Thumbs Up

By Selfseeds | October 21, 2013

Fitness level is thumbs up again.  The motivation to recover from the accident has led me to a level of fitness that I haven’t experienced in two and a half years.  Fun state of being, but the next adjustment will be traveling and living abroad with modified exercise.  I asked the PT what would happen…

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Functional Tone

By Selfseeds | July 13, 2013

What do you want to get out of your fitness program?  For some it is strength, balance, flexibility, weight loss, and more.  For me personally as a baseline, I would like a high level of functional fitness, so I can move about my day with freedom and without pain.  My target is functional tone, aerobic…

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Daily Selfseed #8 Tempo In Workout

By Selfseeds | July 7, 2013

A super easy way to challenge yourself in your workout, is to go slow with the weight training.  By slowing down, you have to use the entire range of your muscle’s range:  eccentric (lengthening under tension), isometric (holding under tension), and concentric (contraction phase.) For functional strength, flexibility, and stability, we need our muscles to…

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Selfseeds Integrative Exercises: www.Selfseeds.com (short iMovies)

By Selfseeds | October 5, 2012

Integrative exercises, why do I use that word combination so frequently in my blogs and exercise iMovies?  As a professional athlete who needed to move in coordination to another living body,  I constantly had to look at integrating strength, power, flexibility, balance, weight distribution, and rhythm to improve first my internal awareness and then my…

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