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, takes long breaks, shows up late, leaves early, calls out sick, etc. The boss…
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 that require side to side fall into the frontal plane, while rotation is done in the Transverse plane. Moving through the transverse plane…
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 tension to provide a sense of stability. Stretching…
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 restricted ankle mobility and trying to stretch the calves. Stretching will address a part…
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 movements are your gas pedal. Eccentrics are your brakes. Skilled race car drivers are not defined by…
Our upcoming blog series will focus on the missing links in training that we often identify with our patients. There are common themes with our patients who deal with chronic pain or experience injuries frequently with exercise. First off, Stability is by far the biggest missing link with most people. Joint stability acts as one…
The joints in our body allow us to move, receive and distribute force. Each joint in our body plays a different role in movement. The joint by joint approach addresses the mobile and stable joints in our body, which alternate from region to region. If you reference the image to the left, the…