Zak McGurk
Profile: Climber, Design Guru, Giant dog owner Injury: A really fucked leg Issue: Falling Shattered Tib Plateau, blown LCL, fractured ankle, two surgeries and 6 weeks in a wheel chair. Diagnoses: Straight [...]
Finn Westbury
Profile: Sponsored Snowboarder, Injury: Ruptured PCL Issue: Solid Objects I had numerous winters with 100 plus days on my snowboard without a second thought about what it meant to actually be in [...]
Reflections: Understanding Pain
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.
(p)Rehab: Stretching the Shoulder Girdle
Passive Stretching after Tissue Releae I commented a while ago on the notion that you need to do some passive stretching after doing soft tissue work on the musculature of the shoulder girdle. [...]
(P)Rehab: Foam Rolling and Point Release
Foam Rolling and Ball Work This one is from the archives. May 15th, 2012. Still relevant now. Soft tissue work at its most basic. This is a quick video that is [...]
(P)Rehab: Forearms and hand pain
This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published on July 13th, 2012. It and a number of other posts seemed worth salvaging from the archives, so here it is. [...]
(p)Rehab: Shoulder Rehab 101
This post came out of the Irrational Fitness archives, having first been published on May 10, 2010. It and a number of other posts seemed worth salvaging from the archives, so here it is. [...]
Climbing Training
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Sleep, Recovery, and Exceptional Performance
So our science around the miserable things that happen to our bodies without enough sleep is pretty good. I will proceed as I often do by not actually providing any real references to the [...]