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Hey CORE family… what’s up? It’s Stephen Dunn. I just wanted to go over something really quick. This is a topic that gets really hot every year on Super Bowl. An article typically comes out the few days after the Super Bowl talking about the starters and how many of them played certain positions or certain sports in high school. How many sports they each played and the topic is sports specialization and many, many people think for their quarter… their kid or for the athlete to be the next, like great quarterback. Or the next great pitcher or the great this or that or the other… They need to specialize in it and do it from the time they’re a young age.

Well the research suggests that that’s not good. It actually ends up causing burnout, which was one major problem. It also causes severe overuse injuries.

So let’s talk about the quarterback for Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes. He’s the spitting example of why you should not specialize in any sport! Why?

Okay, he’s pretty amazing at quarterback, right? Well let’s talk about him, he’s an amazing athlete and by him being an amazing athlete he is pulled from everything he is played from the time he was a young kid. Now when he was in high school… We are talking about Patrick Mahomes the quarterback of Kansas City, when he was in high school he was the quarterback on the football team, he was the starting point guard on the basketball team and he was the starting pitcher on the baseball team.

So the reason I bring that up is but and he was good at all of them… and from the numbers that I read is that he was really good and he probably could have picked any of those sports and went on and made a living playing any of those three sports. But what he did is he chose football and by choosing football he actually chose to be an athlete playing football. So when he watched him play the way he does things it’s just it’s the combination of all those sports and that’s why he’s doing so fantastic.

He’ll throw passes like this, he’ll throw passes at the sidearm. Well that’s his pitching experience in high school. When he’s running the ball he can shake in juke anybody… that’s being a point guard on the basketball team, right? Whenever he also does something that not many people do in football is a no-look pass. Well he’s looking this way but he’s passing that way and in basketball that’s a very common thing as a point guard to have a no-look pass. In football he’s obviously pretty spectacular. So my point is if you have a child, if you have someone that you know and that you care about and they’re really interested in specializing in one sport or if coaches are pushing you to specialize in one sport… all the research suggests that that’s not recommended. Whether again that’s any sport, it doesn’t matter which one, that it’s just not recommended. When I was a kid we couldn’t play sports all year. We played baseball and then football and then basketball. If we wanted to play soccer or track of course those were options and other sports are options too.

We didn’t have the option to play one sport year-round, so that’s my message for today. Really consider it not specializing in one sport, playing all sports and the Super Bowl is a great example every year of that.

So that’s my message for today, if you have any questions or comments hit them below. If got a question for me and want to call the office… 512.215.4227. I’d love to hear your take on this and what you think about the sports specialization in our modern culture in sports.

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Jase had a great idea a few weeks ago in our team meeting… Lets go decorate a tree on 360 as a team. And after a few moments of discussing, a plan was born.

Jase went out to scout a tree a few days prior and then half of the team met on a gorgeous sunny day to decorate. We tied the ornaments down very well so they stay put in the wind.

We laughed as we showed the team this video and told them that the crew that didn’t hang the decorations will be required to go take it down. We will make sure to get each ornament picked up and gathered after the holiday break…

A fresh snake skin a few feet away from our tree had us on high alert…

HAPPY HOLIDAYS…

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Hello, CORE Family. I hope you guys are doing well. Today, I would like to give you guys some updates about our course schedules. Starting on Monday’s and Friday’s at 8 AM we will have a new classical pilates class. And starting at 10 AM on Friday, I will be taking over Cheryl’s reformer class for rehab. My name is Andy Tseng, a physical therapist with CORE Therapy and Pilates. I look forward to working with you guys.

I hope you guys are having a great day.

Talk to you soon.

Dr Andy is a Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Manual Therapy Certified, Certified Pilates Instructor

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Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Stephen Dunn with CORE Therapy and Pilates. Today for Mindful Movement Monday, we have Megan teaching a class. What you need is a foam roller, so get your foam roller out.

Tonight, we’re just going to work on the upper body, some drastic lengthening and rotation. I’m already going to go ahead and get down on our mats. We’re going to take that foam roller, we’re going to lay it across the back, and it’s going to go right about mid back.

So if you’re a woman, you’re probably going to go right along that bra line. We’re going to take our hands and we’re going to interlace our fingers and rest them up underneath supporting the neck. Take a moment and lift with your neck supported.

Let the upper body lengthen over the top of that foam roller, taking some nice deep breaths here. On your next exhale, we’re going to push the center of the shoulder blades down into that foam roller and curl up to look at our belly button.

Then as we inhale, we’re going to keep that neck supported and lengthen out over the top of that foam roller again. We’re going to do this about five times, gently exhaling.

Pressing that mid back into that foam roller as we curl up looking at the belly button again, keeping the neck supported and trying to keep the neck away from doing all of this work. You’re engaging into those lats to help bring you up. We’ll do about one more through the center.

We’re going to go ahead and lengthen over the top of that foam roller again. On the next one we are going to curl up and we’re going to look down at our left hip pocket.

So we’re going to curl up almost like you’re going to go take a look right at the side of your belly. Then we’re going to inhale, lengthen out, centered over the foam roller.

Now exhale, we’re going to curl up looking at the opposite side, trying to gently start working that spine and some different plans. We’ll do about one more on each side.

After we get finished with that, we’re going to take that foam roll and we’re going to get rid of it. So after you come up off of the foam roller, you can let it rest to the side. Then we are going to the next position.

We’re going to get into child’s pose. You can have those feet together, knees apart. We’re going to lay down and stretch open, trying to reach our fingertips down towards the end of the mat.

Once you find a nice comfortable position here, we’re going to take an inhale into the ribs. As we exhale, we’re going to try to walk those fingertips out towards the end of the mat.

A little bit more on your next inhale, nice big breath into the ribs and to the low back. Again exhaling, walking those fingers upset a little bit further on the next inhale.

Let’s take this fingertips and start walking them over to the right hand side of the mat. Now we’re getting really long on that left side body. When you get here, I want you to take a nice deep breath into that left, rip. Exhale, try to walk those fingers, hips a little bit deeper.

Taking one more inhale and exhale in this place. Again, trying to lengthen up through that body. Then we’re going to start walking the fingers, hips, reaching for the end of the mat as we go through the center.

Then we’re going to walk over to the left side of the mat, taking a nice deep breath into that right side. Rip and exhale and walking those fingers heads just slightly deeper. Good, one more inhale and exhale here.

On that exhale, find a release through the rib cage. Find the release through the low back. Then we’re going to start walking ourselves back towards the center. Again, lengthening out during this whole entire process.

When you get back to the center, nice deep breath here, inhale. Exhale. Let’s go one more fingertip out. Then we’re going to slowly roll up out of this position.

When we get up to see that we want to have that spine set nice and tall. We’re going to go on to the hands and knees now. So we’re going to be up onto quadruped head. The next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to go into thread and kneel.

Let’s start by taking that right hand. We’re going to reach underneath the left arm and you can do less if you can make it down to the right shoulder. We’re just going to rest there, finding a little bit of tape rotation, then go as far as you’re comfortable.

As you’ll see, we’ve got people in all different kinds of areas right here. Once we get there, nice and gentle, deep breaths to help release and open up through that body. One more in here, and on the next exhale, we’re going to come back to center.

Now we’re going to pick that left hand. We’re going to thread that left hand underneath, trying to reach away from the body as we go into that rotation. Using that breath, letting the exhales decompress the spine.

We’ll do one more in half, and on the exhale, we will go ahead and come up out of that. Then the next position. We’re going to do one more exercise. We are going to be down on the ground, legs extended out in front of us.

The next exercise we’re going to do applies exercise called saw. Let’s reach both hands up initially. We’re going to take an inhale. On the exhale, we’re going to take that left hand and bring it to the opposite side of the right leg. There we go.

Slight reach forward, as far as you’re comfortable, trying to get that rotation through the rib cage, keeping the pelvis stable in front of us. On your exhale, we’re going to come up through the center and lowering down on the opposite side.

Go ahead and drop those hands to either side. Take an inhale and we are done for the day. Thank you guys so much for watching. We hope you have a great week.

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Hey guys, what’s up? It’s Stephen Dunn with CORE Therapy and Pilates and today I want to making a quick announcement about some new hours that we have for our physical therapy department.

We have a brand new physical therapists, Andy, who just moved here from New York. I’ve been introducing him to people, he’s been around for now about a week, Been in town for about ten days or so. With Andy coming he is gonna not be here on Thursdays, it’s gonna be his day off, but he’s gonna be here on Saturdays. It’s gonna be the first time that we’ve had Saturday appointments for physical therapy in a long time, probably about 12 years. With me and my children Saturday is always the time that they have stuff going on, activities going on, so it’s just something that I haven’t been able to do in so long and now it’s a new service that we’re gonna have, a new time frame we’re gonna have Saturday mornings. We already have people here Saturdays doing classes, we have some Pilates classes and some GYROTONIC® classes and we also have some groups, uh excuse me, private sessions that are available but we now have some physical therapy being offered. So with that said if you’re struggling with back pain, if you’re struggling with headaches, if you’re having some shoulder problems, some knee problems? We can help you out with that, it’s something that we specialize in and see all the time. We combine manual therapy with Pilates and gyrotonic exercises and really have some some fun with helping people. So just wanted to share that today, Saturday mornings physical therapy appointments are now available and we hope to see you in here. y’all take care now… bye!

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Hi, it’s Cheryl from CORE Therapy and Pilates. Today I’m here to tell you about a new thing that we’re offering at the studio it’s called the Biomat… so the biomat is a mat that you come in and you lie down on in it has far infrared rays a negative ion therapy all conducting through a pure amethyst mat.

So you’re probably wondering what does all of that mean and what does it do??? There’s so many added health benefits from using this mat, I am just going to go ahead and read a couple of them because I can’t remember them all. When you come in and use the biomat it addresses a wide range of health issues, it relieves minor aches and pains, increases blood circulation, reduces stress and fatigue, eases minor joint pain, supports your immune system, improves your sleep and reduces your inflammation. It increases tissue oxygenation and there’s many, many, many more benefits. Come in and try it out. We have 15 minute and 30 minute sessions. you just come in lie down on it. You can feel immediately the far infrared rays emitting through the mat and it helps really address the body on a cellular level…

So come in try it out we look forward to seeing you. If you have any questions stop at the front desk, ask we’ve got tons of information on it and we look forward to seeing you at the studio!

Thanks. Bye…

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