Proactive Posture & Fitness

12/29/2022

I’ve been doing Vinny’s program for a year now and have been out of my chronic foot pain since week 6! 🙌🏼

Ready to Buy How a Disabled Athlete Found the “Hidden Sources” of Chronic Pain… and Created a Revolutionary System to Solve Them For Good When I watched my son crawl for the first time, my heart sank to the floor. It should have been one of the happiest moments of my life. Instead, it felt lik...

05/25/2022

04/26/2022

I’m not sure in his young age what went through his mind each time the nurses and I had to hold him down against his will; what it felt like to wake up from the daze of anesthesia to tubes, wires, stitches, and worried hearts surrounding him.

My 20’s, which I thought would be this adventurous state of my life, were quite the opposite.

I broke my back in my early 20’s. The x-ray on the left was taken two years after my accident. The break sucked, but healing sucked even more. My spine shifted 21 degrees to the side from the impact and there it stayed for years.

The photo in the upper right of my son and I was taken somewhere in the middle of a multi-year long search for answers to help him with a still unknown painful health issue.

Every day was a juggling act trying not to drop the balls life was throwing at me. Trying to work through disabling back pain, coming home to support him while trying to keep my heart open and available enough to be there for my wife…

…my 20’s were trying times.
My body hurt.
My heart hurt.
Life ached.

That physical and emotional pain felt deafening. But, through that noise hummed the softness of an unspoken yet loudly heard promise…

A promise to hold each other as a reminder that we weren’t alone when things get tough: a promise to never give up.

My son and I have held each other in different ways at different times.
Sometimes it’s a look.
Other times it’s a hug that creates a bubble around us as if nothing else exists.

People ask me for advice on how to not lose hope… I wish I had a life hack, but I don’t. It was him. It was my son that got me through it. Seeing how much pain he was going through, who was I to give up?

His little smile when all hell was breaking loose, that’s what got me through. If he could rise above, so could I.

The bottom right photo was taken moments after pushing my son across the finish line of a half marathon. That hug from him was an echo of the promise we made to never give up.

The work that I do, the movements I teach, the online program I’ve built to help others - it's everything I relied on to navigate towards a better life.

I owe my life to my work because it’s given me a life worth living.

03/30/2022

03/15/2022

Love Vinny and the work he does!

I’ve hidden for years in plain sight.

I think that’s what pain does, it can make us retreat into ourselves and push the rest of the world out.

After my breaking my back, I became a recluse. Voicemails piled up, all texts were left on ‘read’, and I stopped returning phone calls. I think that’s just how I cope with things; being alone in silence. The day I broke my back, I didn’t immediately go to the hospital, I went home to be alone and process what just happened.

My only anchor to the real world was my wife, son, and the people I was committed to helping.

Outside of that, I lived small.

As I learned how to care for my body, I started to heal, move, and feel better; my coping mechanism of being quiet and alone didn’t change.

It feels completely outside my nature to be in front of a camera. It’s hard to share myself given how long I’ve spent retreating from life.

But it’s time to make some changes. My soul needs it.

Quick backstory, I am a former 8x All-American swimmer with 30+ state records (some of which are still standing twenty years later). I went from being an elite endurance athlete to barely being able to tie my shoes for years after I broke my back surfing.

It took me a decade of searching for answers. I learned mostly by failing. I explored so many therapy modalities and collected certifications from a wide range of institutions. As I learned how to recover, my capacity for living life started to change. The better I moved, the better my life became. I started to enjoy things I once avoided.

Despite the progress of going from disability to ability, I avoided sports, training, and anything that had to do with intensity. I felt like my athletic days were behind me, my main goal was to survive as comfortably as possible.

But, to be honest, surviving quietly isn’t enough for me.

Today, I have my eyes set on completing my first 50-mile Ultramarathon race. There isn’t a day or a mile I run that goes by where I don’t think about how far I’ve come. I spent years lying on the ground and couch afraid of movement; afraid life would break me again.

It’s time to stop hiding. Living small was just a coping mechanism, it’s time to shine again.

03/04/2022

Chiropractors, massage therapists, physical therapists, acupuncturists, personal trainers, your primary doctor, maybe even an orthopedist.

12/01/2021

From personal experience this is a great posture exercise! And it helps so much more than just the hips. Like for me it helps my weak feet and arches.

11/16/2021

Great functional test to see how your hips and lower spine are moving. Also a wonderful exercise that I currently do in my posture exercise routine that help correct my tight hips and flat arches.