A Philosophy of Strength and Health

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The Man received the Presidential Medal of Freedom this week. He and wife Lil are fabulous people--treasures of our fair city. This video captures Stan's graciousness, modesty and sense of humor. Happy 90th Birthday to Stan Musial, one of America's finest athletes and citizens.

PB&J, aka Ryan Pierson , travels with his new team, the Northeastern University Huskies to Carbondale , IL for a game against the SIU -C Salukis tomorrow morning at 9 am CT. The game will be televised on ESPN as a part of their College Basketball Tip-Off Marathon . The game will also appear online on ESPN3 if you want to watch a replay later or need an online diversion during the day. Ryan was in the starting line up for the Huskies first game and victory over the Boston University Terriers last Friday, 66-64. He's #30 in the white jersey in the picture above. He tells me he is working hard and learning how to wrestle with the 7 ft + big dudes in practice. I'm looking forward to watching him play tomorrow. Guess I'm going to have to start calling him Soul Patch, since he's now sporting the very cool facial hair.

“@ StLouisSmack : @ pistl Can you buy by the slice in the restaurants?” thanks. We sell whole pies only. I have the same approach as Pi . There are no individual workouts posted here. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Every workout has a context, purpose and a goal. Not appropriate to sell by the slice.

Ready to bust out with "I'm a Little Tea Pot" at any moment! The new kids on the block have been working hard over the summer and fall months. Their genes have blessed them with great height at such a young age--all are only 16 years old--three of them just last month! But gravity, super long femurs, tight hamstrings and school desks conspire against their spines. Muscles and tendons are desperately trying to keep up. So we move and groove, building awareness, alignment, mobility and strength in hopes of creating frames that will be mechanically resilient and resistant to the pounding these guys face on the basketball and volleyball court. It takes time, patience and calories. And then more patience, more time, more calories, more reps, more sets, more purposeful mobility work to achieve the same movement competencies we ask of their shorter counterparts. For sure, each athlete has a few different tweaks to his programming and understands that he has specific issue