Archive

Mark Cheng: Cross Crawling

Mark Cheng gives great coaching cues for cross crawling and explains why you should be using it to engage your clients’ mobile stability. https://www....

Sophia Drysdale

Sophia McDermott Drysdale: Training Pregnant Clients—Avoid These Exercises

Part II of A Trainer’s Guide to Pregnant Clients As fitness professionals, we are keenly aware that women are routinely given mixed information about tr...

Gray Cook speaking at Stanford University

Gray Cook: Function or Dysfunction

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMAHtpFRR7E&start=13 What’s the definition of function? To me, function is a state where we pursue physic...

Functional Movement with Gray Cook

Gray Cook: What I Look for in a Functional Movement Screen Score

What do I look for in a Functional Movement Screen score?  That’s probably the most frequently asked question I get about the Functional Movement Scr...

Dan John: Programming Checklists & Calendars

Dan John on the importance of programming checklists and calendars as he humorously tackles the fitness industry’s superficial view of time and commitm...

Evan Osar drill for shoulder stabilization

Evan Osar: Forward Shoulder Posture and Scapular Retraction Exercises, Part II

Use and Misuse of Scapular Retraction During Pulling Exercises The forward shoulder position is a common postural alteration that contributes to a variety...

Mark Reifkind: Diaphragmatic Breathing

Breathing is simple. Right? But, what if your aren't doing it correctly . . . 23,000 times each day? Mark Reifkind explains the importance of diaphragm...

Sophia Drysdale on training pregnant clients

Sophia McDermott Drysdale: A Trainer’s Guide to Pregnant Clients

There’s a long-held misconception that pregnant women shouldn't work out. As a trainer and a coach, I am constantly receiving feedback from my pregnant ...

Lee Burton: Building on the FMS Performance Pyramid

It’s easy to focus on strengths, but identifying weakness is our job. Lee Burton uses the FMS Performance Pyramid to discuss the foundation of performanc...

Evan Osar drill for shoulder stabilization

Evan Osar: Forward Shoulder Posture and Scapular Retraction Exercises

Use and Misuse of Scapular Retraction During Shoulder Exercises and The One Simple Key to Improving the Forward Shoulder Posture You’ve seen it far too ...

Stuart McGill: Hip Anatomy

Is it ever all right to lose the deep squat? Stuart McGill discusses the reality that many people don’t have the hip anatomy to keep it. https://www.y...