“A STILL, RELAXED FOOT will provide you all the feedback you need, your core and hips will provide the stability” When we teach isolateral movements you will hear this phrase over, and over, and over again. I just want to take minute today and explain why. As stated in our “epic importance of the foot” […]
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Category: Exercise Selection
When back squat becomes the superior opt...
As you can see in the video front squats are not universally your better option. When an athlete has balanced posture and clean movement patterns programming is simple. When living in a society that spends the majority of their day stuck behind a desk though, finding the clean moving healthy athlete becomes extremely rare. This […]
A case for mobility work
A case for mobility work In the last post we discussed the need for lumbo-pelvic (bottom of the torso and hips) stability and its role in determining mobility and stability relationships throughout the lower body. Today we are going to talk a bit about the value of thoracic (upper back) mobility. When talking about thoracic […]
Stacking Cylinders (part 2): Exercise se...
As the saying goes, there are no bad exercises, just bad exercise selections. We are often asked why we don’t do more back squatting at our facility. It’s not that we don’t see value in back squatting, we have some clients that get great results back squatting, but when it comes to my risk/reward relationship […]
Non contact ACL injuries and the female ...
Whenever we work with soccer teams, particularly women’s teams, one question constantly comes from parents. “What are you doing to protect her ACL?” It’s a very valid question, considering over 50% of collegiate women’s soccer players have at least one ACL tear during their careers. Before we can answer it though let’s define our risk […]
Testimonial from a a distance runner
So as a precursor, Stacey came to us with piriformis syndrome and a history of IT band issue and all the typical maladies of distance running. As a mother of five she had developed some significant core dysfunction that had gone unidentified in her previous medical assessments. Turns out there was some significant scapular retraction […]