Performance Tools for Better Health and Athleticism! It can be a great discouragement for many trainees when progress in the gym is hindered by sports injuries. The chaotic world of sport sometimes places our joints and connective tissue in unpredictable situations. These situations can be quite different from the ones that [...]
The Foam Roller Isn't Just For Traditional Self-Myofascial Release Just because you are using a foam roller as a tool doesn’t necessarily mean that movement should be considered a self-myofascial releases (SMR) technique. This may be hard for some of you overly touchy feely soft tissue zealots to conceptualize, but the foam [...]
How To Be A Strength-Focused Physical Therapist “Hi, I’m Scotty and I’m a Physical Therapist.” It wasn’t that long ago that this confession would have been my caveat emptor prior to engaging in conversations about physical therapy and strength training. There has been both much criticism and much support for the idea [...]
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 [...]
Sports Specialization Is Making Youth Less Athletic A new study by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health which included over 1,500 high school athletes found that athletes who specialized in one sport were twice as likely to report a lower extremity injury as compared to those who [...]
Should You Really Care About Posture? One can define posture as the position in which the body operates under gravity. With that definition in mind, many possibilities come to mind. It could be that we are referring to standing, seated or lying posture, for example. Why is standing posture more intriguing? Your [...]
Are You Force Feeding The Barbell Deadlift? Let’s be honest, we’ve all tried to force the issue with certain lifts at some point in time during our lifting careers. We read all these different articles from different sites that say you have to do X, Y, and Z, and then when you [...]
Foot and ankle training is a topic that is relatively neglected and overlooked in the field of kinesiology. However, proper activation and function of these areas is not only vital for maximizing performance and strength but is also critical for tissue health and injury prevention. Other than [...]
There aren’t many injuries more debilitating than a knee injury. Trust me, I know from experience. In my mid-twenties I tore my ACL during a basketball game. Eight months of rehab got me back to full strength, but three years later I tore it again, this time while snowboarding. My second injury [...]
Recovery from an injury can be a particularly frustrating time for any athlete, compounded when insufficient advice had been offered to expedite the process. Too often, a “basic” approach is employed, entailing the use of ice, lots of rest and a prescription NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug). While this will fix an injury, [...]
