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Greg Dea: Feedback and Cueing – Making Them Work Together
When coaching, we decide if a movement is satisfactory or not. That means it’s also up to us to decide which coaching strategies of feedback and cueing t...
Gray Cook: Core Stability, Compensation and Breathing
Lacking core stability? Then you’re likely down on power. Here’s how Gray Cook discerns if it’s a breathing sequence problem.
Sue Falsone: Scapula, Shoulder and Cervical Thoracic Junction Drill
Your clients likely carry tension in their shoulders, where it’s hard to manually relax them without activating something else. Try this simple drill from Sue Falsone to get them to l...
Taylor Lewis: Communication — The Missing Key Between Performance and Rehab
Why is it so hard to bridge the gap between rehab and performance? Taylor Lewis proposes a few methods to improve communication between exercise specialists and the doctors, nurses, phy...
Mark Cheng: Movement Starts with Breathing
Any discussion of fundamental movement starts with breathing. If the breathing is not correct, the body is rejecting whatever you’re trying to teach it. Mark Cheng demonstrates a simp...
Maggie Selzer & Garrett Bullock: What is Motor Control?
When you use the term “motor control,” you know what you mean. But do you know what motor control means to your listener? To your colleagues? What is motor control and why is it so ...
Gray Cook: There Are Things You Shouldn’t Coach
The best coaches know what not to coach. They know that there are training setbacks and injuries that limit them. But at any given time on the training continuum, they also know the thi...
Brian Gwaltney: The Tangential Model of Periodization
How would an engineer look at strength and conditioning? Brian Gwaltney uses a unique background to look at how theories of periodization work out in real life.
Dan John: Symmetry Work
What’s missing in strength training? Dan says “Symmetry Work” . . . and shows you just the kind of lifts and exercises he uses to identify and correct asymmetries.
Sue Falsone: The Breath
Are you devoting enough time to your client’s breathing? The breath influences our actions and emotions and is influenced by our actions and emotions . . . and chances are, it’s hav...
Stuart McGill: Creating Strong Default Patterns
Spine expert Stuart McGill focuses on how he creates the strongest default patterns – good patterns that can be strengthened with load.