The Functional Movement Screen is an assessment that got a lot of heat a few years when Vern and Mike Boyle argued about it's effectiveness. My stance is closer to Vern's as Mike's responses were not very convincing. I was exposed to the FMS years ago when manuals were actually in paper format and experts were older than college graduates. During that time I was reading everything in the office [...]
Designing and implementing a comprehensive training for an athlete in any sport is a complicated task on one level and a very straight forward undertaking on the other. First recognize that you must understand the demands of the sport, the event or position in the sport, the qualities of the individual athlete and you must address prevention in terms of common injuries that occur within the sport. [...]
I love the back and forth debates of the use of the Scorpion mobility exercises. Forces you to think and make a choice of if they are practical, dangerous, or effective. One attack on Mike Roberston was his inclusion of the Scorpion exercise as part of the MM DVD. Leave attacks to Mike and Eric alone as it's not a finishing move in the UFC. Are they blowing up spines with the exercise? Where is t [...]
SLD are perhaps the most overrated exercises that continue to annoy me as kinetics and kinematics are clear. Enough with the thoracolumbar fascia rehashing as that system is mainly structural. My first experience with the exercise was in the early 90s watching glide style shot athletes use it for their balance work. SLD is not a strength exercise as single leg contact decreases the balance point [...]
I understand times, but I think it is more basic than that. Ultimately it is about competition, the times will come. Think back to elementary school, everyone knew the fastest kid in the school or in the summer when you were at the pool you raced to see who was fastest. Time was not a consideration. At junior high school play days you raced to see who was the best, oh by the way they ran a faster [...]
