Bill Hartman

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  • Increasing Dorsiflexion: Cuboid Mobilization

    Increasing Dorsiflexion: Cuboid Mobilization

    One of the most common deficits we see in our athlete in regard to ankle mobility is a loss of dorsiflexion.  While there are many potential influences, one that we find frequently is a lack of cuboid mobility.

    Loss of cuboid mobility will restrict movement of the 4th and 5th metatarsals and block dorsiflexion.  Many times client may complain of midfoot or lateral foot discomfort or pressure when performing common ankle mobility drills.

    If you’ve got manual therapy skills, you can alleviate the pain or pressure and restore dorsiflexion with a simple cuboid mobilization as show in this video.

    If you lack manual skills, you can still get an improvement in dorsiflexion by performing a self-mobilization of the cuboid with a lacrosse ball.  Be sure to test and then retest your dorsiflexion to make sure you’re mobilizing the cuboid effectively.

    Let me know how it works for you.

    Bill

  • IFAST Assessment: Sport Specific Analysis

    How quickly can you make a change in your clients’ performance?

    6 weeks?

    4 weeks?

    How about instantly?  Don’t believe me?  Here’s the proof.

    I’m going to show you a young baseball player that came to IFAST this week.  He’s already experiencing success, but he’s looking to get even better.

    He’s a got a great sport coach.  He gets it.  He knows that for his coaching to be effective, he needs an efficient athlete.

    He sees the way his athlete reacts to his coaching, and he’s experienced enough to know that this ballplayer needs something that he can’t provide.  So he came to us after learning of our IFAST Assessment, and how we can impact his athlete’s performance.

    Whenever possible, we’ll view the athlete performing their sport as nothing can duplicate the exact demands related to force, mobility, energy demands, etc.  Couple this with the findings in our generalized assessment component, and we are capable of determining the exact source of dysfunction that may be preventing the athlete from playing to their potential.

    We performed the generalized component of the assessment and then went outside to confirm some of the findings from the generalized assessment.

    Here’s what his throwing looked like.   Pay close attention to the “short arm” appearance of his throw and lack of rotation and follow-through.

    After viewing his throwing, we confirmed the source of his dysfunction and applied a specific, appropriate intervention to make the correction.

    Here’s what his throwing looked like after the intervention.  Keep in mind that this video was shot only a few minutes after the first.

    Even if you know nothing about throwing sports, you can see the improvement in follow-though and velocity.

    So what did we do to make this change?

    Did we stretch something?  Nope.  But range of motion and mobility did improve in just a couple minutes

    Did we strengthen something?  Nope.  But strength did improve too.

    Truth be told, the intervention doesn’t matter because it was specific to this athlete’s needs.  Needs that were determined by the IFAST Assessment System.

    You can learn the IFAST Assessment July 27-28 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

    Register for Diagnosis Fitness:  The Complete IFAST Assessment System

     

  • IYCA Summit Powerpoint Download

    As promised, here’s my powerpoint from this weekend’s IYCA Summit 2012

    IYCA Summit 2012 presentation

  • Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale!

    Hey,

    Just a quick FYI…

    As is now tradition, you can get Assess & Correct at a 15% discount.

    Just head over to my buddy, Mike Robertson’s website and grab it before end of day Monday when it goes back to its original price.

    You can also get the same discount on all Mike’s programs as well which is an amazing deal.

    Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

    Bill

  • Last Day for Peak Diet & Training Summit Discount and Muscle Imbalances Revealed Update

    Today is the last day you can get Joe Dowdell’s and Dr. Mike Roussell’s Peak Diet & Training Summit for $100 off.

    I can’t tell you how important it is that you get this seminar.

    First, the quantity of information is off the charts.  15 DVD’s and over 600 pages of information from two of the top guys in the fitness industry.

    Second, they left no stone unturned in regards to the number of topics covered fully in depth.

    This is one of those resources that is a must have because you go back to this information as a foundational reference time and time again.  If I would have had this resource when I first started in the fitness industry, it would have saved me years of trial and error and countless mistakes.

    Here’s a little Q & A from Dr. Mike regarding this seminar:

    Question #1 – Can you give us a little idea of what is covered in
    this resource?

    Everything 🙂

    Seriously, this is the most comprehensive training and diet program
    created to date. From a training perspective this program covers
    assessment, periodization, how to training the different strength
    qualities, how to structure a training session, energy systems
    training, and how to manipulate sets, reps, tempo, and rest periods
    for accelerated results.

    The nutrition portion of the program covers the important of
    identifying your clients’ location on the nutrition spectrum and how
    to coach to them based on their place, core nutrition habits, results
    driven supplementation, fat loss diets and their progressions, muscle
    building diets and their progressions, and the science behind workouts
    nutrition.

    Question #2 – Why is this different from all the other diet & training
    resources available today?

    Okay so the elephant in the room regarding online diet and training
    resources/products is that most of their creators are ‘reporters’ of
    information and not practitioners. The information that Joe and
    Dr. Mike share in this program is a combination of research and
    practice. Nothing this comprehensive that has real world street
    cred as ever been produced.

    Question #3 – How will this help my training business?

    With the Peak Diet & Training Design program you will learn how
    to write better and more effective training programs. You will
    learn how to train and coach to specific clients instead of using
    a cookie cutter approach. From a nutrition perspective, you will
    learn how to get you clients to eat better starting from day 1.
    You’ll discover how to actually get them to make changes in
    their diets that have an impact.

    This program will help your training business by getting your
    clients more results faster which will lead to better retention,
    more referrals, and more money for you. Pretty simple.

    Get it today and save yourself $100!

    Peak Diet & Training Summit

    P.S. Don’t forget that you get 2.0 CEU’s from the NSCA as well.

    Question:  Hey Bill, what’s different about the newer version of Muscle Imbalances Revealed for the upper body?

    There are 9 things that have been added to MIR2.

    Update #1 – Mobility Med Ball Workout – A stack of upper body mobility exercises to help improve movement and stability in the upper body that can be done with a medicine ball.

    Update #2 – UBD – Bootcamp Edition – A really easy and fast 4 minutes warm up that you can do with your bootcamp or clients to help get them ready for their workout and prevent injuries.

    Update #3 – Upper Body Release – Some techniques for manual therapists on different techniques to release the upper body.

    Muscle Imbalances Revealed Upper Body 2.0 <== 47% off

    Update #4 – VIP Coaching Call # 1 – Where we answered a variety of question but some of the highlights are how to address strength differences on different sides of the body, lifts to address hip dominance and where does breathing factor in when teaching lifts.

    Update #5 – VIP Coaching Call #2 – The first one was so popular so we did a second call. Highlights from this call were  what to do with a meatheads that don’t want to do the corrective exercises, training considerations for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI), and what to do about piriformis pain syndrome.

    Muscle Imbalances Revealed Upper Body 2.0 <== 47% off

    Update #6 – Top 7 Core Exer cises – I asked Dean Somerset, “What are his Top 7 Core Exercises?” He shows them in this video.

    Update #7 – Top 9 Meathead Exercises – I asked Tony Gentilcore, “What are the Top 9 Exercises for Meatheads to Lift More?” I go through them in this video.

    Update #8 – Upcoming VIP Coaching Call – As you can see, from above. We will be doing one more of these. Make sure to send us your questions and we can answer them.

    Update #9 – Forum Area to Ask Questions – We have set up an area that you can ask your questions. You can put your questions here and we will answer them.

    Muscle Imbalances Revealed Upper Body 2.0 <== 47% off

    Bill