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    How Small Habits Rewrote My Life: A Journey Beyond the Gym

    Reading Time: 6 minutes I used to think health was about hitting the gym hard, eating kale salads, and tracking my sleep like a scientist. I’d scroll through fitness blogs on sites like Whole Life Challenge, nodding at the advice—move more, sleep better, eat clean. It all made sense, but it felt...
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    What You Need to Know About Knee Pain and Your Patellar Tendon

    Reading Time: 6 minutes For those of us who train regularly, knee pain can be a source of aggravation. It results in needing to modify your training, taking time off, and maybe even surgery. And it requires extra time with your physical therapist, chiropractor, and/or massage therapist. Today...
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    Human Garage: Building Total Body Strength

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Importance of Total Body Strength Strength is vitally important. Strong muscles give us our posture and help us manipulate objects, move around however we wish, and fully participate in the activities we enjoy. Strong muscles have another important function, too —...
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    Loosen Up from Head to Toe: YogaVibes Mobility Week 1

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    Everyday Yoga for Lower Body Flexibility: YogaVibes Mobility Week 2

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    Lifting Workout Recovery: YogaVibes Mobility Week 3

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    Everyday Yoga for Relaxation and Recovery: YogaVibes Mobility Week 4

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    Restorative Heart Opening: YogaVibes Mobility Week 5

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    Myofascial Release for the Posterior Chain: YogaVibes Mobility Week 6

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome to this six-week series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with YogaVibes. These practices are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your daily mobility, and are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and...
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    How to Prevent Plantar Fasciitis (and Build Strong Feet)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes In my years as a coach, the most common goal I see clients pick for the new year involves running. And, sadly, that means a lot of people will be dealing with plantar fasciitis before they are too far into the year. Maybe they’re being confronted with it right around...
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    How to Have Healthier Hips and a Pain Free IT Band

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Unfortunately, whether you train regularly or if you don’t train at all, your hips are likely to become tight and restricted. The hips are designed to move in a wide array of angles, but many of us can’t access a significant amount of that range due, in large part, to our...
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    5 Easy Yoga Poses That Will Revitalize Your Tight Hips

    Reading Time: 6 minutes The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts Imagine what everyday life was like for our early ancestors. They were nomadic. They hunted and grew their own food. They washed clothes and dishes without the...
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    16 Free MovNat Videos: Follow Along for Better Mobility

    Reading Time: 3 minutes NOTE: The practices we share we with you are simply an example of the many ways that WLC game players can accomplish their daily mobility. These are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and the vast world of movement. MovNat stands for “moving...
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    14 Free Tune Up Fitness Videos: Follow Along with Jill Miller

    Reading Time: 3 minutes NOTE: The practices we share we with you are simply an example of the many ways that WLC game players can accomplish their daily mobility. These are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and the vast world of movement. With more than thirty years of...
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    6 Free HERO Movement Videos for Better Mobility

    Reading Time: 2 minutes NOTE: The practices we share we with you are simply an example of the many ways that WLC game players can accomplish their daily mobility. These are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and the vast world of movement. In this series of six free HERO...
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    Explore the World of Yoga: 6 Free Brett Larkin Videos

    Reading Time: 2 minutes NOTE: The practices we share we with you are simply an example of the many ways that WLC game players can accomplish their daily mobility. These are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and the vast world of movement. Despite the fact that it’s often...
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    6 Free Movement Vault Videos: How to Improve Your Mobility

    Reading Time: 2 minutes NOTE: The practices we share we with you are simply an example of the many ways that WLC game players can accomplish their daily mobility. These are intended to help you explore both your body’s potential and the vast world of movement. Dr. Grayson Wickham is a physical...
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    How to Prevent Shoulder Injury (by Mobilizing Your Teres Minor)

    Reading Time: 5 minutes For athletes whose training includes frequent overhead pressing or pulling, the risk of shoulder issues is high. This is an area that must be constantly maintained so we can avoid down time from our training or, worse, surgery on our shoulders. In my years as a coach...
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    How to Injury Proof Your Rotator Cuff

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Shoulder injuries are a common ailment among many of us who train frequently — and these days that seems to include younger and younger athletes, as well. We shouldn’t be living in a world where high school athletes are being sidelined due to surgery on their rotator cuff...
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    Mobility for Lifters: How to Warm Up, Cool Down, and Lift Bigger

    Reading Time: 3 minutes When done properly, weight training puts a healthy stress on your muscles, connective tissues, nervous system, and skeleton. Proper training requires that you get the body sufficiently warmed up before any lifting session and you cool down afterward. When it comes to...
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