Question: On Instagram Live you mentioned flywheel training having the potential to help certain people and not others. Can you be more specific about why someone would use or avoid exercises on a flywheel? In this video: I explain how eccentric emphasis and flywheel training may enhance performance or be detrimental to performance. What type […]
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Virtual Staff Training: Overhead pressing and Neck Mechanics
In this video: Dan got a group of coaches together for a staff training session on Zoom. We talked about a lot of issues, but we started off with a discussion of neck mechanics and how the lower cervical spine behaves differently. This led us to consider the influences of dorsal-rostral mechanics and how they […]
Q & A for The 16% – Overcoming and Yielding Actions – A Demonstration
Overcoming actions and Yielding actions of muscle are sometimes difficult to grasp because of the ingrained weakness of how we learned muscle contraction in school. While useful, the model that school provided has significant limitations. If we think differently, we can refine our understanding of how muscles can magnify pressures, allow movement to occur, and […]
Q & A for The 16% – Heels-Elevated Squat – Hip ER to Hip IR to Hip ER
Question: Hi there, Bill!! This is Fabrizio from Italy. Hope you are fine. I would like to know what happens when you exhale on the way down of a “squatty squat” (goblet or Zercher plus heel wedge for example). Are you actually biasing an expansion/inhaled exercise variation towards a more compressed strategy in this case?? […]
Q & A for The 16% – Bones and Shape Change for Bigger Lifts, Higher Jumps, and Better Breathing
Movement professionals tend to see a limited view of the human system. Focus is placed on the muscles and tendons, but the skeleton is under-appreciated. Bones bend, twist, compress and expand. They store and release a great deal of energy making them essential in the process of human performance. In this video: I explain how […]