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Are You Ready for Some Handball?

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

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

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

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

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...

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