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This month’s Inner Circle webinar is on 5 Ways to Incorporate Movement into Your Programs. In this presentation, I talk about the need to change our focus away from “corrective exercise” and towards “enhancing movement.” Really just a shift in focus, not technique, but an important concept to consider.
By focusing on optimizing movement, we take away the need to “fix” someone with corrective exercises.
Contradictory to common belief that sport specialization will achieve great success, long term athletic development (LTAD) is a progressive and injury preventative approach to youth fitness and sport performance that we cannot afford to lose site of. Here are 4 keys to implementing LTAD into your programs.
The general public and athletes everywhere are now using supplements to aid in their diet and increase performance. What are we putting into our bodies?
This month’s Inner Circle webinar is on How to Coach and Perform Shoulder Program Exercises. While this seems like a simple topic, the concepts discussed here are key to enhancing shoulder and scapula function. There are many little tweaks you can perform for shoulder exercises to make them more effective. If you perform rotator cuff or scapula exercises poorly, you can be facilitating compensatory patterns.
Hip weakness is a common area of focus in both the rehabilitation and fitness fields. Our excessive sitting postures and majority of activities during the day occur in the sagittal plane of motion, and hip weakness in the frontal and transverse planes is common.
There are many exercises designed to address glute medius and glute maximus strength in the transverse plane. But a simple tweak to your posture during one of the most common exercises can have a big impact on your glute activity and balance between your glutes and TFL.
Low back pain continues to be one of the most common health complaints that limit people, especially as we age. Rehabilitation of low back pain has transition from simply focusing on reducing the local pain to emphasizing a biomechanical approach of how other areas of the body, such as the hips, impact low back pain. A recent study revealed that people with low back pain do not have proper hip extension mobility. Luckily, there is a simple and easy mobility drill you can perform – the True Hip Flexor Stretch.
It’s pretty obvious that the shoulder is linked to the scapula, which is linked to the trunk. So why do we so often perform isolated arm movement exercises without incorporating the trunk? In this article, I review a recent research report that examined the impact of incorporating trunk rotation with arm exercises. The results were pretty interesting.
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