by admin | Oct 19, 2019 | alignment, alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, Anatomy Trains, Efficiency, elasticity, embodiment, Finding center, fitness, flexibility, foundation, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, gait work, Hip flexors, hip knee ankle, Human Optimization, Human Performance, improve performance, Improved Cognition, Intention, Intrinsic stability, Joint control, Kinesthetic, Muscle Association, Muscle balance, Nature, Nervous System, Optimization, Personal Training, Physical medicine, Postural correction, Posture, Practice, Spatial Medicine, structural integration, sustainability, sustainable, swimming, Tensegrity, tissue health
Tensegrity & the Body Tensegrity is an elision of ‘tension + integrity’. Buckminster Fuller, building on the highly original sculptures of Kenneth Snelson, coined the term, to indicate that the integrity of the structure derived from the balance of tension...
by admin | Apr 27, 2019 | aerobic work, alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy in motion, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, Gait, health, Healthness, healthy joints, Human Movement, Human Optimization, Joint control, Joint health, Kinesthetic, Kinetic Chain, Physical therapy, Physiology, Postural correction, Posture
In my fifteen years of being a part of the exercise and health community the subject of acquiring and improving one’s health is something that most people all agree on. People want to be healthy. For some healthy is a mindset, they want to have a job that...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | alignment training, deep core, diaphragm, posterior chain, Postural correction, Restorative, Rugged, Scapula, TVA
This one is a burner. Difficult to do alone, but incredibly effective for assisting in postural tensioning between the shoulders and the hips. Seriously, I have clients do this and they sweat, they shake, basically it is way harder than it looks. WHY DO IT: Because...
by admin | Feb 20, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy Trains, anterior chain, balance, core, deep core, diaphragm, Postural correction, Posture, Train Rugged, training, Training with purpose, TVA
Understanding how to isometrically brace the spine serves us a lot of good. If the core muscles aroud the spine can understand how to ‘brace’ then we can progress more confidently into the next stages of training- that is, integrating the extremities of...
by admin | Feb 1, 2018 | alignment training, Anatomy Trains, Athletic performance, balance, Biomechanics, Blog, body, Body Care, elasticity, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, Glutes, Human Performance, Human potential, improve performance, Improved Cognition, Intrinsic stability, Joint control, Joint health, Kinesthetic, Mental Health, Mobility, Motor Control, movement, Muscle Association, Muscle balance, Physiology, Postural correction, psoas, rectus abdominis, Rugged, running, structural integration, Tensegrity, tissue health, Train Rugged, training, TVA
The buzz is out everybody, functional training is in. But what is functional training? Everybody seems to have a gimmick, in a moment I’m going to share my gimmick, but seriously, wtf is functional training? A lot of times, programs and trainers are going to...
by admin | Dec 1, 2017 | alignment training, Anatomy, Anatomy Trains, balance, Biomechanics, functional movement, Functional Patterns, functionality, gait work, health, Optimization, Personal Training, Postural correction, Posture, Rugged, Tensegrity, TVA
“Parlez-vous Français?” Learning a New Language Body mechanics (ie; flex, extend, bend) are a language, just like any other industry. As a trainer it becomes my job to teach you, the mover, how to understand this language through the application...