A Previous Shoulder Injury Won’t Stop Emerge Athlete Josh Matejka From Pitching in Top Form This Season

February 18th, 2012

Christian high school senior, Josh Matejka, pitches for his schools varsity baseball team. After injuring his shoulder during his sophomore year, Josh noticed decreased strength, endurance, and pitching velocity during his junior year. He started training with me after a year of not meeting his expectations. He wanted to regain the range of motion back in his throwing arm and build muscle and strength to come back at the top if his game for his senior year.

We started with 4 weeks of hypertrophy training; I had him super set push movements with pull movements. We would do 10-12 reps at 67% of Josh’s one reps max with a 30-90 second rest. Next I had Josh focus  on strength training for 4-5 weeks. We used more core lifts with some assistance moves. We would do 6-8 reps at 85% of his one rep max and a rest period of 2-3 minutes. Lastly we trained for power using reps of 2-5 of 90-95% of his one rep max with 3-5 mins rest, also including intense upper and lower body plyometrics.

After these 3 periodization cycles of hypertrophy, strength, and power Josh has begun throwing in preparation for the upcoming season and says ” I feel stronger than ever, my mechanics flow much smoother because of the stabilization and core strength, and my coaches are very impressed with the speed of my pitches”. Josh has gained 11 pounds of muscle in his off and pre-season training, and has made significant gains in his strength and power since he has begun with Nick at Emerge.

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Return of an Ex Client

February 15th, 2012

My ex client Vicki Rodell is back training with me.  I met Vicki roughly 10 years ago when I first started as a trainer at 24 hour fitness.  I was fresh out of college with not much experience in the personal trainer field but could rehearse front to back an anatomy and kinesiology text book.  I had a couple things right:  I knew how to motivate people,  the basics about nutrition for weight loss, and how to put together a cardio program.  The one important thing I didn’t know a lot about was program design for an exercise program.  There must be a plan based on a clients goals, proper progressions, and other changes along the way.  Just doing random exercises because they are hard and arbitrary sets and reps is not a very well designed plan.  I use to train like this before I had much experience .  I would squeeze as many exercises as I could in an hour  and the goal was to always make the client sore.  I can’t believe I am admitting this but I guess everyone has to start somewhere.  I didn’t know much about posture and corrective exercises and the foam roller was not even a part of my vocabulary, Oh and one more thing, core training was doing sit ups on a ball and using the abdominal machines.   I gave good service and had good client retention but my training skills could have been a lot better. Needless to say 10 years of experience later and more education I am excited to show Vicki what real personal training is.

Vicki is new to Emerge last week and I am excited to put her on a functional training program for weight loss.  We are on session number 2 working on technique,  core assessment, and posture correction exercises this week.  Today’s workout we stepped the intensity up for pure calorie burning by adding extra conditioning exercises such as the woodway treadmill and sled pushes on the turf.

Vicki has tried lots of things over the last couple of years and just can’t get the extra 10lbs off.  I’m excited to not only get her weight down (already down 2lbs today since we started last Monday) but also get her in the best shape of her life.    I will be periodically blogging her progress.  I’m so excited for my new challenge!  Every new client of mine is a challenge, a challenge that I will get them in their best shape ever.

Be careful when choosing a personal trainer and do your research.  Obviously education is always going to be number one but make sure that your trainer has experience.   One thing we pride ourselves with is that Emerge trainers  have both.  We are all highly educated and constantly continuing are education and all of us have 5 plus years of experience.  That is hard to find at most gyms.

Angie Pirtle

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2012 Winter/Spring Emerge Boot Camp Schedule

February 12th, 2012

Monday:
5:30pm-6:30pm: Advanced Boot Camp with Kimberly
6:30 pm-7:30 pm: Boot Camp with Kimberly

Tuesday:
6:00pm-7:00pm: Bootcamp with Jody

Wednesday:* Just Added! 5:30-6:30pm Advanced Boot Camp with Kimberly
6:30pm-7:30pm: Boot Camp with Kimberly

Thursday:
5:30pm-6:30pm: Boot Camp with Jason

Saturday:
8am-9am: Boot Camp with Beth
9am-10am: Boot Camp with Jason

 

Boot Camp Pricing:
1-10 classes: $11 each
20 classes: $10 each
30 classes: $9 each
50 classes: $8 each

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Mizzou Recruit Works With NFL Longer Snapper Chris Massey

February 9th, 2012

Emerge athletic trainers are working with Mizzou recruit Jake Hurrell.  Jake is a senior at Francis Howell North and has been recruited by Mizzou as a scholarship athlete (as a long snapper).  Jake had the honor to work with another Emerge athlete, former Rams snapper (and current Chicago Bear) Chris Massey.  Massey analyzed Jake’s form and gave him some pointers about going from high school to division I football.  They will be meeting again at Emerge in a couple of weeks to see how Jake has progressed.  In the meantime, Jake is working on his explosive ability and football specific core conditioning 3x/ week at the Emerge facility.

 

 

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72 Years Old and Training Likes she’s 27

February 8th, 2012

Lee Hauk is one of my favorite clients that I get to see twice a week.  She has been training with me since February 2006.  When I first met Lee she was a recent widow and was looking to make a lifestyle change for herself.  Her highest weight she reached was 230lbs at 45% body fat.   She had already made diet changes on her own before meeting me and lost 25lbs.   I helped her get down to her lowest weight of 145lbs and 29% body fat.  Through the course of the years she has fluctuated 10-15lbs.  One of the hardest fitness goals is to loose a significant amount of weight and keep it off.  Lee in my opinion has done a phenomenal job  keeping her weight off and the key to that is making a lifestyle change and sticking with it.   Eating habits  she learned from me over the course of the years and things she has taught herself  are now her new way of  life.   Lee is a health guru now and she has even taught me a few things.  One of the best parts of my jop is to see a client make a lifestyle change and never go back. 

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During our workouts I often forget Lee is 72.  I train her just as hard as I train my 27 year old clients and the best part is she can handle it.  I clearly remember our first workouts when a stationary lunge was impossible because of balance and knee strength and now she can stand on two balance disk and hold a pvc pipe full of water over her head.  Thats why I love  my job.  Im so proud of  Lee and her accomplishments.  Her training is truly about health and keeping herself strong to perform normal daily task.  I try to encourage her that its not about weight loss anymore but  increasing strength, balance, and flexibility.

Angie Pirtle

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Week 5 – Nicole’s Figure Competition Blog

February 7th, 2012

Definitely read Julie’s blog to get a great update of what we have been researching and experimenting with in our competition prep.

Last week we jointly decided to try out the macro nutrients that Layne Norton suggests in competition prep. This meant I raised my typical 130-150g of protein up to 180-200g. This is really uncomfortable for me because I am accustomed to using the standard rule of thumb that an intense athlete or bodybuilder should be maxing out at 2 grams of protein per kg of bodyweight. Notice, I said kg not lb. :) I went ahead and made the change, but at the back of my mind I was worrying about my liver function. I referred my question to a client of mine that is a gastroenterologist and he said that if I am otherwise healthy, have no history of liver or kidney problems, and am not doing it long-term… he doesn’t see that it should be damaging. After speaking with another competitor who trains at Emerge and actually hires Layne to do her diet, I asked if he had her on any supplements to assist the function of her liver, and he does. SO, I feel satisfied in two areas… one: My liver isn’t going to suddenly crap out on me after this diet *PHEW* and two: Layne saw the potential issue of such a high protein diet and has his clients on a supplement to assist… so I still trust his judgement and guidance. ;)

Just because we raised our protein doesn’t mean we went crazy LOW with our carbs. Often times, people go on a high protein and extremely low carb diet. My carbohydrates are averaging at 130g. I have read that depending on the person, 50-100g is the bare minimum to spare muscle and to allow the central nervous system to function. I am a huge believer in eating sufficient carbohydrates because with my job I need to be on my feet, physically active, making thoughtful decisions about clients programs, and all while maintaining an energetic, positive and motivating attitude. When my carbohydrates are severely restricted I cannot function in life. I cannot do my job. This is unnecessary and a part of what I teach my competitors. I believe that we can both be HAPPY and be HEALTHY while getting ready for competitions. Not just looking amazing, but continuing to feel amazing as we transform our bodies. Some people may have the types of jobs that allow them to zone out as they go into ketosis (MUSCLE WASTING!) but I do not. I want to be happy ;)

People can successfully compete by doing a very very low carbohydrate diet but they risk a few important things. For one, they risk the intensity of their workouts and cardio. The resting metabolism drops significantly and I have seen this happen repeatedly by using the bodybugg to track my own caloric expenditure as well as my client’s. My own burn dropped significantly when I was at my lowest, and as soon as I added my carbohydrates back my burn went up DRAMATICALLY. Since bodyfat loss is all about creating a calorie deficit, it doesn’t matter what fancy tricks you do if you don’t burn more than you take in. Gotta keep that BURN!

Also, a competitor will get lean enough to compete but they most likely lose a significant amount of muscle as well as damage their metabolisms and hormones. I have read that this type of damage can take 1-2 years to correct and it ends up being very annoying as the individuals bodyfat somehow continues to go up, even as they put in a lot of hard work in the gym and try to focus on doing well with their diet. As Julie mentioned, they also end up with carb sensitivity. If someone isn’t going to be ready for show, they may choose to do a last minute ketogenic diet – but it definitely has side effects and I believe they should never be done long-term. And who wants to be a cranky, angry, sluggish, irritable, weak during workouts, falling asleep during cardio, and flat all the time? I know my clients would hate to have a cranky, angry, sluggish, irritable trainer – which is why I chose not to follow this old-school competition prep path. I appreciate the new science a lot more :)

Here is the diet I wrote up. It is very boring for now as I get used to it, but I sure do want to sub some of my fun nutritious foods back in! I will slowly learn what I can sub in without effecting my macronutrients and food timing.

Meal 1: 1 serving 10 grain hot cereal, 3 egg whites

Meal 2: 15 almonds

Meal 3: 2 Hours prior to workout: 1 cup oatmeal or 1 Ezekiel english muffin or 1 cup rice or sweet potato

Meal 4: During workout: 1 scoop whey protein, 1/2 serving dextrose, glutamine, BCAA

Meal 5: 30 minutes post workout: 3 oz chicken, 1 cup oatmeal or 1 cup rice

Meal 6: veggies, 1 tbs olive oil and vinegar dressing, 4 oz chicken

Meal 7: Casein

Sunday we did a refeed and it definitely did not go how I had hoped! I was up late with friends Saturday night (In 2 weeks I am going to have to just drive separate from my husband and go home earlier so I don’t get screwed up on my program) When I got home it was past midnight and I had an extra serving of casein protein. I logged it onto Sunday, which is what I usually do in situations like that. When I woke up I had a chobani yogurt and a yummy protein peanut butter cookie (The only ingredients are egg whites, whey protein, spices, peanut butter, applesauce) We worked out early Sunday and I did my normal protein shake during but because of my prior decisions – my protein was already getting too high for the parameters of the refeed day. This meant that I could only really eat carbs for the rest of the day. Bad planning on my part.

I got a pancake and toast at first watch with one tbs of preserves and ordered french toast to go. It was so freakin yummy. With no butter and no sugar, each of these ends up being about 500 calories. My appetite was already WILD by the time I left the restaurant and I found myself reaching into my to go bag and eating one of my three pieces of french toast. It took ALL of my willpower and self-talk to convince myself it was illogical to eat the french toast while I only had to wait a couple hours to actually be allowed to eat it. When I got home I cut it up and put it in my own container to bring to a superbowl party. We are fostering two puppies and have a dog of our own and while I remembered to pack all of their food, bowls, and crates… I FORGOT my french toast! Noooooooooooooooo! When I got to my mother-in-law’s house I found that she had multigrain crackers and multigrain chips available so I ate those as my carb. I would eat a few, then log them on my food logging ap, then eat a few more, and log them. In total, I ended up being 100g too low in carbs and too high in protein and fat.

Lesson learned. Next time I will plan much better. Boo for me. At least I hit the calories I was supposed to hit, so that is good.

My workouts have been strong, but we did HIIT training the day after our refeed and I felt like a complete sweaty weird gross slug. It was so strange! Last week I did the hit on the woodway at a speed between 9.0-10.5 and this time I found myself starting out struggling to stay over 8.0 and even dipping into the 7′s. It had to be the diet! :) I am eager to examine how I feel after a correctly done refeed. :)

Foster Puppy!

Ok – sorry this entry is late! I have been busy with these foster puppies – but arent they just so darn cute??

Foster Puppy!

 

 

Be Happy, Be Healthy!

Nicole

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Week 5- Julie’s Figure Competition Blog

February 7th, 2012

 

Week 5 was another solid week down and I am down another pound making it a total of 5.2lbs of fat lost so far along with some lean muscle gains :) I did a TON of research this week (mainly Layne Norton, PhD’s articles and the links he has posted to his articles if you are interested) on several things- Leptin, refeed meals and also different macronutrient ratios and nutrient timing that might respond better to my body, especially coming off of a keto diet from the last 2 preps. I learned that a person may be more carb sensitive or have an inflammatory response after having such a low carb diet for an extended period of time. So I rearranged my macronutrient values to 23% fat, 36% carb and 40% protein as well as rearranged my carbs to my breakfast, pre, during and post workout meals. So aside from breakfast, your carbs are centered around when your body will be using them optimally instead of storing them. I can tell a huge difference in my appetite from changing my nutrient timing. I am more hungry, however I am eating 7 times a day so by the time I start really feeling it, my next meal is around the corner. Spacing the meals out like this helps increase my metabolism because each time the body has to work to digest the food.
As I had blogged in week 3… Energy levels were super low. This is where my Leptin research came in :) Leptin is known as the “anti-starvation signal” hormone so if Leptin levels are low the brain receives a signal saying it is starving. With this, one would have increased appetite and  cravings, decreased resting energy expenditure, loss of muscle due to body turning to muscle stores for fuel, and susceptibility to illness and fatigue.This is crucial for someone that is dieting to keep these levels high in order to off set these reactions. The goal of the diet we are on, as Layne Norton puts it, and in this specific order: 1) increase or maintain lean muscle 2) decrease body fat and 3) keep a high intensity in the gym. With low Leptin levels this is not possible. With all this information we then have to look at what keeps leptin levels elevated. This is where our refeed meal comes in. This is not a “cheat meal or cheat day” this is a planned day with certain goals in mind. The point of it is to boost leptin levels before they have completely dropped. For us, our levels had dropped early in week three so every 2 weeks would be great timing. As you get leaner, leptin levels are not as high therefore frequency of the refeed meal is increased. The total amount of calories for the day should be at maintenance level in other words, the amount of calories you burn on a typical day (this is where the body bugg is handy). The macronutrient values that I found for this are going to be about 1g per pound of lean body mass in protein, between 20-40g of fat and the rest of the calories come from carbohydrates and can be anywhere between 50 to 100 times your normal days carb value. Another thing to note is that a refeed is going to be best on a day of the body part you want to work on the most. For both Nicole and I this is legs :) We will continue testing this out and report back any findings.
On Sunday Nicole, Angie, her twin sister Leah who competes in bikini, and myself met for a killer leg workout that left us all wobbling out of the gym. We then went to first watch and enjoyed a big carb rich breakfast! I could tell that my body was in complete shock, my heart rate was increased, I was much more vascular and I could feel heat coming off of my skin the entire day. I tried to do as clean of a refeed day as possible (with the exception of the pancakes) so my carbs consisted of oats, Ezekiel English muffins, fruit preserves, dextrose, rice and kashi cereal. Protein was from chicken, shakes and eggs and my fats came from whatever fats were in the foods I ate, no intentional fat sources were eaten.  We discussed that in two weeks when we do the next refeed meal, we will go to one of our houses and make healthy pancakes instead :) Monday is normally our off day but being that we had the refeed the day prior we are going to do a HITT interval session instead. We will do a 10 min walking warm up on the treadmill and then used the Woodway Curve treadmill for our 30second sprint:30 second rest intervals followed by a 10 minute walking cool down. The Curve is killer because you have to produce the power by running or walking on it like you would on an actual outdoor track so it is a much harder workout than doing them on a regular electric powered treadmill. I hope everything made sense, I know it is a lot of information all crammed into one blog but I wanted to share with everyone the main points of what I found this week. Feel free to email me if you have any questions or are interested in the reading the articles I gathered my information from(jmhct4@gmail.com). Thanks for reading and I will continue to up date you on my progress so stay tuned for next week!

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Week 4 – Nicole’s Figure Competition Blog

January 30th, 2012

It is unbelievable that an entire month has already gone by. It makes me nervous that this same amount of time only has to pass three more times and I will be walking on stage. When people ask, “When is your show?” and you tell them… they usually say, “Oh that’s so far away!” but in our world – that is just around the corner. It’s true what they say… you aren’t going to lose it over night. The fit pictures you see of people in magazines or advertisements, they are usually at the “peak” of MONTHS of hard work. Some are blessed with the genetics to maintain a degree of leanness that is often admired, but most of us walk through our daily lives looking athletic but certainly not ripped.

When I look in the mirror, I see the changes but I know that I need to change a lot more. Is it weird that when I was heavier I thought, “Well.. I don’t look so bad…” but now that I am dieting for show I feel like I am soooo far from where I need to be! It is all a matter of perspective! This week was the first week where I really started to doubt myself. “Will I really be ready in time? When is all of the cellulite going to come off my butt?” (FYI.. Cellulite is just fat cells dimpling as they swell against the fibrous matrix of tissue in your body. Want to get rid of it… shrink your fat cells… by losing bodyfat!) I heard my own thoughts mirrored in the conversations with Julie as she also had been questioning her progress. The changes we need to make should be slow, healthy, and steady. If they are too fast, we risk losing muscle and we risk overtraining. They should be continuous, though.

Overtraining is something I DO NOT want to go through again. Last year I had so many overuse injuries that it made my final weeks of diet almost impossible and I came in to show too thick… earning an embarassing placement instead of earning a placement to be proud of. I remember being backstage and telling my husband, “Please just give me some type of pep talk right now because I am about to just leave and save myself the embarassment.” I was near tears, I was angry, I was moody. The brand new suit that I had  just gotten made didn’t quite look right on me with the extra bodyfat I had and I changed into my friend’s suit last minute which she thankfully let me borrow. I knew that the only thing I could do was rock my t-walk and just bring it, and after my husband’s pep talk – I did just that.  It was too late to really prove anything to the judges. They had overlooked me, and what was done was done. All that continues to go through my head is that I NEVER ever want to feel like that again. Lesson learned.

With that being said, week 4 was great. I ended up going over my calories by 50-100 for a few days and I was really really struggling as I doubted myself and my progress. I ended the week by STOMPING my insecurities and tuning my diet to adjust for my minor overages so that I averaged out on track. Last week was also when I started to really feel the effects of diet on my workouts. Drained, weak, tired… sleeping like a rock. Luckily we got to raise our calories by 200. Matt had suggested trying a reverse pyramid diet, so I am spending the first two months of prep experimenting with that concept. It is the idea of starting prep with your lowest amount of calories and gradually adding more as you get leaner and more depleted. Always staying in a weight loss area, but staying energized as you fuel your body for the intense workouts.

The great thing is is that my own beliefs and programming (which I have found align with what Layne Norton teaches!) would put my calories at the same 2000 with the same macronutrient ratios for the next four weeks.. so I will be in a perfectly comfortable place to either go back to the next steps of my program or continue the road of the reverse pyramid diet. I think it will depend on how lean I am. If I am dropping quicker with the extra energy and calories, I will stick with the reverse pyramid. If I am in a place that I have a lot more to lose, I will proceed with carb cycling, which will bring my total average calories back to an average of 1800, but with three to four low days and one high day so that I can tap into some more stored bodyfat but stop my metabolism from slowing down in the response to the low calorie amounts.

On to fun and exciting news – I got my hair done for the Community Living, Inc Charity Ball and I used the occasion as an opportunity to do a trial run of my show hair! Jen Estes, owner of Manestream Studio did an awesome job with my hair but the true test was if my hair would hold the curls.

Show Hair!

I’ll have to get my hair done VERY early in the morning and it will have to last 12 hours before I actually step on stage. The great news is that it looked BEAUTIFUL and I slept on it that night and the next morning it STILL looked fabulous. I pretty much felt like a princess with my dress and fancy hair, especially since I wear gym clothes all day. Buff chicks can dress up pretty too!

Dressed up! Fun!

I just hope no one noticed my biten off finger nails……. ha! :) I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I was also wearing my competition shoes – so it was great practice! Walking in 5 inch heels doesn’t come naturally to anyone.! Furthermore… my grandma gave me a pair of lucky earrings a while back to wear at competitions. They were the same earrings she wore for pageants and they look silly when I have my hair up so I really hoped that my hair would hold so that I could wear the earrings. SUCCESS!! The greatest thing about the evening, besides that they raised so much money for a good cause – was that Laura and I were able to stick to our diets! She talked to the kitchen and got our fish steamed and our veggies steamed, no butter no oil no sauce! She even brought Mrs. Dash for me to borrow! I added a little kick to my coffee by tossing a yummy chocolate hazelnut tea bag into it. Dessert, but not really :) On top of that, I stayed up until 3AM that night and was able to stick to the plan. I was so worried about faltering but I DID IT! Which leads to my next comment.. here I am kicking booty and my weight didn’t drop this week. In fact, it is reading 4 lbs up (which in reality, is impossible!) but I am just going to keep going!

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Nicole Dudas

 

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Julie’s Figure Competition Blog- Week 4

January 30th, 2012

 

I can’t believe we are now 12 weeks out!!!  This week we booked our hair, makeup, spray tanning appointments and hotel room so everything  is starting to really set in that we are JUST 12 weeks away…To most people this would seem like an eternity but to any one competing this is when every little thing matters and your mind starts playing games with you about if you are going to be ready to get on stage and win…
This week was challenging in that I really started to feel run down and low on energy. I could tell in my workouts that I was struggling, I was falling asleep on the couch every night by 8:30 and I was sooooo hungry all the time!!! This week was also very busy for me at work which made it challenging to get everything in but I did it! Like Nicole hit on last week in her blog, if you want to achieve your goal bad enough you will find the time to get everything in… Everyone has the same 168 hours a week so plan out your schedule and meals a head of time so that you are not put in a tight spot! This sport, and weight loss in general, is so much about planning planning planning. I plan my workouts and cardio for the week ahead of time and block them out in my schedule so I have no excuse for not getting them in. Each night I plan out my next days meals and when I will be able eat them throughout the day. Also, I log all my meals ahead of time so I know where my macronutrient ratios are at so at the end of the day I am not sitting there going “oops! I’m over on my calories, or oops my fats are way too low and my carbs and protein values are too high”. This may seem like a lot of work to some people but once you get the hang of it you will know more of what you need each day at every meal and it is not such a time consuming thing. If your goal is that important to you, you will find a way to do what needs to be done… I’ll go ahead and step down off my soap box now…
Like I was saying earlier, we had been feeling low on energy and so the end of this 4weeks could not have come at a more perfect time. On Friday, we bumped up our calories by 200 (keeping our macronutrient ratios the same) to help replenish glycogen stores. We had increased our cardio to 5 times 40 minutes this past week and will continue to increase it by adding in a 30min high intensity interval training session this coming week so the extra calories that we are getting will help out a ton! I can tell my energy has increased already allowing me to have great workouts fri and Saturday and as I sit here writing this I am very excited to leave for the gym in an hour to kill my legs!
To Follow up with last week, Matt took our measurements on Tuesday and I am excited to report that from 1-3-12 to 1-24-12 I am down .75 inches in the chest, 1 inch in the waist and .5 inches in the hip and .5 inches in the thigh. My skin folds show I am down 2.7% body fat and a true steady gain of 4.5lbs of lean muscle (the lean muscle gain has been tracked from 11-17-11 to 1-24-12). These figures go to show sometimes the scale is not the most accurate way to assess progress :)

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If You Have Back Pain Read This

January 28th, 2012

 

In October 2010, I was experiencing severe back and leg pain due to a herniated disc in my lower back. After numerous visits with multiple doctors and steroid injections in the spine, round-the-clock painkillers and muscle relaxers, I still found it difficult to do things as simple as putting on my own socks. By February, I had had enough and was ready to concede to back surgery.Meanwhile, my husband had been doing some personal trainingwith Kimberly at Emerge; and during the course of a casual conversation, she suggested I see Dr. Matt Lytle at Precision Health Group. I pessimistically agreed to try one more thing before setting up the surgery. I began seeing Dr. Lytle onFebruary 23. After three weeks, his treatment helped tremendously, and I was soon cutting back on some of my prescriptions. Dr. Lytle suggested I go to Emerge in order to build my core and increase relief from my symptoms. I started working with Angie on March 21 while continuing to see Dr. Lytle. By April 5, I was no longer taking any prescriptions. In February, I couldn’t stand to be in a car for 5 minutes; but in early May, I took a couple OTC and was able to sit on a plane for four hours.  As I write this, I am heading to Texas tomorrow and not even packing any pain relievers. Thanks, Angie and Kim at Emerge for your part in helping my get my life back!

Sheila is one of the many clients that we see at Emerge everyday.   Corrective exercise can help manage and heal pain that people deal with everyday.  If your an athlete battling repeat injuries or if you sit at a desk 40 hours a week and experience neck and low back pain we can help.   Starting a corrective exercise program starts with a consultation and  a postural assessment.  We then put together a corrective exercise program based on a persons daily routine, common movement patterns, and we develop the program based on each individuals movement dysfunction.  These clients start out with therapy exercise programs and with in time they are completing 5ks, triathlons, and marathons and achieving personal goals they gave up on years ago.   Contact an Emerge Trainer to gather more information and setup a consultation.

 

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