While developing and maintaining good core strength is extremely helpful to protecting the spine and surrounding tissues against injury, it's equally important to work at improving usable strength of the trunk toward its end ranges. Read more
This is a simple 3-minute routine that I do twice daily to keep my shoulders optimally functional.
Start with your hands overlapped behind your back as high as you can comfortably place them. Gently roll back onto your bed or another comfortable surface. Repeat 5-10 times. Read more
Ross Stevens is the founder and CEO of NYDIG, a leading custody provider for institutions and sovereign states looking to adopt a bitcoin standard in their treasury reserve policies. Read more
A useful tool for building stronger and healthier lower extremities is a stable slant board.
Standing facing downhill, keep your core strong and upright with your arms in front of you and squat down as low as you comfortably can for multiple repetitions. Read more
For those who have asked what they can be monitoring to gauge how much pressure the global economy is facing, I can suggest keeping an eye on the Euro and Yen. Both have fallen mightily against the USD because while the U.S. central bank continues to raise its fed funds rate to combat inflation, the European and Japanese central banks have little choice but to continue printing their respective currencies to buy their own government bonds to keep yields low enough to avoid mass insolvencies. Read more
When doing pushing exercises like push-ups or dips, you can improve shoulder health and function by taking your upper body as low as possible during each repetition. When doing this with push-ups, you can use stable yoga blocks or parallette bars at varying heights to allow for greater range of motion and development of end-range strength. Read more
Last week, a longtime reader of our newsletter asked for a referral to a doctor I trust in the Chicagoland area. The first person who came to mind was a fellow named Dr. Michael Krys, a highly decent person who I remember from my days as an intern as being supremely honest, caring, and skilled as a health care provider. Read more
