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ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND FITNESS BLOGS, WRITTEN BY PERSONAL TRAINER & BODYWORKER, ROB STEPHENSON
Hip Rotators: Are You feeding Your Glutes?
JOINT CONTROL: ARTICULAR STRENGTH Today's lesson is a brief introduction to osteokinematics and arthrokinematics. You don't need to memorize them, but all you want tot know is that one is the description of a body part at the site of a joint and synovial fluid...
Your Core: Why You Need to Understand your TVA
YOUR INNER SPRING SYSTEM Today I want to take a moment and explain to your about your transverse abdominis, aka your TVA. Your TVA is a barrel-shaped layer of your abdominals, and it helps keep the ribcage and pelvis connected. It attaches at several areas of your...
Your Biomechanics
Biomechanics: Changing Your Being Your biomechanics play a crucial role in your physical shape, functioning, and development. Biomechanics is defined as the study of the mechanical laws relating to the movement or structure of living organisms. Simply put, no two...
Structural Integration 101
We fall victim to postural patterns unconsciously and subconsciously everyday. Our minds, our jobs, our relationships all warp us into shapes that are inefficient for sustained movement and health. Having been a trainer for over a decade I can appreciate our body's...
Ground Patterning: Your New Best Friend
WALK, RUN, OR THROW: GAIT 101 When it comes to movement we've got three dimensions to move in; sagittal, coronal, and horizontal. Most exercise routines are done in the sagittal; front to back. When it comes to coronal (frontal) and horizontal (transverse) training,...
Choose Your Direction
WHAT DIRECTION DO YOU WANT TO GO? Goals can be a sensitive area, especially considering half the time we attempt to accomplish something task oriented, something else inteferes and gets in the way. Outcomes rarely go as expected, and therefor goal setting can...
What Are The Best Exercises As You Age
Your Anti-Gravity Subsystem There's no stopping it, time is coming for you, and each one of us. The only chance we have to beat it is to improve our biomechanics and understand how to rebuild the spring system in ourselves. The spring system is the pliability system,...
Re-balancing Muscles, Fascia, and Joints
Bring Back Biomechanics Pain is not meant to be part of training! Sadly it's becoming the norm for most people in a gym to have chronic pains or ongoing injuries, and although a lot of it is the mentality of believing that "it is a part of working out", as much of the...
FRESH: An Acronym For Life
BALANCING THE HUMAN SYSTEM As I've grown in the fitness and health industry the hardest part to train in myself and clients has been balance. Building muscle, a routine gym schedule, or even working to achieve certain strength goals has always been the easier part...
Frontal Plane Front Rack Lunges
You can never do enough unilateral work in your training. One of the reasons I enjoy this alternative to traditional sagittal plane lunges is because you work your adductors and lateral stabilization of your pelvis. If you ever watch somebody run or walk,...
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