Improve Your Baseball Biomechanics with The Cyto Advantage

Physics, angles, and trajectories are part of every throw, hit, catch, and run.

Help your child's mind and body calculate accurately and with power.

Skills and strategies only improve when the child's biomechanics improves. Repetition can help, but it can also reinforce poor mechanics. Coaching focuses on skills and strategies and sometimes task-oriented biomechanics. What is usually missing is the most important ingredient – your child's neuro-muscular mechanics.

With 630-plus muscles in the body, the athlete who learns to best control and utilize his muscles performs the best. The more muscles contributing to hitting, pitching, fielding, running, and catching gives more ability for your athlete to adjust, react, be accurate, have speed, and be powerful.

When you child has trouble getting his body to do what the coach is asking, it is because his dominant muscles are not those that make the desired motion. Identifying the muscles that are hindering progress and specifically training them gives the athlete the essential control to properly perform the task. The results are stellar.

The Cyto Advantages improves:

• Body Control                   
• Hand-Eye Coordination      
• Power                                
• Angles                                
• Timing                                
• Balance
• Contact
• Reflexes
• Spatial Judgment
• Speed

The Cyto Advantage helps your child:

• make the proper athletic stance
• keep balance in hips, knees, ankles, feet
• utilize their spine, ribs, shoulder and neck
• Rotate from the hips
• transfer weight from back to front while throwing, pitching, hitting
• react in every direction, 360 degrees when fielding and catching
• react to entire strike zone and margin
• respond in an incremental changes with the pitch
• judge distance for fielding, pitching, batting, running, sliding, throwing, catching
• discipline mind to respond quickly to adjust pitch
• control bat speed and position
• control arms – in and out, up and down, forward and back
• respond with foot work, balance, agility
• have speed, power, and endurance
• learn visual memory techniques
• control entire body: fingers to toes, even eyes
• control pitch with balance, accuracy, speed, timing, summation of forces
• prevent injuries
• correct injurious motions

Feel free to call or email. We are pleased to answer any questions you have.

Summer is the perfect time to get ready for your Fall, Winter, and Spring sports. Learn more. Take Action. GetAhead@TheCytoAdvantage.com

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Private and Group Baseball Lessons

Conditioning (Private to 10)
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Elite Levels available
2 Week Training Blocks MWF Early Mornings in the Summer
Notice considerable improvements in each session.
Conditioning cardiovascular and muscular endurance
Attention to stamina in all athletic positions during baseball
Improving speed and foot work under conditioning conditions

Hitting (Private) 
3 Week Training Blocks 15 minutes x 5 days/week
Develop the ability to:
          Maintain proper balance to cover the inside to outside pitch
          Keep knees properly bent to adjust
          Adjust your arms to each pitch
          Keep the power in your hips
          Maximize momentum with proper rotation
          Keep bat proper distance from the body
          Properly load and transfer power
          Properly time the swing to the pitch
          Use the power of the back and front side of your body
          Correlate proper mechanics with the feel and sound of the hit
          Maximize Mental, Emotional, See, Hear, Feel (MESHF) hitting strategy
       
Hitting Strength and Conditioning (Private to 2)
2 Week Training Blocks 1 Hour x 2 days
          Extensive Joint-Work to maximize power at ball impact
          Begin with adjusting to 27 positions and progress to thousands of positions
          Be able to keep the head on the ball while rotating
          Train eye muscles to track the ball
          Improve bat speed
          Adjust bat angle for different pitches
          Improve power through the ball
          Gain strength in wrist and elbows
          Maximize impact strength

Pitching (Private)
Sample Training with Manually Assisted Corrective Motions 1.5 hours
2 Week Training Blocks with Manually Assisted Corrective Motions 1 hour x 3 days/week
          Half hour freeing up joints needed during pitching
          Master the concentration, poise, and presence on the mound
          Properly load back joints
          Properly use front leg in the wind-up and set
          Insure back and front legs are maximized in force production
          Involve unused body segments

Pitching Strength and Conditioning (Private to 6)
          Develop stability on back and front legs
          Condition to maximize transfer of force to the ball
          Gain core strength to rotate the entire spine and keep head still
          Gain range of motion in both arms to direct forces forward
          Develop strength and control for each joint needed during pitching
          Condition the shoulders, elbows, wrists and fingers
          Condition the hips, knees, ankles, and toes

Pitching-Catching Group Lessons (2 to 6)

Catching (Private to 4)
       
Catching Strength and Conditioning (Private to 8)

Fielding-Base Running Group Lessons (6 to 10)

Fielding-Base Running Strength and Conditioning (Private to 10)

Contact us at GetAhead@TheCytoAdvantage.com for your first training session. Half hour, hour, one and a half hour, and two hour sessions available.

The Cyto Coaching Advantage

We are in the heart of baseball season, and my little league players are loving playing in this window of perfect warmth. I am helping the minor league Dodgers of Horizon Little League. Being the new kid on the block and looking more like a mom than an baseball player, I have held back from offering more than catching balls for our head coach during drills, tweaking foot positions, and reminding kids of the mental aspects of the game. For the areas that coaches can tell the kids different things, I have kept my science to myself-until we had our first loss last week.

As we assessed our unique roles in the loss, we all found areas we can improve. For me, it was seeing that our hitting had plateaued, half the team struggled to make contact, and I was not doing anything about it. I asked our head coach for some time with the kids.

I made it simple for them. The two most important areas to master are reading the pitch and maintaining balance. There are other things I didn't tell them yet, like how to make the full swing and transfer their weight between the back half of their bodies and the front, though I was working these in them. Nor did I mention that I was secretly teaching their minds and their bodies to respond to the pitch. But the effects were immediate.

We went on a hitting spree our last game. We out-hit a good team 24 to 3 without a weak spot in our line-up. Our pitching and defense were tops too.

We all do not like to lose, but a loss can be used to motivate us work on things we won't otherwise. As a coach, the most difficult areas to overcome in a child are the self-defeating mental components that interfere with learning. It is one my favorite challenges, and I look for opportunities to make the best athletes by breaking through these unnecessary limitations with simple solutions.

 Testimonials: from the Team:

“We have a new hitting guru. She got all the kids to hit better.”

Bill Koch

Head Coach

HLL Minors Dodgers

“You've really improved his balance and his confidence. And now he hits doubles.”

Trish Curtis

Trevor Curtis' Mother

Horizon Little League, Dodgers Minors 2011

“Jack's now got both feet on the ground. He didn't before. He was moving. Now he has balance, and he's swinging through the ball. He's swinging hard, and he swings through the center of the ball! He is hitting well.”

Mike Wagner

Jack Wagner's Father

Horizon Little League, Dodgers Minors

“I have been hitting farther. I'm keeping my weight balanced.”

Grant Mileski

Age 11

Horizon Little League, Dodgers Minors

“My pitching is amazing now. She has helped me a lot with power and accuracy. I can't believe how well it [the specific exercises she gave me] worked.”

Chase Hamilton

11 years old

Horizon Little League, Dodgers Minors 2011

HLL, Cubs Major 2011

Gain a Great Golf Game

Golf is a love-hate game of mastering mind and body. While the world of non-golfers might call it an expensive non-sport, golfers know that it is a beautiful obsession of perfecting the inner and outer man and enjoying nature from a unique perspective. Anyone who answers the calling of the competition with the biggest playing field knows that it is not just a silly, ball-chasing waste-of-time. It is a character-challenging sport. It requires persistence, a well-disciplined mind, judgment of spatial relationships unmatched by any other, plenty of physics calculations under various conditions, and amazing body control.

You are either one of the golfers that feels it is hopeless to improve your score and therefore play the game for fun, fresh air, and fellowship, or you are among the desperately competitive who outwardly or secretly aspire to achieve perfection and be the best. Your dedication to becoming a better golfer is reflected in how much time and money you pour into your game. Some of you, after years of trying to master each aspect of the game, have fallen short and fallen to frustration.

You just didn't know that you could easily restructure your body so you effortlessly rotate your spine, hips, knees and ankles and adjust precisely during every type of swing. No one told you that you can train your shoulders, elbows, wrists and hands to freely maintain stabilizing form without spending weeks to years laboriously trying to get them to re-pattern.

You are dependent upon increasingly equipping your body and mind to perfect the golf motions if you want to improve your score. The Cyto Advantages coaches you to make motions you need today so you can incorporate them today. No more spending frustrating hours trying to bend things that cannot hold position throughout rotation and straightening parts that don't have the muscular coordination.

Gain the control you need quickly by applying biomechanical laws. The Cyto Advantage will manually assist and coach you to add hundreds of your personalized priority motions for your sport. You will gain unprecedented mobility and stability so your swing is controlled, adjustable, consistent, and precise. This training program teaches your muscles and mind to judge the angles and distances while making you feel better and younger. Don't wait years to improve your score when you can experience the excitement of your new-found body now. Perfect your swing and putt. The Cyto Advantage is the advantage you have always wanted to control your body, your club, your ball and your game.

Get Back Into It

You've got backbone. Use it. As the expression implies, your fortitude attests to the ability of your back to support you. Your core strength reflects the core of what you can do. There are many ways to get a job done, but what would you do if you could get your back back into it? Twist, turn, pick things up from your back, bend over backwards, move in any direction you feel like moving.

You can have the back of your dreams. It is possible. It is not too difficult. This is your back. If it is not adequately accomplishing your goals, you need the backbone to make your backbone the support for your lifestyle. You need The Cyto Advantage to safely and expediently add many ranges of twisting and turning, bending and carrying, lifting and enjoying your craft and your life.

Whatever you want to accomplish depends upon your back. From sitting to standing, eating to playing, working and working and working, everything you do, even reading and sleeping, needs a strong back. You will do everything better with higher quality and more fun when you prioritize to take tender, loving care of your back.

When it comes to dealing with pain in your back, often I improve back instability by strengthening your legs down to your toes or your arms to your hands depending where you are having problems. This increases the participation of your limbs so that your limbs “carry their weight” and team with your back to improve stability and strength. I also manually improve motions in your back that you have had trouble making for years. This is often sufficient to improve the biomechanical causes of muscle strains and spasms, improper forces on disks, pinched nerves, and other problems due to imbalances and weaknesses.

Beyond simply getting rid of pain, I'd love to help you learn to control any or all of your precious back so you can live your dreams and do the good you desire. You have 630 plus muscles in your body. One hundred ninety-eight (198) of these attach to your ribs and vertebra of the back side of your trunk. They are there so you can have plenty of fine tuned motion and power. When you get to using your neglected muscles, you will be able to rotate, bend forward and backwards and to the sides in any combination to whatever extent that you want. Combine these with the front muscles of your trunk and the way your your hips, shoulders, and neck work with your back, and your core can produce substantially more control, accuracy and brute force than you currently can imagine.

Whatever your sport, whatever sleep habits, whatever your age, lifestyle, or goals, invest in your back to give back abundantly and last a lifetime. Get your back back on track. Move freely.  Getting back into it can happen within days to weeks.

Relax

Renewed life always means peace and tranquility. I've written mostly about the increases in your abilities with The Cyto Advantage. Today's blog emphasizes that improving your biomechanics means greater peace in your body.

When things are working well, there is order. When things are not feeling peaceful, your body feels the strain of things out of order.

This does not mean that when you train, you are not going to feel challenged. Improvements take discipline. However, discipline does not mean distress. Discipline to me means consistently applying what is good. I do not believe it is good to be distressed. I believe distress is another warning sign we are to heed if we want good health.

When I help you improve your biomechanics using my Precision Exercises or my Precision Manual Techniques, your joints and muscles feel looser and more relaxed. Your joints will be more stable, and your muscles will be stronger. Looser, relaxed, more mobile, stronger and more stable all go hand-in-hand. Together, these things are the foundation of greater power, faster reaction times, more speed, greater balance and efficiency, endurance and all good things that we want as athletes and participants in life. Even in the kitchen and walking the dog, these qualities help. You have much more available for your health and performance to excel as you advance in the application of knowledge.

We all have choices. We can choose what we want for our bodies. Many have been taught, “No pain, no gain.” But I do not agree with this paradigm. I believe pain will always warn us that there is a better way.

With every session, your biomechanics improve substantially and so does the organization of your body. You feel better, more relaxed, looser and your body feels more at peace. You make gains in performance and activity levels while reducing stresses and strains. When you can make the time to treat your body to the care it needs, call The Cyto Advantage to train you well and leave you relaxed.

Having Happy Shoulders

All your joints are special, but your shoulder joint is amazing. Not only does it have the greatest ranges of motions, but the integration it has with your elbow, wrists, hands, rib cage, head, neck and rest of your spine is astounding. Add the timing it has with your legs when you're walking or running and you can see why so much of your life hinges around a well-functioning shoulder.

Your shoulder joint is unique because of the shoulder blade. The shoulder blade is controlled by 24 muscles, articulates with two bones and coordinates motions with 35 more bones (your head, 7 neck bones, 12 mid back vertebra, 8 ribs, 5 low back vertebra, sacrum, and your sternum).

A lot goes on to provide dexterity, coordination, large and small motions, and strength and power. With all that the shoulder blade offers, it is one of the least understood and most important contributor to the shoulder motion. Do not overlook it or underestimate its potential to help you excel in your sports, daily activities, and to rehab.

If you are having shoulder problems, you simply need to understand which muscles are weak and strengthen them. Shoulder instability, pain, and weakness result from not adequately involving the 24 governing muscles into your routine. By the time you have notable problems, your elbow, wrists, hands, rib cage, and spine are also out of place due to weakness patterns.

Correcting the patterns comes quickly by regaining strength in the highest priority ranges and freedom of motion in the surrounding joints and at the shoulder. You may have incurred damage to tendons, muscles, and other tissues, but these can heal when the complex shoulder girdle is brought back to order. Once we apply the knowledge of how the shoulder is integrated with the surrounding joints and the shoulder blade, your shoulder and you'll be back in the swing of things within days or weeks. Having happy shoulders is within your reach!

Strong Ankles Can Change Your Life

You are just stepping off the curb or playing tennis, when, “Ouch,” you tweak your ankle. No matter whether you are doing something routine or are demanding a lot from your body, if you are caught with weakness and instability, your joint shifts excessively and the tendons and muscles are traumatized.

You may do Yoga and Pilates. You may walk and jog. You may lift weights or do very little. You may get massages, do postural training, have a personal trainer. The question remains, “Why do I have weak ankles?” 

This video shows the how the ankle responds to high forces.  Note that the defender is strong, but it is his being caught with the inability to match the force that causes the destabilization of the joint.  For the athlete wanting to out-compete another athlete, it will take priority-strengthening the ankle and the rest of his body to redistribute the forces rapidly and appropriately.  To keep from wobbling or falling from a "twisted ankle," the concept is the same.  Strength must meet demand or the ankle gives way to weakness.

What helps the body to recover and repair quickly and what prevents the injuries are the same: Empower muscles of many areas of your body to permanently maintain repositioning of your ankle joint during motion. This is dynamic stabilization.   When you do this, you take the strain off the at-risk or hurting tissues to promote healing, and the pain subsides. 

Static stabilization attempts to statically position the joint for healing.  Co-contractions, rest, immobilization, taping, braces, and static positioning methods support healing by restricting and limiting motion.  “Twisting” your ankle does not happen “statically,” that is, when you are not moving.  Instead of restricting or limiting your body's motions and your rate of healing, you can reduce your recovery time and gain priority ranges as you improve with dynamic stabilization.

Your ankle, as simple as it may look, is very complex in its ranges. With the contribution of the many bones of your foot and the way the two bones of your shin move with the ankle and the knee, you cannot expect dynamic strength gains unless you prioritize and purposefully train the ranges of the surrounding joints.

For an older person, even a dozen priority ranges could give you the stability on your feet that could save your life and quality of life. It can keep you from hitting your head, breaking your hip, depending on a walker, or wheelchair. If you are an athlete, it ought to excite you that you can gain such a clear advantage as you out-maneuver your competition, improve your speed and accuracy, and keep from serious career-costing injuries in your feet, ankles, knees and hips. Having strong ankles can change your life. 

Realize the Goals

From my contribution to today's Performance Analysis Group discussion:

In transition, biomechanical screenings would help prevent injuries, but ideally it is the proactive involvement of the athlete and the design of the training programs that must be suited to prevent injuries. At the foundation, all professions that involve the body must understand the significance of biomechanics, and athletes too must be attached to this knowledge. The paradigm today supports injury, first because education has been too sterile (meaning, compartmentalized and not practical).

It is important that professionals in our field and end-users shift to promoting education and research in the private sector. The competitive market is more aggressive in practicality. From experience, the university setting has many drawbacks for progress; the two most damaging are thinking their knowledge and approach to learning provides the best and only way and being paid to research only and not as a combined effort of research and application.  This comment is to highlight the paradigm.  I am not implying all in the university setting think and act this way.

To transition under our current education model, education must occur early and more comprehensively.  We must promote that learning anatomy, physics, biology, and chemistry have practical power to transform lives and prevent life-changing injuries. Athletes also need to be trained to know their body, not simply to know their sport. This would mean coaches, teachers, and parents too must have a strong grasp to pass this on. We are headed this way. The more we realize the goals, the better we can fulfill them.

Giving You The Most

Here are the top ten qualities The Cyto Advantage maximizes for you:

1. Trains You Towards Ideal
2. Prioritizes Motions for Individual Needs
3. Frees Up Ranges Of Motion
4. Isolates Cooperative Movements in Your Core, Digits, and Limbs
5. Integrates Strength and Accuracy with Mental and Physical Conditioning
6. Strengthens For Dynamic Stability, Giving Pain Free Power
7. Enhances Efficiency for Endurance
8. Supplies Resources To Surpass Your Demand
9. Coordinates Organ Support
10. Optimizes Movements, Time and Efforts

My dozen key Precision Training words are Ideal, Specificity, Prioritize, Free, Isolate, Integrate, Stabilize Dynamically, Resources, Organ Support, Optimize.

Physics and physical laws cannot be escaped.  When we understand and apply them, they help us discern what is harmful and beneficial. You can do many more things with the quality of life you want when you apply these laws and principles in an organized fashion.

To do this, you would need to know what is ideal function. You need to know which of your 630 plus muscles are your top priority and how to train them in their three dimensions. You would need to be able to free up each joint to minimize restrictions, know how each muscles cooperates to provide dynamic stability, and how to teach your mind and body to do what quickly facilitates strength, accuracy, stability, efficiency and endurance gains.

You would need to know how the joints cooperate with each other to take care of problematic areas. If you had chronic and/or intense problems, you would need to take greater care at singling out which specific ranges of motions would counter balance the destabilizing forces and how to get these weak muscles to participate and the dominant muscles to relinquish control.

You likely have heard about glucosamine and chondroitin or are possibly taking them. To really get toward ideal function, you would need to know what repairs all the joints tissues, how the blood and lymph carry nutrients and wastes, and which quality and individual nutrients in your supplements and diet would enable your muscles to re-stabilize your joints. If you weren't healing quickly, you would need to know how to problem solve where you were missing the fix. Correction as we get older takes more than just exercise as many find out.

All through the years, our different organ systems would compete for resources. When we were young, most of us had the grace of growth hormone and sufficient enzymes to bring repair while we were naive. As we age, we are required to take more responsibility to eat and sleep well and increasingly know what we can do to support the integration of our organ systems to repair and heal. All systems are important for helping your musculoskeletal system. Your musculoskeletal system is important for helping all your organs.

My decades of attention to coordinating these details are why I can optimize your movements, time, and efforts for you. Knowledge building and change often takes time. This is why I believe investing in my help for your body gives you your best return on your time, money, and efforts. Your body is your most important tool. Care for it well.

Your Personal Body Mechanic

I believe your body has a specific layout design offering ideal function. My research and experience enables me to point your joints, mind and supporting organs towards ideal. You  may never be perfect, but you can move as close to ideal as you choose.  At whatever rate you want to move towards ideal, my unique and proprietary techniques can help you.

You have hundreds of joints with 600-plus muscles controlling them. Each joint and muscle affects the others considerably. Within hours, I gently help you feel and function better. As a result, you will move more freely and securely with greater stability. The more your joints move towards ideal, in balancing ranges and with detailed accuracy, the fewer problems you have, the more control you master, and the better you feel and look. 

Your body mechanics supports you to live happily. What more can you do with a well-working body?

Some people just want their car to get them from point A to point B. If it breaks down once in a while, it's okay. They accept that the inconvenience is to be expected. However, some people want their cars to run well, quietly, dependably, with good efficiency, nice looks, and longevity. As your personal body mechanic, I am there for you when your body breaks down, but I have gone through great lengths and sacrifices to be the mechanic that can equip and detail you to be the prized collectible and exhibition piece with prestigious Indy performance for your sport and/or your daily life, relationships and life's events. 

When I improve the physics behind your motions, your body can better serve you to fulfill your ambitions.  Advancing your body mechanics overcomes wear and tear so you play your sport better and longer and can carry out your daily activities and goals with more strength, poise, and joy in your steps.

Feel free to email me questions.  Join with me, "your personal body mechanic," to help others understand and utilize the valuable expertise of The Cyto Advantage.

The Power of Biomechanics

Biomechanists from our Sports Performance Analysis group on LinkedIn had a discussion yesterday. The question was posed, “Does anyone have any idea why the uptake and use of advanced biomechanics and kinematic data is largely restricted to University labs and a wealth of overwhelming evidence is not used in professional sport?” Do we sound like science nerds?

My contribution was, “We [biomechanists] offer the finest tuning at the root of motion. Acceptance and understanding have come a long way for the other professionals contributing to performance training. We just need to keep plugging away.” So, I keep plugging away, researching, applying, and educating. I believe our time will come.

Meanwhile, let me show you a video which exemplifies the body's ability to perform what the mind calculates. Robert Carlos, on February 21, 1998, did what he trained to do. You will see the payoff for learning how to use rotational physics to his advantage. To do this, he taught his muscles in many ranges to respond to what he trained his mind to accurately judge. He diligently mastered being able to supply his body to meet his high demand. His phenomenal feat did not happen by accident. Watch his other amazing goals and check out other elite soccer players to verify that they are mastering the mind with the body.  They have as many muscles and bones as you do.  

What I offer as your biomechanical specialist are the means for you to do whatever you want your body to do. I am prepared to help you gain control and confidence in your body to whatever level you want. From cosmetic and overcoming joint problems to incredible strength and ranges of motions, you and I hold power to upgrade your life and its activities by elevating your biomechanics.

No Weak-End Warriors

Do you dream about the good ol' days when you were young enough to do just about anything you wanted?  Now, however, are you too busy or feeling it too unimportant to get out there and really train? Yet, once in a while, are you allured by pick up games or outdoor adventures that tempt you to strut your ol' stuff? 

Your friends invite you to play regularly. You're too busy, too tired, or too crippled. Your co-worker suggests golf, a hike, or a mountain bike adventure. The boys are going to the park to play some touch football, and there is a pick up game of basketball with some buddies. At some point, you join in. You remember the last time you did this and decide to stretch this time. The next thing you know you are huffing and puffing, a little concerned, but having too much fun and too many flashbacks to be cautious. Maybe, you even show off a bit.  The next day, once again, you are sore, stiff, and gimping along. You'll remember next time.

Why not get out there and train during the week? Why put yourself at risk every time you want to have fun? No more last minute sports decisions that make you feel inferior so you have to try to prove something, and the only thing you prove is that you really are out of shape.

To go from out of shape to in shape is different than what we went through to get in shape when we were young. Now the loss of muscle, poor posture, spare tire, or achy joints are hurdles we do not know if we can overcome. How much time will it take? How much work will it take?

If you can get to Scottsdale, my specialty is giving you a direct path towards getting the good ol' young body back again. Your pain-reducing, quick gains in strength and stability spur you on and so does improving quickly in your sports interests. I have noticed that fat is retained closest to under-used muscles. My Precision Training targets the weak muscles so you can improve in all areas, slim down and appear more slender within days to weeks.

So don't get caught being a Weak-End Warrior. Get back on top of your game. Re-laying a strong foundation for you to get back into the swing of things is only a matter of weeks away with The CytoAdvantage. Take action. Your body is your most important tool.

In tribute to Jack LaLanne, who passed last Sunday at age 96, here are a few quotes:

"The only way you can hurt the body is not use it. Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late."  "Exercise is king; nutrition is queen."

"God helps them who helps themselves. He gives you the power to do it - you've got to do it! People overeat, get fat, get sick and then pray to God. In life, there are certain rules you must follow."  "Life is like an athletic event. You've got to have goals and challenges. What's a good education and making good money if you don't have your health? You have to work at your health!"
Thanks Kimberly Garrison:  Fitness Icon Is Gone

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Elite Athletes, Examples for Health and Life

I love training elite athletes because I can apply the facets of my expertise to the fullest.  If you want to improve towards any personal goal, the examples of elite athletes comprise a good model for you.

What is an elite athlete? Elite has to do with being the most skilled in your group. Once you've made it to this category in your sport, the goal naturally is to be the elite of the elite.

The best are the most able to control their bodies. The elite athletes have relatively more mental control, connection, and “attachment” to their bodies. Key number one, if you want to be one of the best, focus on training your mental control of and connection to your motions.

Two, the best athletes are students of their sport. There is not one elite athlete who didn't discipline himself (or herself) in the study of his sport's motions. Elite athletes observe others and study the needed angles and plays to improve the physics behind those motions. Key number two is master the physics of your body and of your sport mechanics.

Then, they practice the motions over and over. If they do them correctly, they improve. If the balance of their muscles are not strong enough to maintain stability to support the forces, they plateau or suffer injuries. Number three is elite athletes are diligent to train as perfectly as possible.

Number four is elite athletes quickly receive instruction from experts for corrections. To stay elite, it is critical the athlete continues to learn and be helped. They must correct the injuries and not have the plateaus.  If they do not find the help they need, the alternative for many top athletes is to be like Sandy Koufax and accept the high level they achieved and graciously exit their sport, or like Karl Lewis, rest, train, and wane until they can not continue. 

Probably the strongest defining point for maintaining the competence of being an elite athlete is training the weaker areas to prevent injuries and to not incur plateaus. Karl Lewis and Sandy Koufax competed in significant pain. Though they did all four of the other steps, they and many athletes did and do not know how to correct significant weaknesses and imbalances. Older professional athletes are humble enough to work on their weaknesses for years, and it pays off.

Even with these, athletes have not come close to reaching their potential in identifying weaknesses, training important ranges, and exceeding current elite levels. Professional sports continues to improve, but the injuries, plateaus, and inability to execute what the coaches envision are due to limitations in training muscle biomechanics.  Proper training will take care of these and can step up each sport to an incredible new level. 
 
Everyone can take their health to a new level by improving in like manner. By properly discerning and developing weaknesses and strengths, every athlete and everybody can progress and enjoy themselves longer and stronger. May you enjoy the best of health and performance now and for life.

Strong Enough To Be Healthy

Health is the strength to do what is healthy. What we choose and how we do it must be healthy for us to have health.  Health is all encompassing to our existence. 

Emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health all support each other. For instance, you more likely become cranky and are less likely to perform well when you do not get enough sleep or food. To get adequate sleep and proper nutrition require planning, determination, and study. The disciplines of repetition, pushing ourselves, and building upon successes and failures lay the foundation to consistently not be cranky and to perform well. 

Your health depends upon your foundation to master stresses. You cannot improve without being stressed. In sports, an athlete cannot perform well without the challenges of pushing his or her body past comfort. Knowledge is not learned without effort. Loving someone does not happen without overcoming problems.  We cannot advance without stressing ourselves. Yet, stress is the number one killer. Thus, health in every arena relies upon our ability to discern how to healthily involve stress and respond to stressful situations and looking for the best and healthiest solutions.

To manage your health, you must become aware of the many decisions you make in each day. You cannot be sloppy about what you choose. Simply ask, “Will this decision help my health or harm it?” “Is my attitude healthy?” “Ten, twenty, thirty years from now, will I be healthier for this decision?” You usually know the answers, so make the healthy choice. Your healthy choice will always make you stronger emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. When you are uncertain, make the best decision possible. Then, stay curious and cautious so you can be ready to correct anything unhealthy.

Remember, it is healthy to be at peace, to be humble, compassionate, and thankful, to have proper boundaries, and to be loving. It is healthy to rise to challenges, reach beyond risk, help, support and take care of those around you in a healthy way. Health is powerful to make everything about you healthy and strong.  Your work, your sports performance, you grades, your relationships, and your teamwork will all advance when you improve your health. And you will feel healthy about yourself.  Be strong and healthy.

Your Body Has So Much Potential

Guaranteed, your body can make more motions. You know what a googol is.  It is one with a hundred zeros following it.  Square it, and you are still under the number of defining positions for the motions your body can make.  Take ranges of motion between the defining positions and you have a lifetime of ranges you can elevate. Potential? Yes. Practical? No. Helpful when it comes to pain and performance? Very.

We witness top athletes pushing their bodies to new limits. Some sports demand more diversity of motions than others, but as any athlete knows, just because he can swing a bat or a club, it doesn't mean he can ice skate. I can swim faster and longer than most big, buff, champion wrestlers or football players even being twenty to thirty years their senior! And there are eighty year old marathon runners, male and female, who can whip my bootie. This says a lot about muscle function. It is very specific and is not age-dependent.

When I train you, I put you in the positions you need to bring stability to your joints. I coach you to move in ranges you didn't know you had. I also am very specific at improving the motions of your sport or daily activities and gaining the fine tuning necessary to be considerably more accurate and capable.

When you want to be more active, be able to walk longer, be available to do more in your day, or compete at max, your body potential is waiting to be gained.  Good news is, when you have problems, you have greatly missed that joint or area's potential.  It is simply deficit in important, specific, stabilizing ranges.  Training your body quickly to do what it hasn't been doing is The Cyto Advantage. Don't miss your amazing potential

Measuring Your Health by Your Density

Good Morning! This morning I went to Trader Joe's and and was reminded of the goodness in a freshly, fully-packed pantry.  The displays were full of abundance and life.  I walked out of there saying, "Always shop (for healthy food) on an empty stomach."Many people are not used to thinking of their bodies as a pantry. Your organs are not only for use but for storage.  I liken your body to many bank accounts that belong to one owner. The owner often borrows from one area to build another. Your muscular system, when not in use, is often called upon to give up resources to be used elsewhere. This is why someone in a traumatic accident or after a stroke will lose so much muscle tissue. The more nutrients you store, the more dense you become. When you have more fats and carbohydrates than you do nutrition and than you have need for them, you store these as fat.  Storing fat is good unless it becomes a burden and you are unable to use it.  The way to become dense is to choose nutrient rich foods and to do activities that use these nutrients.  You also must sleep for maintenance and repair. You can make your muscles more dense by use and your brain too.  All your organs can become more dense. You have heard that some people have "thicker skin!" You can even strengthen your emotions all by learning how to become more dense. The flip side of become dense is to become buoyant.  (I say this lightly.) Fat can be heavy, and it can become laden with waste and toxins, but it weighs less per cubic inch than organs and muscles.  We become buoyant when we lose nutritional density in our hormonal and other systems. The key to reversing excess fat, no matter whether it is due to overeating, diabetes, or some other disease, is to choose to become well-stocked and dense with nutrients. You can get the good nutrients you need to become nutrient dense by consuming substances that have lots of nutrients like spices, herbs, juices, fruits, sea and land vegetables, meats, and unrefined, quality oils. You must have good quality fats and oils to become nutrient dense.  (Who has room for processed foods when you are busy enjoying all the flavor and abundance in the real foods?)  You can take concentrated nutrients in externally using those same high quality oils, highest quality essential oils, spices, herbs, Epsom and other salts, kelp and much more. The key to "Maximizing quality in" is discerning and choosing what gives you the healthiest array of nutrients.

Are You Ready For Healing?

These are a few questions to ask yourself.  If you seriously ponder them, they can help you prepare to heal. 

Do you want your body to work the best it can?

Do you believe you can heal?

Have you asked questions where you have doubts?

Do you like the way your body is working?

Do you want your body to work better?

Are you amply taking care of your health?

How serious are you about correcting your problem to the best of your ability?

Will you make the time that is needed to undo and prevent damage?

Do you think your body is worth more than your car or house?

Do you value your body?

Living Fully

There are many important components to living fully which are uniquely yours. Today, we will rally around your precious body and the vigor you need to enjoy your dreams, goals, and daily life.

Everything you love, you do with vigor. From ambitions to vices, what you set your mind upon, you set out to do.  However, fulfilling what you want to accomplish can be limited or stopped short by your body.

You depend upon your body. Whether it be sitting at a desk taking care of business, being in a tickle match with your grandkids, or training for a marathon, your body needs to hold up to your daily demands.

Some say, "Use it or lose it." Others rely on, "Practicing perfectly makes perfect."  I add, “Maximize quality to optimize life," and "Build life each day."  While you can live joyfully with a struggling body, your living fully is supported by your body being at its best.  Is your body at its best?

As the graph depicts, when you consistently invest in your body so you cannot go backwards, you will maximize your upward progress more quickly than you imagined possible. Your success is only a few important steps away.

Notice how the beginning changes are smaller. Expect this with your body. Your first days of The Cyto Advantage are significant, but what happens in the next week is substantial.  Within a few weeks, you change your poor biomechanics and enjoy a renewed life.  It can happen this fast when we work together optimally and purposefully.

Taking care of your body to live fully means I give you the most refreshing motions either manually or through very unique and precise exercises. As you and I discover your weaknesses, we work together to fix them.  You learn to do motions you are missing.  At the onset, it takes concentrated time, effort and money, but as you fulfill the needed changes in your body, you recuperate the cost with the results of renewed health and life. What could take years or never happen can happen quickly with The Cyto Advantage. 

Do you have the vigor to gain a renewed life? Reversing problematic biomechanics is a call and a few weeks away. Living fully is then up to you. 

Why Biomechanics?

Biomechanics is not a common term. I am frequently asked, "What is biomechanics?" and "What does a biomechanist do?" Biomechanics is the physics behind how your body works. The word means body or life mechanics. Your body performs biomechanically every day, with every move.

Biomechanists are usually associated with fitting prosthetics and with baseball pitching analysis. However, your body is special enough to be assisted with such caring, careful precision. While there are not enough biomechanists to meet the biomechanical needs of everyone now, I have vision for a body mechanics shop at every corner.

Why? Biomechanist are needed because movement is so important and still very underrated. Biomechanists would improve children's physical development, athletes' performances, businessmen's golf games, and how well everyone at every age would work and enjoy life.   

As a biomechanist, I study the many ways you move. I note where your movements are strong, dominant, and creating imbalances and evaluate where your movements are restricted, weak, and unstable.

Then I help you move in the needed, biomechanically under-used ranges. How I help you is very specific and unique to your needs. Each precise motion you will make improves your biomechanics.  As your muscles and joints work better, you feel better, and your joint structures can heal.

Turning Your Body Around

Today's post builds upon what I shared in earlier blogs and may be more meaningful if you read one or more of my previous postings. You can find them by scrolling down or clicking on a Blog Archive title in the column to the right.

Your body is designed with a tremendous margin of tolerance, meaning, there is significant deviation from ideal before you feel symptoms. For a healthy body, the first symptoms are mild. Thus, unless you know to pay attention, you may unintentionally ignore them.

Major problems are usually long preceded by noticeable warnings. Even traumatic injuries usually occur at the “weaker links” of your structure and heal more quickly in people whose bodies are closer to ideal and to the margin of tolerance.

Beyond the margin of tolerance, is the margin of intolerance. Within this range, symptoms increase because you increasingly should not tolerate them. If you do not heed the intolerable tension, discomfort, pain or lowered function and if you accept what is not normal, you move your body into a margin of significant intolerance. 

In the margin of significant intolerance, your body is miserable from being chronically ignored.  You demand it to perform though it writhes in pain. Meanwhile, your mind continues frustrated and your body continues to hurt as you enter into the margin of failure.

In the margin of failure, aspects of your lifestyle and previously important activities come to a halt.  You may struggle to meet your basic physical needs, such as cleaning, cooking, even dressing and sleeping.  You may think it has to do with disinterest, being tired, or laziness, but these often occur because of decreased bodily functions.

Now what? You realize that you are heading away from ideal.  You have to do something. Something needs to change.

Your mind must assist the body, for the body is first dependent upon the mind. The mind is dependent upon the body to carry out its tasks. In return, you must adequately, even amply, give to your one and only, truly amazing, helpful and necessary servant, your body.

People in longstanding pain and dysfunction must soul search if they want to have a renewed life. A renewed life is comprehensive; and, it is a joy that proper changes bring rewards. Renewal of life means that the old, stale, not-working philosophy is replaced with one that sustains a fresh, healthy, genuinely better quality of life.

Discussing Medication, Surgery, Miracle Healing

Sometimes taking pain-pills, having a surgery or receiving a miraculous healing makes the body feel better. When these situations bring relief, the recipient is given a second chance to take initiative for their own health. If the mind doesn't have a healthy care for the body, the better feeling will not last long. As far as I've witnessed, if the recipient doesn't use the better health to further help the body parts to work better, then the pain comes back, often worse and differently with certain surgeries and pain-masking medications.

There are many who are disappointed and still in pain who have tried to be proactive, prayed for miraculous healings, or have endured failed surgeries.  If this is you, you still can meet the needs of your body.  Your quest must continue to properly support joint and muscular function.  Adequate improvements are always needed to truly heal.

Step Three for Mastering Your Physical You

There are many healing philosophies. Your health depends upon discerning flaws and accuracies in what you believe and others share.  Knowing how to correctly care for your joint and body health depends upon understanding basic science concepts.   I hope my quick and meaty presentation adds confidence and excitement that you can Master Your Physical You.

Your body is meant to heal. You must be able to heal to be healthy. Every cell has three health-critical functions: protect, provide, replicate.

Each of your cells must protect itself.  Its cell wall must escort wastes out. It needs to defend against bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic attacks and resist harmful substances. It must detoxify when poisoned.

The cells of your different organs provide their unique contributions. Your muscle cells contract and relax. Your brain cells conduct electrical and relay chemical messages.  Your bone cells balance strength and resiliency and produce blood cells. Similar but different nutrition and energy run the cells of each of your organs.

Your cell quality and quantity are dependent upon reliable replication. Certain blood cells live a few days and other, such as you liver cells, live for about 5 months.  Your muscle cells last around 15 years. While cells die, you can keep living. . . only because your cells make new cells, and they don't all die at once. You must make well-functioning new cells. Otherwise, your cells' abilities to properly protect themselves and do their tasks wane until you have system failures such as torn tendons, scoliosis, adrenal exhaustion, or diabetes. When do you die? When cellular health and function are significantly disrupted and cells cannot adequately repair.

For your musculoskeletal system, torn tissues and skewed structure are the result of inadequate nutrient and energy supply and insufficient training of weaker muscles.  When you give your muscle cell their required nutrients and appropriate training, your muscles can properly performs their tasks.

Nutrients are concentrated in herbs, spices, beverages, and foods. What they offers varies in quality and density depends on how they were grown, harvested, stored, and prepared. These consumables transfer their chemical and electrical energy to equip your cells to protect, provide and replicate.

External mechanical, thermal, chemical, and electrical energy can also transfer internally by their unique properties to your joint structures.  These sources of healing can come from training, exercise, bodywork, the sun, heat, essential oils, wind, and devices that produce current, polarities, oxygen, hydrogen or other things found to support cellular health. They have varying qualities and concentrations that affect the rate and permanency of your healing.

The tendency for your body to head towards chaos (1st Law of Thermodynamics) and the ability for you to transfer energy into you to overcome the chaos (2nd Law of Thermodynamics) give us valuable insight.  Random choices lead to increasing randomness. Orderly choices bring increasing order.

Your improvement depends upon improving order in your body and the transfer of energy to fill the deficits. With better choices, you are rewarded with more thorough, efficient, and long-lasting renewal.

Step Two for Mastering Your Physical You

Once you believe that your highly important body is a top priority, your next step is to begin to meet its needs with what you already know. These are the things you do not need to find out if they are true or not. It is obvious. Go ahead, list what you know.

On this list will be get adequate sleep, eat well, breathe, rest, don't push through the pain, drink enough water, don't overreact to stressful situations. Another important basic is doing the things you say that you should and shouldn't do. Usually, you know what and when you need to do something. Your accuracy improves as you practice discerning your self-talk. When you catch yourself saying, “I should do _____” or I shouldn't do ______”, then develop the discipline to check whether you are right... if you are, then follow-through.

These are the basic things your body requires to heal. If you had done this over the years, you likely would not have pain or problems today. Chronic conditions become longstanding because you have continually overstepped your own boundaries. You have chosen to disregard the basic needs for being healthy. Traumatic injuries heal more rapidly when you do these things.  Some are minimized or prevented when you have strong health before the trauma.

On your list of things you already know you should do may be to exercise, walk, get out more, play and have fun, work harder, smarter, less or more. Just remember not to push through pain to do any of these things. You may need to push past gravity, resistance, laziness, or rebellion!  This type of commitment to prudence and diligence is another basic necessity for health.

As you daily practice these things, remember to be appreciate and enjoy your life and others'. Your health and peacefulness are dependent upon it.

Step One for Mastering Your Physical You

Prioritizing and organizing. Everything that you do well depends upon these disciplines. Knowing the inner workings of your body may seem overwhelming, unobtainable or nebulous, but that does not minimize your need to master prioritizing and organizing on behalf of your body.

Whatever is holding you back from properly responding to the needs of your body is what you must master first. Your body, as competent and important as it is, is completely dependent upon you to care for it. Usually, people do not believe they can or are meant to do anything about the pain and problems. They believe they are victims of their own bodies. People also do not respond properly because they think they are too tired, too poor, too ignorant, too low on time, too lazy, or too cheap.  These are all a matter of priority.

What is holding you back from meeting the needs of your body? Some thought and devotion must be spent to identify where you rank the importance of your health.  Your body is more important than the car that transports you. Your health is more important than the shelter that protects you. Your body and senses give you the ability to enjoy you toys of technology now and hopefully for years to come. Do you treat your body with the esteem and reverence that you do for your most prized possessions and hobbies?

When your body's health has its rightful place, you will organize your life to maintain health.  You will be glad to serve your body with energy, time, money, diligence and good decisions. You will take responsibility to provide adequate and enduring support to keep yourself functioning and strong for years to come. You will learn to love and be thoughtful towards your precious body. Serve it well, and it will serve you well.  May your health last you a fulfilling lifetime.