Injury Rehab & Movement Specialists
I recently had a question over email about the best functional exercises for runners to perform. It’s a great question but before I go into some exercise examples let’s look at the skills that are advantageous for a runner. 3 Components Of Good Running Mechanics 1. Minimum Ground Contact Time This may seem obvious but the ability to get …
If you’ve been in or around the fitness industry a while you’ve probably had exposure to a wide array of training styles, systems and programs. You’ve also probably developed a bias towards a particular type of training or system – it may have got results for your clients or it maybe the way you like …
ROM or Range Of Motion often seems to be misunderstood in the fitness industry. A common belief is that our muscles can sometimes be too short or tight and restrict our range of motion when we move, and techniques like short term static stretching, foam rolling and trigger pointing are then used to ‘release’ muscles …
I had a great question from a subscriber yesterday about how to improve thoracic mobility… “How do you increase thoracic spine mobility for back bends and contortion. Especially when your lower back and shoulders want to do all the bending?” Before talking about how to target the thoracic spine with mobility exercises it’s important to …
Did you know that it’s possible to increase ROM in minutes, just by moving? The common approach to increasing mobility or ROM before training is often to static stretch or use a foam roller. Unfortunately ROM is largely misunderstood, especially in the fitness industry but I’ll leave this statement for another blog post! For now, just understand that …
Glute training is an increasingly popular addition to strength training programs and ‘glute activation’ is often talked about in training. The most common schools of thought on muscle activation are to either “squeeze” something when you perform a movement or perform another exercise before the main movement. The problem with these methods is that they don’t guarantee you’ll …
Muscle activation is often talked about in fitness but getting different muscles to activate in a movement can be tricky, especially when you’re measuring performance and the individual has had a lot of practice performing that movement in a certain way. In order to change the muscle activation in a movement we must first understand skill …
If you want to increase strength specifically for running, you need to get closer to the biomechanics of running in your training As trainers, we’ll often get a client that wants to get stronger for running but have you ever wondered if the standard approach of squatting and deadlifting is best? The problem with strength …
When we move we don’t really know how we move, we just do it. It’s a little different in the gym as we use coaching cues to direct our movement but even then we don’t often control the subtleties of our movement. What Are Bail-Out Movements? If we’re moving and we reach a point where …
