If you've been around the iron long enough, you'll know that chronically achy and pissed off shoulders are the single most common ailment in athletes and lifters. The next time your shoulders are in the midst of a fiery flare up, remember... there are always smart ways to train through the pain without [...]
With the rising emergence of "movement training" in both the fitness industry and high performance athletics, it begs the question... Does movement training actually produce results? Here's why you should probably take the hyped up movement training trend with a grain of salt, especially if you are focused on improving fitness [...]
With the incidence of lower back pain sky rocketing each year along with a chronic re-injury rate reaching epidemiological levels, it's time that we set the record straight. Are YOU struggling to develop your back or do you have nagging aches that bother you? Assuming other underlying issues are addressed, training [...]
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. Chronic knee pain and meniscus dysfunction are some of the most common injuries in the active population. But don't be fooled, surgery is NOT the only option when it comes to making a full recovery. 2. Do you have meniscus dysfunction? Do this QUICK test bringing your heels [...]
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. 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 [...]
