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Hamstrings Strengthening - Dont’s[read more]

How do you strengthen the Hamstring? In order to select effective exercises to prevent hamstring injuries and optimize sprinting performance, it is necessary to understand hamstring function. The nature of the injury & the phase of the stride cycle where the injury commonly occurs provide a major indication of hamstring function as well as insights into the mechanism of injury. Despite this clear [...]

Magic muscles[read more]

I guess this is a little bit of a continuation of the posts on isolating individual muscles. Can a muscle like the Glute Medius do everything the experts are saying it can do? Is this another of those magic muscles? No doubt the Glute Medius is important in many movements. If that is the case why isolate it? If is “shut off” then lets find exercises that wake it up as part of integrate [...]

The Forest for the Tress - A Dysfunctional Parable Part One[read more]

The Forest for the Trees - A Dysfunctional Parable - Part OneBy Iam Confused, PFPS*, AMMMIT**, and RMS***Certifications*Perfect Functional Performance Specialist**Athletic Manual Motor Manipulation Intervention Therapist***Robotic Movement Specialist - Level IIIFavorite TextbooksMovement Made Complicated by Its not Rocke tscienceThe Pelican Principles by Charles Seagull DroppingsProfessional Contr [...]

Amazing- where are we going?[read more]

This is the copy of an email forwarded to me.Do we really need this? Unfortunately this is where the field id going!"We are doing a lot of adductor and abductor work here while squatting and leg pressing. Could you make a pillow like device with a bio feedback "tone" embedded to emit a certain tone at a certain level of pressure in order to keep our people firing their adductors? Al [...]

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