Overall, an interesting week. I had surgery and things went well overall on Friday.Was notified that I'd have a morning surgery on Thursday. Had significant concerns going into surgery and was second-guessing everything. Continuation of the denial and grieving stage of knowing that I'd be rehabbing in normal life would not continue until the rehab process was complete, which will take approximately 9 to 12 months. I thought Dr. Backes did an absolutely wonderful job of just b

Overall: Challenging week. Ruptured my pec tendon and confirmed that with planned surgery next week. From a patient perspective it was interesting how much denial I was in. I more or less diagnosed myself at the time of injury, then did mental gymnastics up until I got the MRI trying to convince myself that it didn’t happen. As much as I hate the thought of surgery, I think it’s the long term responsible choice even though it’s going to be a frustrating 3-6 months just to ge

Overall: Back was sore post the dead lift day and I need to be more mindful of doing some glute activation work. Also am rethinking adding in some sort of mobility during the clinic day. I’ve been too sedentary during the work day lately and need to think of more ways to get in a little more movement. Unfortunately strained my pec this morning. Will probably be a month or a month and a half before I can get back to normal training. I’ll know where things stand in the next w

Overall: Busy week. Had to be flexible with training this week. Mark Chavkin ended up working on me Saturday morning. He’s an excellent massage therapist. Very different than treatments I’ve had in the past, not just standard soft tissue work. It was more integrative massage therapy, blending FPR (he had another name for it), soft tissue work, and positional stretching. Very unique. Post treatment feeling good. Education has been coming along and I didn’t realize it was a h

Overall: Took a short trip with the family. Excited to onboard Alexa (new NP) at the practice as she starts next week. We shortened the trip which was nice to have some time with my wife alone. Wrist is overall still feeling better and don’t think about it as much. Training the past two weeks was wacky with travel. Still doing a lot of operational planning for 2027 and excited to start putting out more tools articles to give people recipes to hopefully improve health. Got to

Overall: Busy week. Going on a trip for a couple days and will need to hit two of the three days on my lifting program this week and next week. BJJ will be down to a couple sessions these two weeks. Hoping that it’s a good trip. Hand was still giving me some issues early in the week and had another medical provider take a look and do some orthobiologic injections. I think just getting fluid into a couple of the arthritic spots helped a lot and had no pain for the first time

Overall: Slept better this week and that helped as it was a tiring week. Hand/wrist have still been causing some problems. Will probably end up having a couple buddies take a look from an intervention standpoint, early arthritis from a HS fracture is finally starting have a functional impact 20 years later. From a squatting perspective I’m considering a safety squat bar just because the grip on that is bothersome. I regressed into old learning patterns with Attia republishin

Overall: Frustrating start to the week. Went to train on Monday and my R hand was swollen and I couldn’t grip a barbell. Some of this was from aggravating my hand arthritis and the other part was not getting any quality of sleep going into the week. Was supposed to be a 95% load on squat and was frustrating not being able to go into a higher intensity on that. Rest of the week things felt pretty good. Felt nice feeling like most of the training maxes are generally accurate.

Overall: Training has been poor the past 4 weeks. Was hopeful post tax day that things would calm down and that hasn’t been the trend. Overall challenging 6 months and recovery has been very poor the past week. The week following drill weekend is generally taxing and this was the case. Flared up my wrist arthritis pretty significantly at BJJ which was frustrating because training has been poor over the past month. Think it was just the combination of poor sleep, shooting a

Overall: Feels like it’s been the least I’ve trained over the past couple of weeks. I think it’s impacting me from a decompression standpoint. Didn’t realize how reliant I was on BJJ for social support and decompression, but it really helps. Between illness in the home that’s lasted the past couple of weeks and some scheduling challenges it’s been a tough couple of weeks. Good news for the practice this week that I hope puts us in the right direction long term. I’m really h

Happy Easter - He is Risen Overall: My bad joke this week was it was an unholy week in our household. Both kids got gastroenteritis and our home was filled with diarrhea, vomiting, and love… Sleep was impacted considerably. Our kids were so generous they shared this with us, good times. My uncle positively reframed it for me and stated that we are all just purifying for Easter Sunday. It’s disappointing to not be able to go to church today. Training of course suffered. Was

Overall: Busy week and physically was down. Will probably need to do some sort of recovery modality, massage/float/sauna. Tried adding cortisol manager and slept very poorly all week long which is atypical. Uncertain if it’s just overtraining from modifying the current training program and it will just take a couple of weeks to adapt or if it’s just too much. Had some interesting conversations and hopefully we’re implementing some tools to improve clinical care. It’s a challe

Overall: Still in a rut over the past couple weeks. Sleep is all jacked up. Felt good to be able to get in a do some admin work this past weekend and getting started on ACLM board review. Finished Spirit Gym which took about 10 months to complete. Had promotions at supersystem this past weekend and it’s always wonderful to see long term friends move up the ranks. It’s a journey. It’s also fun to get to see people I haven’t seen in a while and roll with people I haven’t in a

Overall: Uncertain if it’s the time change or just the grind of life, but recovery was poor all week long. Was hitting minimums all week in the gym and have really emphasized increasing sleep. Assume the busy period will continue for the next month or so. Wrapping up the Spirit Gym course and I’m very impressed with the content Paul has put out over the years. He is one of the drivers of holistic health - mind/body/spirit, and this course seemed to be a culmination of his li

Overall: This week is typically challenging. Had travel this weekend and the Arnold classic brings a fair amount of external pressures. Was feeling a little run down. Have had a fair amount of patients struggling with this winter, and I think I felt the same. From Thanksgiving - Tax day seems to be the winter at this point with increased stress. Need to think about strategies to help break this up. A long term goal is to snow bird, but that’s not realistic at this point or in

Overall: It’s been a stretch over the past several weeks. The winter months are still here and I’m seeing the impact on patients and personally. There’s been glimpses of the winter breaking and it’s nice to get back outside again. There’s a price you pay when you go away, but I still find it very necessary to get a break from the monotony and connect with those closest to us. Training has been very flat over the past couple weeks and I know the root cause is insufficient sl

Overall: Well that weather was interesting. Big wrench in the week and was probably the most bizarre training week I've had in a long time. All the closures impacted life and was the perfect ending to is seeming one of the more challenging months of the year for me personally. What I seem to notice throughout the past several Januarys is you're coming off the stress of the holidays and then you enter into the Ohio darkness in a cold. Currently I'm working through the Dan Joh

Overall: Kind of a crummy week. In reflecting back, January has been hard the past couple of years. I’m uncertain if it’s the exhaustion coming out of the holidays mixed with our lovely Ohio weather or what, but it seems like my baseline level of grouch has been amplified. This was a testing week and things were hoo-hum. Reps were hit and that’s about it. I’ve always struggled with top end strength and I’ll be entering the intensification phase over the next 4-8 weeks. Run to

Overall: Past week was chaotic. With the holidays ending there were a lot of things to clean up coming off a busy holiday season. Work hours were longer with a weekend trip. Sleep was really poor this week and was more or less exhausted by Saturday. Got to train at Lexington Athletic Club this weekend, which is one of my favorite gyms around the world. Has every piece of equipment you could imagine. Was interesting running on the woodway vs my Farmer Boy Fitness curved tread

2025 Year in Review Relationships Grade: C Spouse: Very up and down year as a spouse. Have not done a good job intentionally blocking off one on one time for my wife. Got stuck too often in the grind of life instead of focusing on quality connection Mitigation Strategy: schedule dates QOW Wednesdays Kids: Spent tons of time with the kids but think we're getting very close needing one on one time with them as well. Oftentimes we found ourselves playing one on one defense i