One of our clients turned 70 on Monday. As a retired professor, he spent a substantial portion of his life sitting. The world of academia left his body substantially rounded over with a pretty significant head forward position. It took us some time but he is standing taller and moving substantially better, its been a […]
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Category: General Fitness
A still, relaxed foot
“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” […]
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 […]
A case against mobility work
Let’s start with a couple of quick definitions. First is stretching: stretching is the attempt to add range of motion (ROM) to a specific muscle. The second is mobilizations, or MOBs: MOBs are done to add ROM to a joint. Our goal today is to get you to think twice before doing either. We’ve all […]
The EPIC importance of the foot.
The picture attached shows the body proportionally to the density of nerve endings per body part. When looking at it think from an evolutionary standpoint. How would each of the oversized body parts help primitive man survive? Four organ systems are oversized in the picture. The mouth and lips, the hand, the genitals (edited off […]