If you have ever had a great coach, you know that you have heard that coach’s voice inside their head during workouts for years afterward. You’re getting ready to knock off the workout early and you hear, “This is the point where you start to get in shape,” loud and clear from the absent coach. Or as you’re running …
In the 1980s, when I first started taking some of the world’s best athletes into the pool, my long-time companion Wilt Chamberlain had elbow surgery by Frank Jobe, M.D. to repair a triceps tendon he had torn playing racquetball. Wilt wanted to speed healing and we had learned that pool workouts certainly seemed to do that. Thus I took Wilt …
Ice is life’s most under-recognized drug and it needs no prescription. It’s right there in your freezer waiting for you. It’s easy to apply to an injury and quick to start working. When an injury occurs, immediate application of ice constricts the capillaries to help prevent bleeding and swelling in the injured and creating a bruise. The use of ice …
