He contributes a monthly editorial in Golf Today and an instructor for the Titleist Performance Institute.

Besides golf, Dr. Sese is a 6th Dan Master Instructor in Taekwondo, a former Canadian National Champion and a U.S. Open medalist. He is the Medical Director and Team Doctor for the World Taekwondo Federation of BC, Canada. He is also co-founder of the Martial Arts Performance Coach, an elite performance certification program for world’s top martial arts coaches and athletes.

• Graduated from Western State’s College of Chiropractic in 2007.
• Is a Master Instructor and former national champion in Taekwondo.
• He has traveled and taught with the Titleist Performance Institute and is now touring with PGA professionals including Graham McDowell, Jerry Kelly, Adam Hadwin, Jon Rahm, and many others.
• Harry’s Approach: The Goal is to play golf for as long as you want/can. Always keep an eye on your body and fitness to stay in peak condition for as long as possible.

Sue’s journey to help others began in the world of fitness. She became a group exercise instructor in 1988. In 1999, she starred in the Crunch video Boot Camp Training, which has sold more than half a million copies worldwide and remains one of the bestselling fitness videos today. She continues to teach in some of NYC’s top fitness facilities today.

Sue’s interest in manual therapy began with her quest to find answers to her own debilitating pain, which served as the foundation for the MELT Method®. After receiving her Masters in Exercise Science from New York University, Sue went on to complete thousands of hours of research, as well as certifications in manual therapies such as neuromuscular, craniosacral, and lymph drainage. Since 1998, Sue has had a private manual therapy practice, working with clients who suffer from a wide range of injuries, disorders, diseases, and dysfunctions as well as their associated chronic pain symptoms, which are most often overmedicated and infrequently remedied.

In 2001, Sue was inspired to create “homework” for her clients, which led to the development of the MELT Method® – the first-ever form of Hands-off BodyworkTM. This groundbreaking program provides a self-care option that reduces and eliminates the cause of pain, rather than offering temporary relief, such as medication and surgery, to support health, fitness, and quality of life of any person, at any age or activity level.

Now with the bestselling book The MELT Method® and the products Sue personally designed – including the MELT Soft Body Roller and MELT Hand & Foot Treatment kit – anyone, anywhere, can take steps to restore whole-body efficiency and lead a healthier, more active life.

Sue has personally trained more than 1,300 professionals from 13 different countries – some of whom are even working with Olympic and professional athletes. Sue is a leading presenter for national organizations such as IDEA, ECA, and PMA, and an accredited continuing education provider for ACE, AFAA, NASM, PMA, and NCBTMB.

Sue has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, and Live! with Regis and Kelly, and the MELT Method® has been featured in magazines such as SELF, More, and Prevention. To date The MELT Method® has been translated into eight languages. Sue Hitzmann lives in New York City.

Now retired, he is known for his industry-changing innovations and education in the strength and clinical worlds. He’s a leading speaker on topics related to strength and human movement, and performs insane feats of strength to help charities and organizations whose work he believes in.  In addition to Kabuki Strength Chris has also co-founded BuildFast Formula for supplementation and nutrition and Bearfoot Athletics to optimize the human to ground interface. Chris is also a best selling author detailing his incredible upbringing as well as his approach to mindset, philosophy, and tools he uses for success in The Eagle and The Dragon.

In addition to his overall record of association with winning franchises, his career has been highlighted by six division, two NFC championship titles, and 3 Super Bowl victories with the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs.

Dr. Crooks has had the distinct honor of training with leading experts in pain medicine at two of the nation’s top hospitals, with extensive training in acute and chronic pain management. He completed a residency in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and while there, he had the honor of being selected Chief Resident of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine for 2008-2009.

Delivering the highest quality patient care has been the primary focus of Dr. Crooks throughout his career in medicine. He believes that the best attribute a physician can have is the ability to listen to their patient and to understand the importance of the doctor-patient relationship. This relationship is essential in managing chronic pain, restoring function, and getting back to life.

Dr. Crooks has been practicing interventional pain medicine in Arizona since 2010 and has been voted a “Top Doc” in Pain Management by Phoenix physicians in Phoenix Magazine. His clinical interests include spinal injections, radiofrequency ablation, and neuromodulation by spinal cord stimulator. He is well versed in interventional and multimodal pain management and is passionate about improving the lives of his patients by limiting the impact of chronic pain.

I’ll admit, I have a sweet tooth. Once I get a taste of something sweet, it’s like a Lay’s Potato Chip, you can bet, I can’t eat just one. Excess sugar can be destructive to our health, filled with empty calories that expand our waistline. Enter, a possible solution…sugar “substitutes”. These are ingredients or extracts that provide the sweetness, without the calories. They can be found in all sorts of foods, drinks, and desserts! 

Monk Fruit is the new “sugar substitute du jour”…let’s take a taste! 

What is Monk Fruit?

You’ll also see it listed as Lo Han Guo on food labels, Monk Fruit is a fruit native to China. It’s been used for centuries not just as a sweetner, but medicinally in Chinese Traditional Medicine. To produce the sweetner, they crush the fruit and then extract out the sweet compounds and dry them into a powder. 

How sweet is it?

About 100-250 times sweeter than table sugar. It contains zero calories, no matter how much you use, however it’s so powerful you only need to use a tiny amount. In fact, the amount is so small, it’s hard to use, therefore it’s often combined with other sweetners, like Erythritol, to add bulk and weight. 

How does it have ZERO calories?

What makes Monk Fruit sweet are specific compounds called Mogrosides, the main one being Mogroside V. These compounds are not absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract, therefore they are not converted into units of energy, or calories. Monk Fruit extracts are only made from Mogrosides and what makes them different is the concentration of Mogroside V, the higher the amount the sweeter the extract will be. 

Is Monk Fruit Extract safe?

YES, the FDA has reviewed Monk Fruit and has designated it as GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe). Research has shown that Monk Fruit is removed by the digestive system and 80-90% is excreted in the urine within 2hrs. 

Can Monk Fruit help me to lose weight? 

There isn’t anything in Monk Fruit that causes weight loss, however, using it as a substitute for high calorie sugar or sweetners, can help you to lose weight by managing your calories. Calorie management has shown to be the most powerful took for weight loss, Monk Fruit is a great solution for sugar. 

Who would benefit from Monk Fruit?

Anyone who has an issue with managing their calorie due to their love of sugar (me!), Diabetics, Children, and also seems to be safe for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women. Sweetners that are naturally extracted from plants are great options for all these groups. 

How does it compare to other sweetners? 

If you currently use NutraSweet or Equal (Aspartame) or Sweet N Low (Saccharin), then Monk Fruit will be an equal replacement, but if you like Stevia or Sucralose, you’ll need to use more of Monk Fruit to provide the same level of sweetness. Monk Fruit is great for those who want a natural sweetner choice. 

How should I buy Monk Fruit? 

Because Monk Fruit is very sweet, you only need a small amount. Consequently, when you buy it as an extract (by itself to mix with your food/beverage), products will combine it with other low-calorie sweetners to add bulk.  Make sure you check the ingredients to see what else is in the product and that Monk Fruit is listed as the first one. 

What is this soreness? 

It’s referred to as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, DOMS, and it can start right after your workout, but usually peaks around 2-3 days after. The mechanism of why it happens is not well understood, you hear about lactic acid build up, but that’s a theory. What we do know is that it’s initiated because of tiny tears in the muscle and connective tissue caused by stress when you overload them. 

Does it happen with all types of workouts?

You will get these tears with any type of strenuous use of your muscles, but they will be greater when you’re performing new/unfamiliar movements and/or when your muscles are eccentrically loaded. Eccentric means the muscle is lengthening at the same time it’s contracting. I like to think of it as when you’re “braking” a force; the way down on a bench press or running downhill. Every complete movement has an eccentric component. 

Is being sore a good thing?

Not exactly. Soreness can be an indicator of progress, pushing yourself to new limits. However, it’s not a sole indicator of growth and getting stronger. You can build muscle without always being sore, and actually, it’s not good to be sore all the time because it keeps you from working out and putting more load on in your next workout. 

Can I still build muscle without being sore?

Absolutely, you can build muscle without resulting in soreness because muscle growth can occur with greater mechanical tension (the stress you place on a muscle) and/or metabolic stress (how tired you make the muscle). Muscle damage, which creates soreness, is just one of the 3 ways, not the only way. 

Should I work out if I’m sore?

The quickest way to recovery, is to keep moving. You wouldn’t do the same exercises and you decrease the intensity (significantly), but you’d keep the blood flowing through the muscle. This will bring healing/recovery nutrients to the area and promoting detoxification. 

If I’m sore all the time, what should I do?

Think about rest, nutrition, hydration. In that order. If the same muscle is sore for 4-5 days after your workout, you need to take some time off and decrease the intensity.  You’re doing too much, the tissue can’t handle the amount of stress you’re placing on it all at once. You’ve got to intense, too soon. Nutrition is also key, carbohydrates are your best friend here, they replace the glycogen stores in muscle which allows them to heal and recovery. Up your calories too, you need the energy to fuel healing. Drink more water, water helps to not only hydrate and build the muscle but it’s a detoxifier, “flushing” the muscle of the toxins created from the stress and recovery. 

Anything to be careful of?

Being sore and being in pain are two different things. Your muscles may be sore, but you can still move around. There is no sharp, stinging, significantly weakening experiences with soreness, if you feel that, you might have hurt yourself.  Also, soreness will fade as the days go by. If you feel pain, STOP. 

How do you deal with soreness?

Movement is key. I’ll choose a very low weight, 20lbs on the leg extension (when I usually do 170lbs), and perform 40-50 reps, get the blood really pumping in the sore area. I’ll also make sure I drink a protein shake before bed, 2:1 ratio of Protein:Carbs, feed my muscle during its optimal recovery time. Lastly, I’ll drink water with electrolytes, especially magnesium, to pull hydration into my muscle.