Farewell to the Exercise Explorer
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - photo: Ironwood Family Practice staff who participated in the September Movement Challenge. From left to right: Debbie Cohen, Alanna Dowies, Kirsten Anderson, Doreen Krause, Joelene Creech, Amber Tatman, Dr. Geoff Emry,...
Square Dancing Through the Ages
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - During winter months as a kid, I remember going to square dances with my family at the Mica Flats Grange. I loved getting to stay up late, dancing with family and friends, and the best part was taking a break for...
Are You Ready for Some Handball?
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - I’ve been a huge fan of the Denver Broncos since 1999. It was a fairly easy decision at the time - I’d just moved to Colorado for my specialty training in Family Medicine, the Broncos had just won back-to-back Super...
Beyond the Stereotypes of Personal Training
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - From time to time it’s good to stop and examine one’s biases. As for me, when it comes to personal training, I pictured working out one-on-one with a super-fit dude yelling at me to get every last ounce of effort from...
Pilates is not Punishment
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - Surely I am not the only person who's noticed the eerie similarities between Pilates and the Spanish Inquisition. Not only is the main apparatus used in pilates a wooden frame with a set of springs inside that...
Mainlining Pickleball
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - It’s been said there are two kinds of people - those who love pickleball and those who haven’t tried it yet. Even skeptics, like my friend Dan Meltzer, who argues that pickleball is “just a game” as opposed to a “sport" like...
Taking Tennis’s Temperature with Trey
Exercise Explorer MD, Dr. Geoff Emry - In my youth, I spent many hot summer days on area tennis courts working on my game. So it was a bit of nostalgia when I met up with Trey Weatherly to play tennis at McEuen Park on a recent Sunday morning that was on its...