Running Technique Errors – the easy ones and the hard ones to relearn!
Follow Ulrik as he presents the theory behind 6 Running Technique Errors that commonly are associated with, or cause through overuse, injuries. The lecture includes techniques for how to coach your clients out of these bad habits. Once you have…
Kneeling Single Leg holds and 2 progressions for Glut activation – using Sand Bags
https://vimeo.com/357987071 Extremely effective drills for isolating and activating Gluteus Medius and Maximus - the use of the kneeling position, plus opposite side loading are key tricks to force Glutes to fire and burn... Safe and very effective for all hips!
ISOMETRIC ISO-INTEGRATION HOLDS: ACHILLES
Thanks for your patience last week, and now let's open up the world of Isometrics for you! It’s a more recent development in the world of tendon rehab, and I’ve certainly used it to good effect with my own grumpy…
Rehab Combos Single Leg Hip Control
So we have the last of the Rehab Combos for you today…especially useful for ALL running sports as a warm-up….and if you are carrying niggling injuries from your running! Loosening the TFL (hip flexor and internal rotator) comes first ……
TENDON COMPRESSION PAIN: ACHILLES
I suppose the main message we are trying to bring forward with this series on Tendon Compression locations around the human body is simply that: Biomechanics matter more than Pathology! The main problem with each of these sites of compression…
Personal Trainers Beware #8: Chronic Pain
The longer you are in pain, the more it messes with your head, begins to affect how you think about yourself, destroy healthy routines like exercise, how your relationships work, and finally your deepest beliefs about life, the Divine, and…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #10: Unusual History
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE... IF YOU DON'T ASK - YOU'LL MISS IT! As Adam explains in his last video in our current series, the critical thing is to ask the right questions in order to bring out the important information about…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #7: PSYCHOLOGICAL / EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES
THE PSYCHE WILL AFFECT PAIN "Pain Is All In Your Head" - did you know that? When you whack yourself with a hammer, it feels like the pain is in your thumb. But really, it's in your brain.Countless human stories, neuroscience…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #9: NEUROLOGICAL ISSUES
So while in previous Rehab Cafe posts we have stressed the ideas that emotions may increase the pain experience, and that chronic pain is actually in the brain not the body, let’s now also remember that the body does break down at…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #4: ARTHRITIS
In all my years of clinical treatment, I found this Musculoskeletal condition the most subtle, the hardest to identify, and therefore the easiest to miss - Inflammatory Arthritic conditions that change the blood content and therefore trigger autoimmune system responses…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #2: HYPERMOBILITY
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE! #2 In our second of 10 musculoskeletal situations that are important to have in your background knowledge, let us look at Hypermobility. Perhaps it is a bit harsh to say “Beware!” about this common condition, rather we could say…
PERSONAL TRAINERS BEWARE #1: ALTERED ANATOMY
I’m delighted to introduce you to Adam Floyd (see BIO), my buddy and fellow Rehab Educator and Physiotherapist in Perth, Western Australia - he runs a Physiotherapy Clinic and a Gym! The next 10 newsletters will include his Conference presentation that YOU voted for! He…
Holding Pattern #8: Forefoot pressure
HOLDING PATTERN #8 FOREFOOT DOWNWARD PRESSURE Our lucky last “Holding Pattern” - where we find clients suffering with all manner of lower limb injuries from achilles to knee problems - is Forefoot Pressure into the Ground.Subconscious tension in their muscular system reveals itself…
Gluteus Medius and Maximus drill #1: THE “DONKEY CLAM”
THE "DONKEY CLAM" FOR GLUTEUS MEDIUS So what’s the take-home message coming through from all our newsletters and videos from the last couple of months? All the running technique errors, lower limb muscle imbalances, and weakness on testing, leads us to….…
DR ANDREA MOSLER: TESTING HIP ABD / ADD RATIOS
The APA Physiotherapy conference devoted a small amount of time to a topic that fascinates me - hip muscle strength ratios; and the speaker was a Specialised Sports Physiotherapist who now is full-time doing research in the UAE with International…
RUNNING CASE STUDY CHALLENGE 4: DOES THIS RUNNING STYLE WORRY YOU?
Today is our last Running Case Study before we begin our series next Friday from what I will learn at the Australian Physiotherapy Conference at the Gold Coast, Australia. I can’t wait to attend as a learner, and bring you…
RUNNING CASE STUDY CHALLENGE 3: WHAT’S WEIRD ABOUT THIS RUNNING STYLE
RUNNING CASE STUDY CHALLENGE #3 Thanks to Kate in Auckland, NZ this time for capturing really well her client running on the video that we analyse. Although there are some quite unusual and technical elements this time (as well the…
RUNNING CASE STUDY CHALLENGE 1: OLD ACL INJURY
RUNNING CASE STUDY CHALLENGE Hi, "Selamat pagi” (good morning) from Indonesia at GOIFEX Fitness Conference…teaching and busy practicing my Bahasa Indonesia for the first time in 30 years. I lived there as a kid! Ok are you ready for a…
Running Technique: Case Study
RUNNING CASE STUDY Today, we are looking at one in depth video assessment I did of a friend about 5 years ago (forgive the rather dated formatting!) - closely observing his gait and running mechanics and attempting to understand everything…
Running Error #5 Foot Flicking
HOW'S YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE: FOOT FLICKING? Thank you to all those who have sent in their short videos of themselves and clients running - really nice to have you responding! Looking forward to analysing 5 of those videos in the…
Running Technique Error #3: Heavy Foot
HOW'S YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE: ONE FOOT TOO HEAVY? Add this critical technical running error into your list - And it’s A MUST: Is one foot landing much heavier than the other? How often have you really listened to the pounding…
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