Get adjusted before or after a workout?
Should you get adjusted before or after a workout? The most truthful answer ever recorded. The answer to this and many other questions may be found on Dr. Lou’s Youtube channel. You see, understanding your purpose of the adjustment dictates when to get it. Dr. Lou Jacobs has worked with hundreds of exceptional athletes and has experience with the benefits of timing adjustments appropriately....
read moreDr. Lou Jacobs, Maine’s Rock Doc Chiropractor | (207) 774-6251
Finely Tuned Specialty. Rock & Roll Chiropractor in Portland, Maine For over 15 years I’ve worked with musicians as a chiropractic graduate student and as a licensed chiropractor in Portland, Maine and Bucharest, Romania. What started out as a specialty for local musicians turned into a different game about seven years ago. Eight or nine years ago I was hired to work a large show by a company that I ended up being less than happy with. After the show I spent a great deal of time beginning to create relationships and connections in the industry that would lead me to the musicians. My Rock Doc specialty was born. I began getting gigs with some of music’s biggest names and they just kept coming. Repeat customers, offers to go on the road, direct cell phone numbers and other signs that I’d arrived. While I am happier at home with my family than on a 300 square foot tour bus, the opportunities I have had reminded me of the value of family as well as the obvious thrill of being part of the rock & roll lifestyle on a top shelf level. I often wonder how...
read more65+ with a Cane and a Wheelchair. Not Part Of Your Retirement Plan?
Wheel Chair & Cane Retirement Plan – No Fun Predicting the future is difficult. Things happen. What are you doing to prevent the need for a wheel chair or cane during retirement? Don’t be so negative, you say? Listen, it happens more often than you are probably aware. Instability while walking, slip and fall, wake up in the hospital with a broken hip and a wheelchair. Risk of accidents can be reduced with proper action steps. 30.6 million Number of people 15 and older who had difficulty walking or climbing stairs. Source: Americans with Disabilities: 2010 www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf 3.6 million Number of people 15 and older who used a wheelchair to assist with mobility. This compares with 11.6 million people who used a cane, crutches or walker. Source: Americans with Disabilities: 2010 www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf Chiropractic care improves nerve function, brain control over your body and better stability and agility as you age. You may have a financial retirement plan but do you have a health protection plan for your retirement years? What are you doing to keep your body in tip top shape? ...
read more9 Great Ways To Work Off Thanksgiving Dinner.
Heavy meal? Work it off in Portland, Maine with these 9 easy methods. 1. Give thanks for your partner with Black Friday, morning love making. 2. Walk around your local shopping district, like The Old Port in Portland, Maine, for an hour. 3. Work off Thanksgiving dinner by Videotaping yourself running up and down the hill of the eastern prom park. 4. Take your kids to Mackworth Island, visit the fairy houses and keep on walking! 5. Walk into the woods, cut down a christmas tree. Drag it home and put it in it’s stand. 6. Chase your kids around the back cove. 7. Take your family on a walk in the nearest park and take family pictures. 8. Go to the gym and lose 5 pounds before Christmas! 9. Be a 5 day vegetarian. No meat until Wednesday! ...
read moreWhy Body Composition Analysis for 2017? It Fosters Fitness Success.
Body Composition Analysis Fosters Fitness Success! Why would you want to find out what you are made of? With over 10 years of weight loss coaching and mental conditioning for success, I can tell you that details matter. The more details you know about your body composition, the more focused your efforts can be and the less likely you’ll get frustrated waiting for the number on the scale to change. What if you don’t use a scale? Doesn’t matter. Your body composition impacts your metabolism. Your metabolism, obviously, impacts weight loss and strategies for body conditioning optimization. Watch this video for a quick explanation of how it works, why it’s great and how it’s going to help you succeed! The scale only gives you weight. It doesn’t tell you how much water, muscle and fat you are made of. When you have your BMI calculated, it’s based on weight and height. If you are 5% body fat before a bodybuilding competition but your weight and height are high and low, your BMI will be too high. This number doesn’t tell you much. Body composition testing using an RJL Systems analyzer give us much more information. Water...
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