editor

    Introducing myself as Coach Meg always still gives me a butterflies in my belly feeling. Coach, is such an influential title, and it is one I never take for granted. During my undergrad I always pictured myself moving towards the world of health/medicine/physical therapy and never thought I’d find myself coaching in a gym setting.…