Dooley Noted: 5/1/2015 The average person works 8 hours a day, five days a week. That means the average person spends 8 hours awake not on his or her career, and 8 hours asleep. That also means the average person spends 48 hours every weekend not working on their careers. Eight days every month are spent recharging on weekends. Add an extra seven days minus sleep if you count the fact it’s an 8-hour day. … Read more
Video Dooley Noted: 4/30/2015 In this video segment of Dooley Noted, I demonstrate a standing version of the active straight leg raise. This drill uses abdominal stability and breathing to encourage more range of motion in the hips, especially the hamstrings. Try this, along with the toe grab drill, to help with more healthy range in exercises like the toe touch, hip hinge, and pistol squat. Enjoy! As always, it’s your call. – Dr. Kathy … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/29/2015 Some people are great on their own, living for themselves and leading a great, self-servant life. Others are equally great but have a knack for connecting other people with potential to be great. I’ve had the honor of being guided by several envoys. One of my fitness envoys was Ari Harris. Ari is the owner of Pharaoh’s Army Fitness in Queens. He had the guts and gusto to leave a job personal … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/27/2015 I am 36 years old. It took me almost 30 years to appreciate the body I was gifted. In my youth, I was heckled for having large thighs. A few boys nicknamed me, “Thunderthighs.” In middle school, I remember playing four sports, then running extra on the weekends in attempts to “run off” my thighs. It didn’t work. In my high school community, I was not considered beautiful by most. I thought … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/25/2015 Today, I awoke before the sun rose. I laid on the balcony, staring at an ocean that made me feel small. Everything I accomplished in my life felt past tense and far away. I knew I had to do more. I walked into campus and thought about what I could do differently with students today. They feel small and somewhat defeated by head and neck anatomy. It’s hard. I know it well. … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/23/2015 After completing a barbell certification in March, I perceived hip pain in squatting for over a month. I knew I had unilateral pain in a bilateral pattern of squatting. So, I restricted myself from bilateral squatting to figure out the problem. I had some brilliant therapists give their expert opinions, and I took their advice to heart. I was disconnected with my right side, from great toe to temple. So, I regressed … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/22/2015 In anatomical academia, I am low on the totem pole. To my seasoned academic veterans of anatomy, I am still at the beginning of my career. In other circles, I am regarded as an anatomic expert. To my chiropractic colleagues, I have broken down walls. To my movement speciality colleagues, I’m encouraged to share what I’ve learned with no concern for accolades. To someone, you are at the top of your career. To … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/21/15 An old joke persists: If you tell your doctor it hurts when you do something, the doctor will likely tell you, “Don’t do that.” I truly believe this has pervaded our culture so much that certain movements and exercises have been avoided out of injury fears. People hurt some knees when squatting, so squatting became bad for the knees. Basketball and soccer had high incidents of ACL injury, therefore one shouldn’t play those … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/19/2015 I adore the family into which I was born. I miss them so deeply that I often count the days until I visit them. But it certainly wouldn’t be a healthy life not building a family of my own where I currently live. Children and a husband aren’t in my current cards. So, it was up to me to make a New York family for myself. And today, I deeply miss that … Read more
Dooley Noted: 4/16/2015 This week in practice, I picked up on a theme. As patients waited to see me, they saw some of the finest trainers on the planet helping their clients in our Catalyst SPORT family. Some of the girls admitted to me that they are worried. They expressed concern that I would encourage them to lift weights. They don’t talk of their fears of not being strong enough. (That was me.) They don’t … Read more