The purpose of this exercise is to help you get into your left hip and improve how well the socket receives the ball.
It’s easy to avoid degenerative downfall and instead promote longevity in your joints — but only if you know how.
Thinking that overtraining cannot happen is wrong. Immediately jumping to the conclusion that you need to back off or deload is also wrong.
It took Casey a month just to get everything into position for this exercise. When you try it, you’re going to be tempted to engage every muscle you have. Don’t.
The last two years have been the most uncomfortable but also the most rewarding of my life. Part of this process was putting aside my ego to address some physical dysfunctions that were holding me back.
Being stalked by the orthopedic reaper (not to mention the internal reaper) has been a challenge for Jack and I, but we have found ways to overcome every obstacle.
If you think you’ll make it in this sport by pushing through your workouts even when you’re injured or suffering, you’re wrong.
Beyond skill-set, a physical therapist’s personal belief system, communication style, vision, and philosophy are just a few things you should consider when searching for the perfect match.
You don’t need 45 minutes of mobility work for a 30-minute work out. Here are some general guidelines and an approach to effectively employing preventative and corrective work.
Is mobility even a real thing, or a substitution for people that don’t actually train, compete, or play in an actual defined activity?
Three days before my heaviest deadlift of the meet training program and I couldn’t even bend down to grab the bar. Here are the techniques I used to mitigate my issues and make it to Boss of Bosses 3.
This is a time when your mind will start to play tricks on you. Are you mentally committing to the time off?
In this video, Brad Cox and Chris Duffin provide corrective strategies to improve range of motion and shoulder stability with a strongman athlete who recently injured his shoulder.
Day 1: Constant, crippling pain. Day 10: Pain free. This is the new game plan for lower back nerve pain.
Are you getting beat up from squatting, benching, and deadlifting? Here’s a handful of tips to help cure what ails you.
Although it’s hard to generalize knee pain, here are several things I commonly see in a clinical setting. You can attack these issues in a number of ways.
When I left the certification with Douglas Heel, I told him that his system has had the biggest impact on my thoughts on strength training since finding Westside Barbell.
For a lot of reasons, we haven’t shared the details of what has been going on to help my training. I’m going to bring everyone up to speed now.
Every relationship has its highs and lows. You can’t stay on the honeymoon forever.
Once the orange ones lose their painful effect, you need to get yourself blue balls. Yeah, I said it. Blue balls.
Things are getting hot between Dave and JL. What’s behind this growing bond?
Get the most out of working with your rehab expert so you can move better with less pain.
But even the strongest of minds cannot pick up the slack when your body inevitably cracks, splinters and breaks.
Most people automatically brush pain off as something that is a typical part of life, but I’d say that, “no pain, no gain” is furthest from the truth.
My biggest mistake over the last few years was competing too much and training through injuries. Taking time off was probably the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do.
Cox and Duffin discuss hip shift and pelvic tilt in the squat and deadlift, giving quick fixes and demonstrating five assessments to improve your performance.
Whether you’re healthy or coming back from injury, try incorporating these things to increase force production and longevity.
If you aren’t considering this factor, your training is suffering.
You can use a sled or a prowler for a lot of reasons. People like them for conditioning but I think they’re best used for recovery and restoration when you’re getting ready for a meet.
Rotator cuff exercises are important, useful, and extremely beneficial when these four points are taken into account.
If you’re unfamiliar with this humbling training method, it works by creating significant instability and forcing the lifter to recruit additional muscle fibers and motor units.
A disc injury is not a death sentence. You now need to develop into a smarter lifter who is not only focused on PR’s but also on long term health.
Using a number of methods, here’s a look at what I did to correct a host of problems hindering my performance and health.
Let’s evaluate how to train in the final four weeks leading to a competition. Most importantly, what does it mean to taper and how should you do it?
Although the singles dating scene seems exciting, especially to a married old codger like me, my experiment with singles is of a completely different variety.
After months of research, development, and testing, we’re finally releasing an ammonia product unlike any other.
The most basic source of recovery is free and easy, powerful enough to improve your strength and conditioning without resorting to any prescribed medication. Are you taking full advantage of it?
Still searching for your quick fix? You won’t find it anytime soon.
How to use this method depends on the goal of your training. I’ve used it differently for powerlifting, bodybuilding, and rehabilitation.
No amount of strategic planning can account for your body’s unexpected responses to training and life. Be prepared to stop bowing down to your program and start listening to your body.
Using scientific study as its foundation, this article has two main goals: better explain the causes of delayed onset muscle soreness and disprove three common misconceptions.
This case study, derived from my extensive rehabilitation, details every aspect of the steps I took to overcome an unexpected and immediate halt to my training.
How many of you feel “broken” or immobile when you’re not under a bar? How are you accommodating?
You’re always going to be in one of the three phases of training. Your goal is to find a way to stay in Phase One as long as possible while avoiding Phase Three at all costs.
What does Clint do with his time when he’s not tightening his belt and huffing ammonia caps for his next set in the House of Biceps?
It’s taken me a while to grasp just how necessary these blood pumping sessions can be. Ditch the excuses and start doing these today.
If you haven’t suffered an impact injury, finding the cause of your discomfort will be a complicated challenge. Use these adjustments to help alleviate pain and discover the source of your lower-body aches.
Though they may seem simple, how, when, and why you use recovery or preparatory techniques should be determined by a deep understanding of the body’s neurological and morphological responses.
Has an injury or your busy life schedule kept you away from the gym? Proceed with caution.
Consider what areas of the body are affected, analyze what lifts aren’t improving, and come up with a plan for recovery. Now is not the time to give up.
As a bodybuilder, I frequently abuse my body through training. I had heard of the benefits of Graston for years and finally decided to give it a chance to treat several specific issues.
What may today seem like a nagging injury you can muster through, may turn a would-be long-term powerlifting career into a short-lived experience on the platform.
At times, training around an injury may be your only option in this sport. There is no easy fix, but these small adjustments can combine to keep you moving forward.
Coming off a debilitating injury, respect your body’s range of motion and only push the limits when the time is right. You’re on your way back, don’t blow it now.
The specific practices demonstrated and discussed in these videos improve power transfer and increase distal mobility through focus on proximal stability.
The shoulder is a complex and vulnerable joint for competitive athletes and lifters. Use these techniques to get your shoulders healthy and keep them moving pain-free.
When your progress slows and your body breaks down beyond repair, it’s time to reexamine your recovery and restoration protocol. Is it doing what it should?
Some people will tell you that overtraining isn’t real. Don’t listen to these people. Take the time to consider your recovery just as much as you consider your training.