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Musculoskeletal assessment is a fundamental prerequisite to conditioning and training. I often lecture on its benefits because we know very little about the history of those we train. We know what they tell us, but that often does not include their complete training and injury history.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” ~Carl Jung

This is Part II of our series of bodyweight articles. If you missed Part I, click here.

A few square feet of floor and your own body. Enough equipment to get remarkably strong. Also enough equipment to make every mistake on the following list.

It’s ten at night, and I’m sprawled on the couch at the end of a long day, messaging an old friend from grad school. My wife is already in the slow process of heading to bed, the kids are asleep, and the house is quiet enough for a conversation to feel easy.

For most of my life, I had a second full-time job. Nobody hired me for it. Nobody paid me. But it ate more hours than anything else I did. The job was pretending to be normal.

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.” ~Mary Oliver 

“Children are not things to be molded, but people to be unfolded.” ~Jess Lair

“Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.” ~ Bessel van der Kolk

“I once heard someone say that a sign of enlightenment was the ability to say (and mean it) ‘Well, this isn’t what I want, but it’s what I got, so okay.’”~Syl