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Comment on How to Hula: Let the Hoop Guide You by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:14:53 +0000

Hi Jan,

It’s probably too heavy … I don’t hoop with weighted hoops … the tricks, etc. are with lighter ones … good luck! :-)

Comment on How to Hula: Let the Hoop Guide You by Jan

Jan — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:56:49 +0000

I am 60, bought 3 lb hoop and am having trouble keeping it up. Hooped for hours as a kid. Is it too heavy or do I need to keep practicing?

Comment on My Weekend at the Merrithew Mindful Movement World Tour by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:55:41 +0000

Hi M, It was definitely beneficial for me … picked up quite a few new moves for my repertoire and also really liked the whole Zenga approach to muscle/fascia release. It was cool.

Comment on How & When to Leave Your Trainer by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:54:54 +0000

I hear you. As a studio owner I sometimes get surprised by an instructor leaving … but usually I have a clue when it’s coming and we try our best to transition clients to a new person. Sometimes it works great and sometimes it’s a nightmare (both for me and for the client!). The reality is quite a few trainers are transient and will come and go looking for the next thing or just living their lives (moving out of the area, getting married, etc.). You facility should give you a few free sessions to try out new people and hopefully you’ll find another match. Ask for you trainer for an honest answer too … hopefully he’ll give you one. :) L–

Comment on Fitness Geek: What is Fascia? by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Sun, 19 May 2013 16:52:44 +0000

Lisa check out that PT Trigger place that we were talking about on the video … they were talking about how a roller isn’t effective with IT and how it is often the symptom, not the cause … it might be better to use those little balls, if you haven’t tried it yet … give it a go. I can recommend the Melt Method too … she’s highly regarded by everyone I’ve talked to so far …

Comment on My Weekend at the Merrithew Mindful Movement World Tour by M

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:15:27 +0000

Thanks for this post. I had a conflict and couldn’t make it to this, and I’d been wondering if there were any accounts around of someone who’d gone and felt it to be beneficial.

Comment on How & When to Leave Your Trainer by M

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:13:14 +0000

Lisa, I wish you were in NYC. My trainer is leaving — after having assured me, and apparently a few other clients, that he wouldn’t be, at least for awhile — and lots of people (including the owners) are in, to paraphrase a friend, in “some kind of state” about it.

(Even though I’d also had some thoughts, recently, that it felt a little like he was on “autopilot”, as you put it … and so I had some suspicions even then about his assurances, which I’m afraid I couldn’t stop myself from reminding him recently. But it’s hard, when you finally find someone with whom you click, whom you feel isn’t silently judging you because even though you work hard, you don’t quite look like an ABT principal yet … and with whom you’ve made sufficient progress that you could even tell your skeptic orthodoc “I told you so” (or at least hint at it with your face, LOLsigh). It’s really hard.

*little sob*)

Comment on Fitness Geek: What is Fascia? by Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:07:29 +0000

I hate my fascia. It’s the bane of my existence apparently! IT Band issues. Runner’s Knee…it never seems to end!

Comment on Fitness Geek: What is Fascia? by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:26:40 +0000

Glenneth you’ll find more and more buzz about fascia … at least the geeks in the fitness industry are really starting to hone in on it. Hopefully only good will come from it. L–

Comment on Did Dr. Oz Sell Out? by Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:26:07 +0000

Wow really? You’d think that would be part of graduation or something? L–