Posture is not easy. Some athletes walk around like they lost the Superbowl and this is why I like Alan's talk at the BSMGP. Alan brought up the fact that personality has a correlation between injuries with athletes, perhaps hinting that corrective exercise is not the panacea many think. He saw the relationship between the art of coaching and sports science (namely sports medicine). When I read a [...]

One exercise that I think is a great option for those with oblique systems that tend to fail during top speed are oblique fly pulls. This exercise needs a lot of focus as it must be done slow with control. I consider this a hybrid between motor control and strength development as olympic lifts/sprinting/plyos tend to prepare the specific loading. I do think that the cook chops are good warm-up exe [...]

Please note the posture at 50m with Jeter. I am not sure what John has done in training but she is striking with great position of her hips. The pelvic position of Shelly-Ann Fraser will limit her after she becomes upright. The key is to accelerate with more quad stiffness and perhaps we will see sub 10.6 soon. [...]

Good reply’s to my post on rotation. Once again it reminds that that so often we fail to give the body credit. The structure of the body dictates its ability to move efficiently and adapt. As coaches we can’t be afraid to put the body in postures that allow it to move, adapt and self organize. Every day that I coach now I see examples of the body’s ability to solve movement pr [...]

Posture training requires a lot of time and effort, so it is more likely to see transformations with body composition than body alignment. The focus now is on getting thoracic motion to a spine that is likely to be too kyphotic. I believe that the spine will move properly if you train properly. Instead of focusing on corrective exercise prescription I focus on improving technique. The lumbar, cerv [...]

I am completely comfortable with not being popular among the fraternity of gurus, as my motives are not fueled by greed or glory. Paul Graham shared in his essays that the FBI decades ago had to change their investigation strategy with computer hackers, since a hacker's motives were not the typical drugs, money, sex, revenge. Curiosity was not on the list. I represent the irritating grain of sa [...]

The Arabesque Reach, modified from both shotput glide work and ballet is a warm-up exercise for lifting. It is a screen, a corrective movement, and just an option. From this video I can tell a lot about various strength and posture issues that must be worked on next year after the season is done with her coach as this athlete is not even going to be in the same country for most of the season. Modi [...]

The analogy of the mast of a ship being the spine is very popular but has a few problems. First, the support wires are not guy wires ( some PT from Toronto supposedly referred to them as guide wires for some reason) they are strays and shrouds. Ship building requires a lot of engineering and spouting off lame rehashing of Paul Chek is outdated at best. Paul has helped the industry back in the 90s [...]

I am using the word Trunk more and more as I find the use of the word core over used and biased towards abdominal muscles. Many of the experts are focusing on anti-rotation and that is far from effective than focusing on quality gyroscopic action of the core. A great observation from Steve (hurdlesfirst.com) is the fact the lead arm in hurdling is always moving because it's always working. The co [...]

The cut step is the last stride before the hurdle and the great hurdlers purposely alter the length and stride time in order to set up optimal take off. This is very difficult to teach as the step is so fast it can't be drilled effectively without proper coaching. I am not saying I am the expert on the cut step but many hurdlers need to set up their take off point optimally or they will find them [...]