Overall It's been a strong push getting everything ready for the move over the next two weeks. Stressful — these have been a challenging couple of weeks, and I'm excited to have it behind me soon. The coordination has been the hardest part. Once it's complete, I want to make time to reflect on it and celebrate what's ahead. This is a major milestone — the culmination of nine months of work. Physically, the back rehab continues to progress. I'm pushing a little harder in the g

Overall: Shoulder/pec is feeling better week over week. PT finally got out of the ROM only phase and started doing light resistance. Still ahead of schedule on rehabbing that but suspect it will be another couple of months to get back into drilling only with BJJ. Went in and seeing some of the guys from BJJ on Sundays is good, but just makes me want to get back on the mats. Move is coming up in 3 weeks to the new building. Hopeful that ends up being a good thing for patient

I love birthdays. For the past decade I've done a review twice a year and set goals for the year ahead. One lands in December. The other lands around my birthday, July 18, and I start it about two weeks out. Last December the reflection stretched across the whole month, which tells you something about the year I was having. Most of life is swimming. Head down, arms turning over, working hard just to stay afloat. That's not a complaint — it's the job. But you can swim for year

Overall: Being busy continues. Continue to feel like there's improvement in the pack healing and range of motion. Had follow up physical therapy this week and it seemed like range of motion was objectively improving. Still have significant restrictions in the right arm to only work on range of motion exercises without loading. Subjectively can start working on back exercises for that arm in the next two weeks. Training with Mike has gone really well. Certainly a change and t

Overall: Happy 4th of July and Happy 250th Birthday to the United States of America. Just finished the third week being post-op from my right pec major repair. Came out of the sling more or less full time this week. Pain has still overall been limited and things feel better in the shoulder on almost a daily basis. Rough week for my left leg because my patellar tendinitis and then turf toe on the left flared up from doing too much on the leg and then limping around. Second

Overall Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there One week postoperative. Recovery has been much better than expected from a physical standpoint. Mental to no pain since the time of surgery. Swelling is significantly down over the course of the past week. Mentally been a very challenging week. What's efficient at work and difficulties navigating normal human functions with one arm. Challenging week for a bunch of people that I really care about and just hope to be suppo

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