“Heed these words, you who wish to probe the depths of Nature: If you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither will you find it outside. If you ignore the wonders of your own house, how do you expect to find other wonders? In you is hidden the Treasures of Treasures. Know Thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods.”
Minimize Injuries, Maximize Performance
Intelligent solutions seeking out marginal gains: Those one percent differentiators that will take you from good to great.
The primary limiters of human physical movement and performance is our biological state and how well we interact with the ground and gravity. Our ability to function and perform is limited by how well we can recover from a multitude of seen and unseen stressors, in addition to managing ground reaction forces that move up the body and cause injury problems. At Upright movement, we have previously addressed these limits with our Regeneration Guidelines, Daily Regeneration Monitor, Daily Readiness Index, Standards, Movement Signature, and now our Daily Readiness Manager.
We feel that UpRight Movement has a responsibility to you and thus we are constantly evolving to be better, so that you’re better, and able to pass that “better” along to others in your life.
We think of the Daily Readiness Manager as a “Pre-Flight Checklist” that can help you achieve the results you want. Aid your Recovery, Health and manage Stress so you can feel better, move better, and perform better! The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. UpRight Movement is a Force Multiplier supporting you with its Regeneration Guidelines.
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Generally, fitness is assessed in four key areas: aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
UpRight Movement takes fitness Further.
The UpRight Movement program goals are to optimize human locomotion, health, and fitness (utilizing sound fundamental, transitional, and functional movement patterns balanced with recovery). This helps restore True fitness: the ability to consistently thrive and function within the demands of your environment.
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
We view fitness, like life, as a big picture, long term process… So we created a checklist to help us all measure our daily progress toward success. We understand how it feels to be busy, and know that sometimes you don’t have more than a minute or two in your day to check in with your wellness and fitness goals.
The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. For further assistance see UpRight Movement’s Regeneration Guidelines.
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Minimize Injuries, Maximize Performance
Intelligent solutions seeking out marginal gains: Those one percent differentiators that will take you from good to great.
The primary limiters of human physical movement and performance is our biological state and how well we interact with the ground and gravity. Our ability to function and perform is limited by how well we can recover from a multitude of seen and unseen stressors, in addition to managing ground reaction forces that move up the body and cause injury problems. At Upright movement, we have previously addressed these limits with our Regeneration Guidelines, Daily Regeneration Monitor, Standards, Movement Signature, and now our Daily Readiness Index.
We feel that UpRight Movement has a responsibility to you and thus we are constantly evolving to be better, so that you’re better, and able to pass that “better” along to others in your life.
We think of the Daily Readiness Index as a “Pre-Flight Checklist” that can help you achieve the results you want. Aid your Recovery, Health and manage Stress so you can feel better, move better, and perform better! The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. UpRight Movement is a Force Multiplier supporting you with its Regeneration Guidelines.
Click Here For: On-Line Daily Readiness Index
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“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth.”
Injury/Pain is not the enemy it is a signal from your body that requires responsibility.
To reduce your risk of injuries a proactive approach is fundamental, involving a practice that places an emphasis on the four UpRight Movement Principles of: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. Here’s how to protect your investment in yourself by maximizing four of the leading sources of success.
1. Restorative Sleep: Wake and sleep with nature’s rhythms of light and dark. Expose yourself to fresh air and natural sunlight daily. Avoid caffeine after 12 PM. Avoid alcohol and try to minimize consumption of grains, sugars, and artificial sweeteners close to bedtime. Start winding down 2 hours before bedtime and dim the lights in the house, (incl. TV and Computers). Make bedroom dark and cool. Rest when tired, and sleep deeply by 10 PM for 8-10 hours.
2. Restorative Nutrition: Hydrate your body with quality water- approximately .5 – 1 oz. per pound of body weight. Minimize your intake of other beverages like sodas, energy drinks, fruit juices, teas, coffees, and alcohol. Limit your intake of processed-grains, sugar, artificial sweeteners, nicotine and/or narcotics.
Nourish your body with quality, fresh, nutritious whole food that is optimal for your genetic needs and health. Eat breakfast soon after awakening. Chew your food thoroughly, enjoy and be grateful for your food, which supports your life. Eat regularly, avoid eating when overly hungry, and eat slowly until satisfied.
3. Durability: Develop Quality Symmetrical Mobility, Balanced Posture, Motor Control, Postural Control, Efficient Movement Pattern Skills, Optimal Strength to Bodyweight Ratio, Optimal Ground Reaction Forces Management: Force Absorption, Force Production, Force Impact Control, Explosive Control, and Function equal if not greater than the environmental demands.
4. Regeneration: The Regeneration piece is often missing from other programs but it’s really the key for improving overall performance. Recovery or Regeneration is more than rest days. It’s a mindset integrating strategies of breathing, sleep, nutrition/hydration, soft-tissue work, and other self-care that we choose to live every day, week, month, and year.
UpRight Movement is a Force Multiplier supporting the positive practice of Your “Essentials”. Improve your Mindset and make progress toward your goals by leveraging UpRight Movement Principles. Let us aid your Recovery, Health and Stress management so you can feel better, move better, and perform better!
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Catherine Shanahan, MD, Deep Nutrition
Due to UpRight Movement’s dedication to providing you with “best in practice” services we are now referring clients to Origins Nutrition (Nutrition Services) if we feel they could benefit from nutrition counseling in their wellness program. To help fulfill our shared vision and sense of responsibility to upgrade lives, we offer 10 – 20% savings on our services when combined.
“Look to the season when choosing your cure.“
All of the natural world lives and thrives with cyclical rhythms. As the sun shines upon one horizon, the moon beams upon another; one offers a time for more movement and the other for more rest. The seasonal rhythms of Spring and Summer have more temperate weather and longer days that support new life and increased activity, while the shorter days of Fall and cold Winter temperatures offer opportunities for restoration and regeneration.
Often the period between October and April marks the cold and flu season across the Northern hemisphere. Perhaps a few reasons that can leave us more vulnerable to illness are:
- Decreased outdoor exposure of light and air
- Increased indoor exposure to people who have the cold/flu
- Increased Holiday Stress
- Increased Sugar and Alcohol consumption
With these added holiday-season stressors, it may be even more important during this time of the year to balance your life and support your health and fitness. Consider the upcoming change of seasons as an opportunity to pay attention to how your body feels and practice balance. This might include more cheer, rest, sound nourishing food, appropriate restorative movement; and perhaps less guilt, food deprivation, and excessive workouts.
The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. You can power your recovery, health and performance with UpRight Movement’s support and its Regeneration Guidelines.
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“Food first, supplements are supplemental.”
Are your supplements safe? If you read the recent article in Consumer Reports, you might think they aren’t safe at all. There are a lot of misconceptions about what the supplement industry is doing and how it is regulated by the FDA.
*SIX REASONS YOU MAY NEED TO FILL THE GAPS
- MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
- SPECIFIC STRENGTH & POWER GOALS
- INCREASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
- DIGESTIVE ISSUES
- INCREASED STRESS
- KNOWN NUTRITION DEFICIENCY
*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
As one of the most respected supplement companies in the world, Thorne Research strives to educate consumers on the facts about the supplement industry. Learn more by watching the video links below.
Power Your Recovery, Health and Performance with THORNE RESEARCH: Sports Performance within UpRight Movement’s Recommended Products Nutrition section Page. The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. For further assistance see UpRight Movement’s Regeneration Guidelines.
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Click Here For: THORNE RESEARCH: Sports Performance
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Did you know that you can manage inflammation through nutrition? While some inflammation is necessary to fight off infection and repair broken-down muscle after a workout, chronic inflammation can cause serious health issues. Eating quality meals high in vegetables, fruits, antioxidant-rich grains, fish and healthy proteins, and nuts and seeds has been shown to help prevent long-term health issues by helping to limit inflammation.
Learning simple strategies to control inflammation in the body can be a game changer for your health, performance, and recovery. Here are five dietary contributors to inflammation to be aware of. Fill your diet with anti-inflammatory options like grass-fed meat, fish, eggs, and fruits and vegetables.
Omega-3 fatty acids are also a great source of healthy fat that have been shown to help maintain the body’s normal inflammatory response during strenuous exercise.* THORNE RESEARCH: Sports Performance | Omega-3
*SIX REASONS YOU MAY NEED TO FILL THE GAPS
- MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
- SPECIFIC STRENGTH & POWER GOALS
- INCREASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
- DIGESTIVE ISSUES
- INCREASED STRESS
- KNOWN NUTRITION DEFICIENCY
*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
UpRight Movement helps to support the positive management of Your “INFLAMMATION”, with its newest Inflammation handout. Improve your Mindset and make progress toward your goals by leveraging UpRight Movement Principles. Aid your Recovery, Health and manage Stress so you can feel better, move better, and perform better! The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. For further assistance see UpRight Movement’s Regeneration Guidelines.
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“Nutrition can make a good athlete great, or a great athlete good.”
The line of EXOS Performance Nutrition branded products has been discontinued and rebranded under one of the most respected supplement companies in the world, the Thorne Research line of products. These are the same great products as before — just with a different label.
*SIX REASONS YOU MAY NEED TO FILL THE GAPS
- MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS
- SPECIFIC STRENGTH & POWER GOALS
- INCREASED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
- DIGESTIVE ISSUES
- INCREASED STRESS
- KNOWN NUTRITION DEFICIENCY
*This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Power Your Recovery, Health and Performance with THORNE RESEARCH: Sports Performance within UpRight Movement’s Recommended Products Nutrition section Page. The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. For further assistance see UpRight Movement’s Regeneration Guidelines.
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Click Here For: THORNE RESEARCH: Sports Performance
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
UpRight Movement has compiled our top recommended educational resources, to help empower you on your journey upgrading your life with health, fitness, and performance.
Power Your Recovery, Health and Performance within UpRight Movement’s Recommended Products Fitness and Nutrition section Page. The Pillars of long lasting change are: Mindset, Recovery, Nutrition/Hydration, and Movement. For further assistance see UpRight Movement’s Regeneration Guidelines.
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You Are What You Eat
Your Are What You Eat
Presented by Paul Chek
8 Audio CDs and 1 CD-ROM with e-manual in PDF format
This informal discussion with Paul Chek highlights issues to consider when selecting the foods we consume. As Paul points out, our bodies replace millions of cells each day, as our tissues turn over continually. These new cells are made out of the building blocks that come from our food and drink. Do you want your bones, muscles, eyes and hair to be made from low quality fast food or nutritious organic produce?
Paul talks about these ideas and more in this informative and entertaining audio program. He discusses research, uncovers controversies and provides suggestions on the following areas:
- Organic vs. commercially raised foods
- Cooked food vs. raw food
- Food processing and food storage
- Food packaging
- Genetically modified foods
- Food irradiation
- Fiber, colon health and detoxification
- The pros and cons of grains
- Alcohol
- Dairy
- Animal products, eggs and seafood
- Fats and oils
- Sugar
- Salt
- Water
- Microwave ovens
The program comes complete with a manual which shows you how to highlight action items for yourself, and has a comprehensive list of references and useful resources.
Testimonials
What an accomplishment ! This audio course is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for doing such a tremendous service in putting this all together in such a magnificent, elegant CD course. It will benefit the lives of literally millions of people.
— William Wolcott, Author of The Metabolic Typing Diet
Flatten Your Abs Forever
Flatten Your Abs Forever
Presented by Paul Chek
1 DVD, 120 min (lecture)
Everyone, especially females, dreams of flat abs. But all too often we see little or no result from exercise or dieting – the dreaded pooch remains despite being able to perform hundreds of crunches! So what can be preventing you or your clients from seeing the results you expect to get? In this lecture, Paul Chek will explain the common problems and issues that must be addressed in order to reach the goal of flat abs, including ineffective exercise programming, poor nutritional habits, hormonal imbalances, gynecological and gastro-intestinal disorders and more.
How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!
How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!
By Paul Chek
This best-selling book reveals techniques and secrets previously available only to Paul Chek’s clients and students. In How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! Chek shares his approach to achieving a healthy, balanced lifestyle while dropping pounds and reshaping your body.This book will help you identify your individual needs and explain how to address issues that may be preventing you from looking and feeling your best. Paul reveals fascinating research and airs controversial topics while providing practical suggestions for achieving peak vitality. How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! contains a proven four-step program that has helped thousands of people achieve their health and fitness goals.
The Digestion Sessions
The health and function of our body begins from the inside. Perhaps for some this is the missing link, to their immune and skeletal muscular challenges.
25 Experts Team Up to Reveal How You Can Resolve Your Digestive Issues, Including Gas, Bloating, Constipation, Diarrhea, IBS and More FOR GOOD, So You Can Move On with Your Life!
You will have lifetime on-line access that is downloadable. The expert presentations are in multiple format of audio, video, and PDF transcripts, plus bonuses.
The Thyroid Sessions
The energy and hormonal balances of our body is greatly influenced from the health and function of the thyroid. Perhaps for some this is the missing link, to their energy and bodyweight challenges.
Finally Learn the Formula for Healing Your Thyroid from 24 of the World’s Most Renowned Thyroid Experts, So You Can Move on with Your Life!
You will have lifetime on-line access that is downloadable. The expert presentations are in multiple format of audio, video, and PDF transcripts, plus bonuses.
Paleo Summit
Animal protein and fats are the preferred resources that help with cell and hormonal integrity for the human body. Modern agriculture and processed foods is abstract to the long history and success of how our nomadic ancestors primarily ate. Perhaps for some this is the missing link, to their energy, bodyweight, and performance challenges.
Not all Animal Protein and Fat is equal nor should it be feared. Learn from 24 of the leading experts on the topic of Paleo eating, established authors, researchers, educators, medical, and holistic practitioners.
Receive answers to: Exactly which foods are allowed — and not allowed — on a paleo/primal diet? What are the most effective strategies for implementing this way of eating? What’s the best way to transition your family to the paleo lifestyle while keeping food fun for the kids…and the adults? How can you reset your hormonal system and put your body into fat-burning mode? Are the claims made by Paleo proponents always as scientifically sound as we think they are? What is gluten sensitivity and what are its connections to autoimmunity, bone loss, and muscle pain? What are the most effective strategies for troubleshooting the diet for those with digestive disorders? Is there any truth to the claims that the consumption of animal foods causes heart disease and other degenerative diseases? Can endurance athletes perform optimally on a paleo diet? Along with several other questions that you may have.
You will have lifetime on-line access that is downloadable. The expert presentations are in multiple format of audio, video, and PDF transcripts, plus bonuses.
Real Food Summit
The energy, structural integrity, and function of our body is greatly influenced from the health of the food we consume, which we bio-accumulate. Perhaps for some this is the missing link, to their energy, bodyweight, and performance challenges.
Food DOES NOT Have to Be as Complicated as We Make It! Now You Can Learn Exactly How and What to Eat from Some of the Very Best Farmers, Nutritionist, and Researchers on the Planet!
You will have lifetime on-line access that is downloadable. The expert presentations are in multiple format of audio, video, and PDF transcripts, plus bonuses.
Real Food Conference
The quality and rate of regeneration abilities of our body often relate to health and performance. What we eat supports the estimated 15-70 trillion cells that make up the human body. Perhaps for some this is the missing link, to their energy, bodyweight, and performance challenges.
Learn from 29 of the world’s boldest, most sought-after natural health authors, researchers, speakers and teachers present real food solutions for accelerated fat loss, reversing aging, and living disease-free…
You will have lifetime on-line access that is downloadable. The expert presentations are in multiple format of audio, video, and PDF transcripts, plus bonuses.
ATTAINING OPTIMAL HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE ONLINE!
ATTAINING OPTIMAL HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY
INSTRUCTOR: DAVID J. GETOFF, CCN, CTN, FAAIM
TWENTY-FIVE HOURS OF CLASS
UNLIMITED VIEWING! THREE MONTHS TO TAKE THE COURSE
Topics covered: Unhealthy grains; good fats/bad fats; paleo versus vegan diet; vitamins; minerals; herbs; homeopathy; cancer; heart disease; diabetes; detox; depression; antioxidants; enzymes; drinking water; fluoride; chlorine; mold; cholesterol; hormones; vaccinations; root canals; mercury fillings; electromagnetic radiation; cell phones; and much more!
Precision Nutrition Encyclopedia of Food
Precision Nutrition’s Encyclopedia of Food is a collection of nutrition information and healthy food recipes. New foods and recipes are added regularly, so make sure to sign up for updates!
Beautiful Practice
Beautiful Practice:
A Whole-Life Approach to Health, Performance
and the Human Predicament
By Frank Forencich
As we all know, today’s world presents us with an unprecedented set of perplexing challenges: habitat destruction, lifestyle disease, crushing stress, fragmented attention, anxiety and social conflict. Our bodies are suffering, our minds are confused and our spirits are in turmoil. We need knowledge and understanding, but we also need experience, participation and engagement. In other words, we need a practice. Beautiful Practice is a multi-disciplinary guide to the art of living skillfully and mindfully in the modern world. This book will lead you through a progressive series of lessons, each designed to reveal one crucial aspect of living our beautiful adventure. Use these lessons to develop a personal practice, refine an existing program or create a new practice from scratch. This book is for trainers, coaches, classroom teachers, yoga teachers, martial artists, professionals, managers and parents; the ideas in this book will enhance your efforts in any discipline. So please join in. Sweep the dojo, empty your cup, bow to the mat and let’s begin.
LEGACY
LEGACY:
What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life
By John Kerr
The All Blacks are the world’s most successful sporting outfit, undefeated in over 75% of their international matches over the last 100 years. What is the secret of their success? And what can we – as individuals, companies and teams – learn from them?
A values-based, purpose driven culture is a foundation of the All Blacks’ approach and sustained success… In fact, in answer to the question, “What is the All Blacks’ competitive advantage?” key is the ability to manage their culture and central narrative by attaching the players” personal meanings to a higher purpose. It is the identity of the of the team that matters – not so much what the All Blacks do, but who they are, what they stand for, and why they exist.”
Revealing the winning secrets of the All Blacks, LEGACY tackles a number of fundamental issues facing leaders in all fields: How do you create a high performance culture? How do you maintain world-class standards, day after day, week after week, year after year? How do you handle pressure? What is the secret of sustained success? How do you deal with the pressure? And what do you leave behind you after you’re gone? What’s your legacy?
The 15 Lessons in LEGACY are:
- Sweep the Sheds: Never be too big to do the small things that need to be done
- Go for the Gap: When you’re on top of your game, change your game
- Play with Purpose: Ask “Why?”
- Pass the Ball: Leaders create leaders
- Create a Learning Environment: Leaders are teachers
- No Dickheads: Follow the spearhead
- Embrace Expectations: Aim for the highest cloud
- Train to Win: Practice under pressure
- Keep a Blue Head: Control your attention
- Know Thyself: Keep it real
- Sacrifice: Find something you would die for and give your life to it
- Invent a Language: Sing your world into existence
- Ritualize to Actualize: Create a culture
- Be a Good Ancestor: Plant trees you’ll never see
- Write Your Legacy: This is your time
In LEGACY, best-selling author James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world’s most successful sporting team, the legendary All Blacks of New Zealand, to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and the business of life.
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