Congratulations to Lewisville High School (LHS) senior Christian Nagel, who last week received Lewisville Noon Rotary's Student of the Month award for February 2023.

 

Nagel is the student body historian at the Harmon campus and also keeps up all the social media posts for the high school. He is captain of the track team, a member of the National Honor Society and Interact clubs, and is in the top 10 percent of his class, among many other achievements. With Nagel from left to right are LHS Director of Student Activities Allison Stamey, his mother, Trisha Nagel, and LNR Youth Committee chair Sue Bowman. Lewisville Noon Rotary is proud to honor this wonderful young man, and we wish him much success in his future studies.

 

Lewisville Noon Rotary president Dennis Song last week inducted Clayton Hurlbut and Monty Felts as new Rotarians and the newest members of our club.

 

A native of Flower Mound and UNT alumnus, Hurlbut originally studied aviation logistics. But he changed career paths during the Covid lockdown and now works alongside both his parents as a financial advisor with a local branch of Edward Jones.

 

Felts likewise lives in Flower Mound and works as a mortgage broker. (His office is in the same retail center as Bistecca.) Although he has traveled everywhere from Nigeria to Korea and moved 19 times during 18 years of marriage, Felts and his wife now are putting down long term roots in Highland Village to raise their three children.

 

Those who braved last week’s wet and blustery weather were privy to valuable insights on body science and how to be fit for life from guest presenter and personal trainer Jacob Santana.

 

A former body builder, Santana has spent nearly 25 years studying physiognomy, biomechanics, and injury prevention. He now works at the Carrollton location of OsteoStrong, a wellness center that focuses on the importance of maintaining bone health to optimize overall wellness.

 

“A lot of times, we just live with aches and pains” from things like sciatica or a torn rotator cuff and don’t know what to do, Santana said. To address these issues, Santana develops personalized one-on-one sessions work to trigger strengthening throughout the musculoskeletal system. As an example, he has been working with past LNR President Dirk Dahlke, who for years has had stiffness in his shoulder and legs. Santana watched how Dahlke moved and developed a plan involving a series of simple exercises to incorporate different movements and reprogram the body by strengthening and aligning various muscles and bones. Dahlke already is seeing dramatic results after only two months and now is pain free.

 

This holistic approach is the core of what Santana does as a Corrective Exercise Specialist. The body has more than 600 muscles, he explained, so even standard workout routines are limiting by their repetitive nature. Similarly, to mitigate pain from sciatica, you need to address not only compressed nerves and stretch the gluteal muscles and hamstrings, but also train calf and foot muscles, as well.

 

“You have to think of your body as a whole,” Santana said, which includes strength, mobility or range of motion, posture, and nutrition, among other factors. For more information, visit the website for the OsteoStrong Carrollton location.