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 […]
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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 […]
Is it safe to squat below parallel?
After having a conversation early today with a clinician for whom I have a TON of respect, I started getting all fired up and I felt it necessary to rant. So here we go. I believe that one of the easiest places to highlight the roll of biomechanics and good coaching in the training field […]