Entries by Glenn Hyman

Why you should be doing deadlifts (start today, we’ll show you how).

Many of you have been asking about Meredith’s knee after reading about her recent surgery in the last DCC newsletter. We certainly appreciate all of the interest you’ve shown. Meredith is on the road to recovery. She’s doing all of her normal everyday activities, and her rehab continues. While a big part of her recovery […]

4 Steps to improving hamstring strength and flexibility (beyond mere stretches).

Here is a basic progression we’ve developed to correct low scores on the Active Straight Leg Raise. The general idea is to progress from isolation exercises to integration exercises to functional exercises. Of course, the first step to improving poor performance on the Active Straight Leg Raise is releasing any scar tissue in the hamstrings […]

Triathlon season, 2011- Denver Chiropractic Center Triathlon Team schedule

Well, It’s time to get back to training and get back to blogging about training. The Denver Chiropractic Center Triathlon Team’s race schedule for 2011 looks like this: June 11: Winter Park MTB Race- Hill Climb (www.epicsingletrack.com) June 25: Tough Mudder Beaver Creek (an obstacle course race on foot www.toughmudder.com) July 9: Winter Park MTB Race- […]

Photos from Hawaii 2010 (including treating Ironman athletes)

 On October 2, 2010, my family and I boarded a plane to Kona. I was a part of the 2010 ART treatment team at the Ford Ironman World Championships. From hip pain, to knee pain, shoulder problems to neck pain, headaches to plantar fasciitis, we saw it all. Oh yeah, we also had a hell […]

Update on my triathlon training

I’ve been taking some time away from swimming and biking, but still doing some running. Mostly, I’ve been hitting the kettlbell pretty hard. I bought a DVD about improving your VO2 max with the kettlebell snatch & this weekend I finally watched. Very interesting. In a nutshell: You set a 2-second cadence with the kettlebell […]

The very popular barefoot running article is now online

Those of you (over 1000!) who get our paper newsletter already have the barefoot running article from the June / July 2010 newsletter. We sort of goofed and never managed to put it online. Well, here it is: http://www.denverback.com/pdf/2010_July.pdf For those of you who like to follow my training, I did a workout I picked […]