Here's What You Need To Know... 1. The shoulder and the thoracic spine are hugely related as it pertains to movement synergies. In order for the shoulder to maintain optimal health and function over the long run, your thoracic spine better be able to extend, side bend and rotate freely if [...]
The execution of the perfect push up has become a lost art in today's fitness community. With so many sexy and exciting variations of the push up that have been popularized over the years, people have simply forgotten the requisites and basics of arguably the most important upper body functional patterns [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Not all muscle contractions are alike. Each type of contraction offers unique advantages and disadvantages with respect to hypertrophy, strength, and power specific adaptations, as well as tissue repair and recovery. 2. Appreciating the differences between eccentric, concentric and isometric contractions will expedite your strength and hypertrophy goals [...]
Physical therapy, rehabilitation and corrective exercise has become painfully mundane and unexciting to both patients and practitioners. Even worse, the old school models of rehab have been producing lack luster results for far too long, leaving people more susceptible to future injuries. Corrective exercise and rehab needs to involve more than just [...]
This week's guest article comes from a coach who has truly walked the walk over the course of his career. Chad Rodgers is a retired professional baseball player who is using his unique life's experience in high performance athletics to make a difference in his client's lifestyle and training strategies. No [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Primitive developmental positions such as the all-fours quadruped and crawling positions will link up our muscular and nervous systems to keep you highly healthy and functional. 2. The quadruped position is versatile and can be utilized within dynamic warm ups, within specific neuromuscular activations drills, and in metabolically [...]
We've got the hybrid strength coach himself, Matthew Ibrahim, back on JRx today with another gem of a guest article! We are talking about prehab-rehab which is a staple topic here on DrJohnRusin.com! From the floods of emails and rave reviews of Matt's last article focusing on corrective exercises for the [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Foam rollers are showing up in gyms all over the world and becoming a popular component to nearly any type of fitness regimen. But like my motto goes, "Burn your foam roller and give your tennis ball to the dog!" 2. A majority of the more [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Al Gerard, a banged up competitive powerlifter who continued to pursue his muscle mission originated the trap bar deadlift in 1985 to take the stress off the lower back while still moving some serious iron. 2. When compared to the straight barbell deadlift, the [...]
Here's What You Need To Know... 1. Unless you plan on being a dysfunctional weakling incapable of throwing heavy shit around from time to time, you better be able to achieve and maintain some resemblance of spinal stiffness. 2. The most pivotal time to both achieve and maintain a strong extended thoracic [...]
