I received this call for help yesterday on my web site. I thought it would be worth sharing. I am getting dreadful stick from my Physio at work for doing band-walking with my cricketers (was at the ECB conference that Vern did) he is saying it will cause tightness of the ITB. Bearing in mind I just do this as part of the warm up to activate the glutes. Has Vern got a beautifully succinct and conci [...]

Two weeks ago I travelled to Dublin, OH to speak at the National Throws Coaches Association Annual meeting. This is the 5th year of the association and I've spoken at each meeting. They keep getting better and better and the speaker lineup is tough to beat. This year Larry Judge, Brian Oldfield, John Godina, and Koji Murofushi were all invited speakers. The speaker I thought you'd enjoy he [...]

Buzz words are good for gorilla marketing ads trying to sell new flavors of nachos but they need to be removed from our industry. What if your heart surgeon was dropping buzz words and was into looking at cool scalpels from a conference and  new cutting "exercises" from a DVD with no idea of how to perform an opperation in regards to anatomy and physiology? Mobility training is noth [...]

I am still amazed at the number of people that coach and teach not allowing the knee go beyond the toes. Look at movement, watch games, if you do not progressively prepare the knee to go beyond the toes with CONTROL you are actually setting the athlete up to be hurt! Where does the knee go? It goes where it has to go – as long as it goes there with CONTROL! [...]

I call these the magic muscles - Glute Medius, Transverse Abdominis, Internal Oblique – If they can do everything people think they do then they must be magic! Stability is a moving target; no one muscle can be responsible for stability. It is these muscles working in synergy with other muscles that produce efficient flowing movement that reduces and produces force effectively. As far as co [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]