Athletes Battling Low Back Pain It always amazes me that 80% of people in the world have had low back pain at least once in their life! That statistic is huge. I mean, come on now, 80% of people in the world! That stat isn’t just saying people who sit on the [...]
There's No Excuse To Squat Through Hip Pain You heard me! Stop squatting through that “tightness”, “pinching sensation” in the front of your hip. Many times, people say that they feel a “pinching” or “tight” feeling on the front of their hip when they squat. Most of the time, it is [...]
Training with Pain: Are you Injured or Are You Dead? If you’ve spent any amount of time in the iron game, then you have probably had some type of ache and pain. Whether it be a tweak or a twinge from attempting to max PR your squat or from doing a [...]
Are ankle mobility issues limiting your ability to train effective, or worse, predisposing you to injuries? Here are 10 exercises to help you improve your ankle mobility quickly and effectively. These drills will address potential joint restrictions, soft tissue tone and tightness, and of course teach you how to incorporate movement to [...]
The hips are a common area that clinicians, strength coaches, and even athletes and patients have complaints of immobility or tightness. Hip mobility is an important area for mobility in order to decrease the stress and strain on the lumbar spine, knees, or other areas of the kinetic chain to have [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Not everyone is built the same, has the same past injury history, the same skill level and movement competence or has the same goals. So why would everyone deadlift the same way? 2. Appreciating and measuring the differences in ankle, hip and spinal structure, mobility, [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. If you are habitually stretching your hamstrings day after day with little flexibility to show for it, it's safe to say that stretching isn't working for you, so time to figure out something that actually produces results. 2. Not all "tight" hamstrings are the same, [...]
