Corrective Exercise Archives - Page 2 of 9 - Dr. John Rusin

20 08, 2018

Functional Isometrics For Strength, Mass & Mind-Muscle Connection
The 3 Most Effective Isometric Methods You Should Be Using

2018-08-20T15:17:27-05:00By Dr. Chad Waterbury|

Isometrics for More Muscle and Strength There are three primary actions a muscle can perform: concentric, eccentric and isometric. A concentric action means the muscle fibers are shortening, such as the “up” phase a biceps curl. An eccentric action means the fibers are lengthening, the “down” phase of a curl. An isometric [...]

30 07, 2018

5 Staple Single Arm Dumbbell Rows You Should Be Doing
The Best Row Variations For A Bigger Stronger Back & Healthy Shoulders

2018-07-30T15:57:46-05:00By Dr. John Rusin|

The King of All Rows If your goal is to develop a strong and muscular back that looks as good as it performs, you better damn well place an emphasis on the row. The single arm dumbbell row and its many variations provide the cornerstone of smart back training, and facilitate a [...]

8 07, 2018

5 Exercises To Instantly Improve Shoulder Mobility

2018-07-08T13:36:25-05:00By Jack Hanrahan|

The Most Common Pain In Fitness... According to current injury incidence trends, the longstanding king of pain and dysfunction, notorious generalized non-specific lower back pain syndrome, is no longer the most common pain complaint among the active population. It may come to a surprise to many, but surely a confirmation for many [...]

2 07, 2018

5 Foam Rolling Myths Debunked
Setting The Record Straight On True Foam Rolling Facts and Fiction

2019-04-15T07:38:47-05:00By Dr. John Rusin|

Setting The Foam Rolling Record Straight Ah, the rise of the roller! If you showed someone a foam roller in a gym 20 years ago, they'd give you a dumbfounded look and direct you to the free weights section of the gym where people actually train. Today? You'd be hard pressed to [...]

4 06, 2018

Fix Your Ankle Mobility In Five Minutes
A Systematic 5-Step Approach To Unlocking Your Ankle Mobility For Good

2018-06-04T19:31:29-05:00By Dr. John Rusin|

Unlock Those Ankles Once And For All Poor ankle mobility has been blamed for damn near everything in the weight room, especially in lifters and athletes that are chronically hurt and move like shit. This widespread nostalgia for ankle mobility has lead us to do some crazy ass things in order to [...]

12 04, 2017

Fix Your Ugly Row With This Banded Dumbbell Row Variation

2018-01-13T09:03:19-06:00By Dr. John Rusin|

The Problem With The Traditional Dumbbell Row If you want a big strong back and healthy shoulders, the dumbbell row and it's many variations must be a staple movement pattern in your training. But here's the problem; the row is theoretically super shoulder friendly, but in the real world where athletes actually [...]

8 03, 2017

Stop Squatting Through That Painful Hip Pinch!

2020-02-12T14:00:08-06:00By Andrew Millett|

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 [...]

27 02, 2017

The 8 Most Effective Coaching Cues That You Aren’t Using

2018-01-13T09:04:20-06:00By Dr. John Rusin|

Fix Your Technique With More Effective Cueing As athletes and coaches, our results are highly depend on proper movement execution and the continuous progress towards optimizing movement patterns to build a foundation of pain-free function. One of the single most challenging aspects of coaching is individualizing foundational movement patterns to best fit [...]

15 02, 2017

The One Exercise That Will Fix Your Achy Shoulders Forever

2018-01-13T09:05:02-06:00By Dr. John Rusin|

Build Your Upper Back To Save Your Shoulders With the rising incidence of chronic shoulder pain and dysfunction running ramped throughout the active population, something needs to be done to protect and rebuild healthy and pain-free shoulders. The actual mechanism of generalized front sided shoulder pain can stem from a host of postural [...]

8 02, 2017

The Smarter Alternative To Ineffective Unstable Surface Training

2018-01-17T15:53:45-06:00By Meghan Callaway|

Unstable Training... You Mean Like The Bosu Ball?! When I walk into many gyms, I often feel that I am witnessing a totally butchered, and much less elegant version of Cirque Du Soleil. I have seen countless people hopelessly flailing about on Bosu balls, wobble boards, and many other trivial devices, not [...]

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