Compensation Burn out

Imagine your boss approaches your department with a new task.  Roles get delegated to the strength of all employees to accomplish this task quickly and effectively. Now let us imagine that one of your co-workers is unreliable, lazy, gets off task easily,...

Core Stability with a Twist

Movement has three planes of motion; Frontal, Sagittal, and Transverse.  Most of our daily activities require the Sagittal plane.  Movements such as walking, squatting, jumping, pushing, and pulling all take place is this plane.  Movement...

Tight or Neurologically Out of Control?

Many of us feel the need to stretch muscles that we perceive as being tight. Muscles can be either be short and tight or long and tight.  A muscle that is long and tight is usually compensating for some instability.  This is where our body will create...

Mobility vs Flexibility

Mobility: how a joint moves. Flexibility: length of a muscle. Because Mobility requires your body to actively take the joint through it’s full range of motion, static stretching will not help improve mobility.  A good example would be in someone experiencing...

Eccentric Strength and Motor Control

Every effective training program should include a focus on eccentric loading. The eccentric portion of a movement is the lowering or lengthening phase, and there are enormous benefits of improving strength and control through training it specifically. Concentric...