The Fitness Adviser

Get the mp3 audio version here – Dr. Hauser Interview Part I

Note: You can also check out Part II and Part III.

Dr. Ross Hauser is one of the medical world’s pioneers when it comes to revolutionary treatment for curing chronic pain and soft tissue injuries. He is most well known for his expertise in prolotherapy, having been trained by Dr. Gustav Hemwall, the grandfather of prolotherapy. He is the medical director and co-founder of the Natural Medicine Clinic, Caring Medical and Rehabilitation Services in Oak Park, Illinois, which can also be found at http://www.caringmedical.com.

[Dr. Hauser is a fitness enthusiast. Here he is competing in an Ironman.]

He has also written multiple books, including the national best seller “Prolo Your Pain Away! Curing Chronic Pain with Prolotherapy” and more recently “Prolotherapy: An Alternative to Knee Surgery”, I managed to land an interview with Dr. Hauser, and ask him about soft tissue injuries, prolotherapy and platelet rich plasma therapy or prp. It’s an in-depth three part interview, and this is part one. Here’s what Dr. Hauser had to say:

We live in the information age. There’s so much knowledge being fed to us every second with so little time to actually digest it, that we end up more confused than when we started. This is also what’s happening with the fitness advice of today. There’s so much information on new “special techniques to get you strong”, that we forget about the simple, core exercises that have been proven to work for decades. In that spirit, I’ve listed the three core exercises for building muscle.

[Unlike other places, you'll never hear me lecture about the biology of muscle growth in prehistoric animals. Here at The Fitness Adviser, you'll get practical, easy to understand advice on how to meet your fitness goals.]

It’s Time To Get Old School

If you haven’t read about Jason Oglesbee yet, chances are that you will. He is a construction worker who dangled from a crane to save the life of a woman drowning in the water at the base of a dam. Jason is not only a hero, but clearly someone who has been keeping in shape. When the time came to perform an act of heroism, not only was he mentally and spiritually willing to go for it, but he was physically able.

We Train For Life, Not For Vanity

There’s nothing wrong with being a little vain, especially if it pushes you to get strong and healthy, or if it helps you in a relationship. But taking vanity to the point of the extreme is wrong, and negates everything we work for when we try to get into shape. One of the reasons I look down upon bodybuilding is because it takes vanity to such an extreme that it completely forgoes functional fitness. We need to train for life, not live to train.