https://vimeo.com/357986772 Eb demonstrating how to activate Gluteus Maximus on unilateral and bilateral hips with tubing pulling posteriorly - an Iso-Integration Technique that improves hip-hinge and gives Glutes something to fight against to help them fire properly. **Focus on NO Lumbar…
This drill doubles as an "Active Release technique" of the anterior Hip myofascial tissues (TFL, Rectus Femoris and Vastus Lateralis muscles, as well as multiple layers of fascia and connective tissues) that become stiff and restricted. In addition, it is…
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 ……
Welcome to a new series I’m calling “Rehab Combos” - all about the art and science of combining "Hands-On” loosening techniques (but of course for the Fitness Professional they are not strictly hands-on, rather using tools of some sort!) with "Activation Drills”. This…
Let’s dive around the back of the lower limb to look at what may happen (especially for athletes) at the upper hamstring: The upper hamstring tendon attaches onto the ischial tuberosity. When the hip is in flexion, the hamstring tendons…
Today - myofascial and trigger point releasing for Gluteus Medius / Maximus and Piriformis. We said last week that triggers and hypersensitivity in these muscles muscles will keep your Hamstrings overactive and on high alert…affecting the Grumpy Knee. I remember always having…
What’s the difference from the still image of the woman stretching (A), and the moving image (B) (nearly inappropriate)? Can you see how one may make anterior tilt worse, and the other (yes it's B) will slowly but surely create…
Today why not enjoy a little taste of the video series I have been creating with the Functional Training Institute - as part of our up and coming new online product named the “Injury Prevention Kit”. Our drill today is…
Overactive Hamstrings really mess with human biomechanics, and need to be deactivated via as many different channels as possible. One of them will be the best switch for you; for your client. So far we have simply said that Trigger…
Do you struggle to grow your Glute Max? Perhaps you have some of what last week I affectionately called "No Ass Syndrome”? It is a fun way to describe the effect of having (probably) too much posterior tilt in your…
If you haven’t seen it before let me introduce you to the decline board for patellar tendon pain - an idea developed specifically for the purpose of eccentrically loading degenerative patellar tendons, in order to create positive changes in the…
Unedited teaching time from a few years back! Teaching in jeans?? Hahahaaa
HOW'S YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE: OVER-STRIDING? We’ve arrived at the 6th and most challenging Running Technique Error just in time for our 2015 launch of Masterclasses - happening this weekend in Melbourne and Manila! Over-Reaching is the most complex and also most…
HOW'S YOUR RUNNING TECHNIQUE: HUNCHED UPPER BODY? Staying now with our 5 Technique Errors of running that form a part of Rehab Masterclass, let’s tackle the one which perhaps more than any other makes for an aesthetically pleasing, effortless-looking run…
HOW'S YOUR POSTERIOR TILT? Today we are facing off against one of the biggest challenges in our advanced societies: Low Back Pain (LBP). For many it is a slow creeping monster that gradually tightens its hold as we sit for…
LET'S LOOSEN THOSE HAMMIES! Hi, Did you know that one of the main reasons Hamstrings so often feel tight on you or your clients is not because they actually are tight? Should we just do more stretching like the picture above to help…
