Lower back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide, with about one-half of all working Americans admitting to having back pain symptoms each
This is one of the most common questions I get so I thought it would be good to expand on it today. It’s the all
The diaphragm!The diaphragm plays a major role in trunk stabilization and posture by creating and modulating the correct amount of IAP to minimize excessive spinal
Other than bracing for a heavy lift, most CrossFit athletes don’t pay much attention to the way they’re breathing—inside or outside the gym. How many times
So you’ve been crushing it at the gym over the past few months. Your body is getting stronger and your conditioning is improving. Until one day you begin to notice some nagging pain after your finish up a workout…
Part 4 – Shoulder Pain
It is important to appreciate that the “ball-and-socket” joint doesn’t have much of a socket. And it is also important to appreciate how the shoulder blade has only one small boney connection to the rest of the body…
Part 3 – Knee Pain
Almost all main powerlifting movements involve utilizing the hip musculature. Even in a bench press, the client is trained do drive through the legs, utilizing the hips to improve stability of the body during the exercise…
Part 2 – General Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a pandemic! So, it makes sense, when training for health and injury prevention, to use these movements in your training and to perform them well…
Sprain your ankle, tweak your back, sharp knee pain at the bottom of your squat? For many, the next step is to slap an ice
Part 1 – What is Powerlifting?
This, at face value, may sound dangerous, daunting, and possibly scary. I mean, one of the exercises has the word dead in it! And, you know, people on the internet say that lifting weights can’t be good for your back, and you should never lift weights overhead. Also, your friend knows a jacked guy that has injuries so, how can this possibly be therapeutic?
At some point or another we’ve all woken up with a “crick in our neck” or finished a workout with neck pain. Why is that?
Have you ever seen someone squat in the gym with their knees about to touch? What about that time you were running behind someone and