Here's What You Need To Know... 1. In today's fitness industry, women are mislead into thinking that they must protect their bodies against meaningful strength training to avoid getting too bulky and masculine. But when it comes to achieving "toned arms" fluffy sets of 100 curls with the pink dumbbells just [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Fluffy functional training with little scientific or anecdotal backing has a limited role in a physical therapists patient care, but seems to be the most popular use of "therapeutic exercise" prescription in the industry. 2. Thinking that principles of strength and conditioning no not apply to [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Functional training is the latest craze in the fitness and sports performance industries, but its blatant lack of "functional" carry over based on the science makes it one hell of a misleading hoax. 2. Just because a functional training exercise may look or even [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. If you want to stay healthy and lift forever, older lifters need to start differentiating between wants and needs. Prioritizing strength and power while placing mobility and general health and fitness on the back burner is not the recipe for long term success. 2. Ignoring [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The dynamic warm up is an integral part of the pre-training routine, but it isn't everything. The use of strategic "ramp up" sets will not only warm you up, but add pain-free volume to your training in the process. 2. If muscle and strength [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. In an ego-driven fitness industry fueled on testosterone and stupidity, it begs the question, how strong is strong enough? If you want to lift for the long haul, you better be asking these questions or dare to pay the price. 2. Overemphasizing pure strength can [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Physical Therapists are the experts in the movement system and their ability to be professionally identified as the go-to movement practitioners in the medical system with this movement based body system helps to solidify physical therapy's place in the health care continuum. 2. Staking this claim [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Trainers and coaches, if you do NOT hold a license to manipulate soft tissues, manual therapy is off limits to you, even if you think you are doing your clients a favor by going out of your scope of practice. 2. There is a [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Spinal manipulation is here to stay. Why? It's an effective and efficient way to increase mobility, reduce pain and remediate faulty movements patterns when implemented strategically into treatment. 2. Spinal manipulation dates back thousands of years, but recently the popularization of single modality traditionalist based chiropractors has [...]
The Power of Programming Supersets One of the easiest ways to cut time off your workouts and add a challenging metabolic component to hypertrophy-specific training is by including the intelligent programming of supersets and compound sets. Not only will supersets allow you to nearly double your overall workload and volume per workout, [...]
