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ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND FITNESS BLOGS, WRITTEN BY PERSONAL TRAINER & BODYWORKER, ROB STEPHENSON
Kinesthetic Literacy Part 1: Muscle Function
Issue: No Anatomy Classes Adults, kids, pretty much nobody on this planet is being exposed to anatomy education. Kinesthetic literacy has been oriented around sports, dance, and thats about it. And even these complex scenarios where movements are taught, they aren't...
Restorative Floor Routine
COMPENSATION: RELAXING THE TFL Here is a simple set of movements to do at your leisure to help encourage spine length and abdominal bracing. Often, because of lifestyles, stress, and our own defaults, the hip flexors get incredibly bound up. Once muscles start to...
What Do I Do?
The Trainer's Dilemma I had a friend ask me recently, "so Rob, what's a day in the life look like for you? I have no clue what you actually do." I love when people ask me these sorts of questions. I used to be rather embarrassed answering it. After all- I took...
Bone Density: Building A Sturdier Frame
21st Century: Aging Us Faster In case you didn’t know, there are several deteriorations that occur in our body as we get older. The two main ones are bone demineralization and muscle or fascial dehydration. Bones become brittle and muscles develop stiffness. This...
Cleaning Up Nutrition
Nutrition is paramount if you're trying to improve your body's lean muscle mass to fat ratio. The old saying, "the change doesn't happen at the gym, it happens in the kitchen" is true. If you're trying to be healthier, you have to be healthier. What I mean is- you've...
Shoulder Health: Developing End Range Strength
SHOULDER MECHANICS The shoulder joint is unique for several reasons relative to the other joints in the body, and it is important that we remember to train it, and the scapula separate from the rest of the body. We want to work the full range of motion to...
Movement Rituals
I'm convinced- if you want a body that works, you've got to train intentionally towards what you want. If you have crappy hip mobility, why are you going to prioritize squatting without acquisition of proper controlled joint articulations? If your shoulder...
Training Like a Human: What Nature Teaches Us
s Want to see and experience truth? Observe nature. Go out in nature and be in it, listen to it, feel it. Reconnect with what it means to be human. Nature was here way before we were. We were born out of it and into it, through gestation to birth. Sadly, modern day...
Basics 101: Quadped with Resistance
Think "create core tension when you breathe out" and as you breathe in, "relax into the floor, fill the back of your shirt with your spine". But DO NOT let go of the tension you created, be sure to maintain tension on abdominals This week’s video is a...
21st Century Health
21st Century: A Bronze Era We are living in a pivotal time in human existence. Technology is booming, the environment is dwindling, over one-third of Americans are overweight, and we seem to be getting sicker, lazier, and more stressed than previous years. Don't get...
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