Mika Hemphill
Profile: Urgent care doc, obsessive climber Injury: Ego Issue: Smallness, lack of strength at end range As physicians... we learn the parts of a human body, but there’s a difference between understanding [...]
Profile: Urgent care doc, obsessive climber Injury: Ego Issue: Smallness, lack of strength at end range As physicians... we learn the parts of a human body, but there’s a difference between understanding [...]
Failure is a part of training. Failure is a part of training. Not flailing attempts at mediocrity, but legitimate work that pushes a person to the limits of their ability. Every skill based [...]
The best athletes I have ever known adapt to injuries. They train other things. They work on weaknesses and try and figure out why they injured the tissue in the first place. Sure, they do daily work to speed the rate of recovery, but beyond that, they have grace.
I have found myself stuck on a topic for over two weeks now, the end result being that while there have been some videos done and some writing compiled the site has remained untouched. [...]
PLAY Which planes should you pull in? We neglect horizontal pulling. When new clients are introduced, when possible we start them with some [...]
PLAY Prayers are all that get these up. So I am back on a hunt for a triple body weight dead lift. At [...]
Weighted Rope Climbs It seems a little over the top that I always talk about how much stuff hurts, and perhaps it is just that I am soft and weak... but climbing our [...]
How do you train fear? I wrote this in 2011. It still is something I sit and ponder. How do we best tackle the world of training our heads, perhaps the item that [...]
The Carny: I am building a bachar ladder The British Spy: That's old school training. The Carny: Exactly So I built a Bachar ladder this weekend. It is one of the old school [...]
Flexibility is an expression of strength in a full range of movement. I have recently been doing a lot of work looking at rebuilding and strengthening my shoulder girdle. It seems that people [...]