I’ve been playing with this movement for the last several weeks and I love how it’s worked, for myself and my clients. It may just be because of where our referrals come from, but if we tallied the number of clients that walk in the door either stuck in an anterior tilt or with some […]
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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 […]
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 […]