Your daily activities and common postures influence your ability to increase and maintain normal joint range of motion and mobility. If you’ve got a few glaring issues that seem to be larger influences, make an effort to identify activities that promote the negative adaptation. For instance, reduce your sitting frequency and duration or make corrective […]
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ACL Injuries in Females
A recent study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine has identified another potential contributor to ACL injuries in female athletes. It seems that females tend to have an imbalance between the heads of their gastrocnemius with the lateral gastroc being much more active than the medial gastroc during straight ahead running and cutting. This may […]
Strength Inspiration
“I can’t wait until I’m strong enough, so I don’t have to do this anymore.” -Steve K. at 6 am this morning I really like this 1,000+ squat video of Fred “Dr. Squat” Hatfield. By today’s standards, his squat suit is inferior, he has to walk the bar out of and back into the racks, […]
Individualize your approach
The approach that you take to improve joint range of motion or mobility depends on the needs of the individual. We can’t assume that one method will be effective in every case. That’s why some form of assessment is usually in order to determine which method to apply to achieve the desired result. For example, […]