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Applying the Model DVD Video Clips

From Gray Cook’s Applying the Model, 4-disc DVD set This workshop was filmed with four cameras to become comprehensive a 4-disc DVD set that will fil...

Movement Excerpt: Self-Limiting Exercise

Movement: Functional Movement Systems Gray Cook, Excerpt on Self-Limiting Exercise Self-limiting exercises make us think, and even make us feel more connected to exercise and to movemen...

Gray Cook’s Movement Principles

Movement: Functional Movement Systems Gray Cook, Chapter 15, Movement Principles This is part 10, the final piece of a 10-part series in which Gray further develops the 10 movement prin...

Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction Excerpt

Excerpted from Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction Evan Osar From the Introduction, pages 7-16, edited for space In his book How the Mighty Fall, author...

Dan John: Intervention Audio Book Excerpt

Intervention: Course Corrections for the Athlete and Trainer Dan John, reading Chapter One In the late ’60s, Dave Draper hunkered down in a studio for a couple of weeks to read so...

Building a Bestseller

Gaming the bestseller lists is an enormous undertaking, and even if you figure it out and have the time it takes to organize and put a plan in motion, the ranking algorithms change and ...

Let Dan John motivate you on the way to the gym!

In the late ’60s, Dave Draper hunkered down in a studio for a couple of weeks to read some kind of training information product for Joe Weider. The recording was never released, b...

Where in the world are we? Digital downloads—ebooks and video

What an amazing time to be a writer! You now have control over your writing life and your income in a way never dreamed before by writers, not only of earlier generations, but even just...

Let me give you a taste of Perform Better Long Beach 2012

What a fabulous trip to Perform Better! The filming went without flaw, thanks to the great talent of Gray Cook, Lee Burton and Thom Plummer, with Dan John, Mark Cheng, Chris Poirier and...

Choice Commentary from Perform Better Long Beach 2012

The live twitter stream using the Perform Better hashtag is long gone, but I have a surprise… I saved the best quotes for you. “The more you cook, the better you’ll lo...

What is the Functional Movement Screen?

What is a movement screen? The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is used to systematically rate and rank movement patterns. The FMS focuses on identifying significant limitations or asym...