Posts in "Articles"
Glenn Pendlay: Consistency in Olympic Lifting
No lifter is perfect, but consistency is important to Glenn Pendlay: if you're consistent with your mistakes, you can learn . . . and if you're consistent ...
Robert Linkul: Three Things I Learned Training Older Adults
Robert Linkul continues his series on training older adults. Part Two focuses on what he has learned from his lifetime clients: Three points that will help you gain and keep your own "L...
Erwan Le Corre & Gray Cook: Log Squats vs Weight Room Squats
Gray Cook and Erwan Le Corre discuss and explore log squats as alternatives to bar squats to reinforce better posture, breathing and movement quality.
Dan John: Balance = Work/Rest/Play/Pray
Dan John goes back to second grade to expand on the compass that has helped guide him to find balance in his life. It’s simple and can work for you and your clients: Work, Rest, Pray,...
Charlie Weingroff: Rolling Patterns for Rotary Stability
Charlie Weingroff explores using rolling to separate the body into quadrants and provides some pointers on proper cuing and sensitivity about wording.
Lee Burton: Corrective Strategies
Are you using corrective strategies? Or just corrective exercises? Lee Burton takes you back to the fundamentals of movement and correction.
Gray Cook: The Lack of Movement Health Requires Rehabilitation
Don’t put a fitness solution on a health problem. Gray Cook gives advice to coaches and personal trainers about when to work with their physical therapy partners to get needed rehabil...
Greg Dea: The Role of Mobility Interventions in Handling Chronic Stress
Persistent stress can wreak havoc on the nervous system. Greg Dea describes the use of mobility interventions to restore balance to the nervous system and combat other negative effects ...
Patrick Ward: Enhancing the Physiological Buffer Zone
A healthy athlete needs to have a Physiological Buffer Zone; What are you doing to that area between full physical capacity and the point of breakdown, injury or pain? Patrick Ward asks...
Emily Splichal: Walking – From Primal to Bipedal
Do you ever actually think about walking? Stride length? Restricted pelvic rotation? Chances are you’re not walking the way evolution intended you to walk. No problem, Emily Splichal ...
Kathy Dooley: The Iliacus
Kathy Dooley explores the differences, in both anatomy and function, of the iliacus and psoas. It’s all about where they originate.