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Meeting this moment is daunting. Our world seems undone and our well-being is more at risk today than anytime during my 30 years in the health and fitness industry. That’s why Vertical Method is expanding its practice an...

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As SF recalibrates post-Covid I’ve lived and worked in Lamorinda, a community 17 miles east, and a world away. I walk every day to the grocery store, to workout at Orange Theory and to my office. Life is safer and easier...

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Hello 2025! It’s a late start to the year at Vertical Method. Since the first week of January I’ve focused on a single client and anterior cable tears in his shoulder. Last year he tried an arthroscopic rotator cuff repa...

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The fitness industry will bounce back this year. For the first time since 2020’s Covid-19 shutdown, surviving brick-and-mortar exercise companies are projected to see 2019 earnings. Small fitness studios like Vertical Me...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/group-exercise-is-back","title":"Group Exercise is Back!","summary":"The fitness industry will bounce back this year. For the first time since 2020’s Covid-19 shutdown, surviving brick-and-mortar exercise companies are projected to see 2019 earnings. Small fitness studios like Vertical Me...","date_modified":"2024-02-09T02:40:45Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/hello-2023","html_content":"

Hello 2023! Slowly and surely the fitness industry finds its legs in the post-pandemic era. For small studio businesses like Vertical Method our dependency on San Francisco’s prosperity and settlement of the tech industr...

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Hello 2022! WFH continues. Office gyms and workplace wellness programs are gone. Home fitness equipment is a daily requirement. Before you sacrifice your living room to an exercise bike or treadmill, clear some wall spac...

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Due to high demand for Vertical Method Posture Fitness at home we've shifted our focus from in-studio and virtual on-demand group workouts to private one-on-one training. In time we'll all learn to safely manage infectio...

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I’ve prepared a 10 minute Wellness Break for the Hyperledger Global Forum attendees. Sitting and standing with aligned posture reduces the health risks associated with tech jobs by increasing circulation and mobility to ...

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As the weather shifts we naturally head into hibernation mode, eat less food, sleep more hours and engage in more self-care style fitness. Finally. That’s going to help a lot of people who WFH and feel like their body’s ...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/dont-cry-for-gyms","title":"Gym reboot?","summary":"As the weather shifts we naturally head into hibernation mode, eat less food, sleep more hours and engage in more self-care style fitness. Finally. That’s going to help a lot of people who WFH and feel like their body’s ...","date_modified":"2021-01-20T19:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/good-advice-i-did-not-take","html_content":"

Sara Blakely inspires thousands of women and I am one. In her MasterClass on self-made entrepreneurship there were moments where I felt she spoke directly to me. “Diversify” she said while looking into the camera as if s...

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I experienced a Groupon flashback this summer as my IM blew up with IGTV users asking for posture hacks to replace the work required in my 5 part UnDesk Me! series. Each video is short, 10-20 minutes, which is a hack in ...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/content-v-knowledge","title":"Medium is the message.","summary":"I experienced a Groupon flashback this summer as my IM blew up with IGTV users asking for posture hacks to replace the work required in my 5 part UnDesk Me! series. Each video is short, 10-20 minutes, which is a hack in ...","date_modified":"2020-09-17T06:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/post-covid-evolution-of-work-wellness","html_content":"

I’ve been listening to the complaints of tech workers since 2014 and pre-Covid it was clear that nothing was going to change for them anytime soon. In fact, pre-Covid, two recent developments were poised to setback the w...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/post-covid-evolution-of-work-wellness","title":"Workplace Wellness & Covid","summary":"I’ve been listening to the complaints of tech workers since 2014 and pre-Covid it was clear that nothing was going to change for them anytime soon. In fact, pre-Covid, two recent developments were poised to setback the w...","date_modified":"2020-07-29T21:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/undesk-me","html_content":"

Our collective pulse is racing and I sense leniency toward low production value, so I confiscate my husband’s iPhone and I create UnDesk Me! in May for National Posture Month.

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We are all familiar with our primary 5 senses: touch, taste, hear, see and smell. You might not be as familiar with your 6th sense, proprioception, sensory information coming to you from your muscles. Proprioception allo...

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During shelter-in-place millions of people are jumping around their apartments in the name of exercise, checking fitness trackers for counts and data, in hopes that something is better than nothing when it comes to activ...

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This is Emma. Her image hit social media around Halloween 2019 and it frightened us. Emma is an office worker in about 20 years time according to a UK report titled The Work Colleague of The Future. \"Unless we make radic...

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Your posture effects how others see you, as well as your moods and habits. Search ‘posture correction’ on Instagram and videos appear of personal trainers demonstrating back isolation exercises or shoulder stretches with...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/this-is-your-brain-on-posture","title":"This is your brain on posture. ","summary":"Your posture effects how others see you, as well as your moods and habits. Search ‘posture correction’ on Instagram and videos appear of personal trainers demonstrating back isolation exercises or shoulder stretches with...","date_modified":"2020-02-05T23:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/my-story","html_content":"

I began my second year of college at a school in London and that’s where it begins. I was 18-years-old. How does London relate to Vertical Method? London is where I discovered ballroom dancing. Eventually I'd compete pro...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/my-story","title":"My vertical story.","summary":"I began my second year of college at a school in London and that’s where it begins. I was 18-years-old. How does London relate to Vertical Method? London is where I discovered ballroom dancing. Eventually I'd compete pro...","date_modified":"2019-12-17T20:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/vertical-meanderings","html_content":"

I picked up the official ribbon copy of my U.S. patent yesterday. September mornings are warm in SF so crossing the Bay Bridge gives me a fog-free view of Coit Tower, a stone structure dwarfed by an army of mirrored skys...

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I coined the phrase Tech Posture Atrophy (TPA) to highlight my findings from 5+ years working directly with SF’s young tech community. TPA is muscular atrophy associated with postural dysfunction prominent in otherwise f...

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Hovering over a laptop requires cross training to maintain skeletal structure. No posture strap, brace, app or vibrating gizmo will stop muscular atrophy from tech posture. Posture fitness is the fast effective answer. A...

","url":"https://vertical-method.com/f/our-mission","title":"Posture Fitness in Workplace Wellness","summary":"Hovering over a laptop requires cross training to maintain skeletal structure. No posture strap, brace, app or vibrating gizmo will stop muscular atrophy from tech posture. Posture fitness is the fast effective answer. A...","date_modified":"2019-03-15T17:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://vertical-method.com/f/whats-your-endgame","html_content":"

First appeared in Classplass After Class November 2016

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First appeared in Classpass After Class blog October 2016

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