Functional movement involves many planes of movement and multiple joints moving simultaneously throughout. The core must be able to stabilise the spine during these movements in order to transfer forces effectively and to protect you from injury and pain.
Read MoreFlexibility and mobility in the adductor (inner thigh) muscles are essential for sports like martial arts or dancing, where open hips are necessary to performing skills like kicking.
Read MoreThe most common cause of Sciatica is compression of the sciatic nerve by a herniated disc. The most obvious symptoms for sciatica is pain in the lower back, buttocks, knee, and leg.
Read MoreWhen the muscles of your core are strong and coordinating efficiently with each other (timing has an important role to play in the function of the core), your spine is strong and stabilised against injury and pain.
Read MoreEven if your sport doesn’t involve jumping specifically, the vertical leap is still used to measure an athletes explosive potential. Maximise your vertical jump by learning and practicing specific components of the movement.
Read MoreBeing able to hip hinge means that you can bend from the hips while keeping a neutral spine. This is especially important if you want to engage safely in exercises like a deadlift, which requires a good level of hamstring mobility and strength.
Read MoreThe physical world is 3 dimensional and so is our movement. It’s not just in sporting situations, but even daily activity like putting on clothes require the use of rotation, flexion/extension, and abduction/adduction of limbs, occurring simultaneously or at least in quick succession.
Read MoreTo move is to live. According to biology, movement is a basic characteristic of life. Everything that lives, moves. So why don’t we put more emphasis into how we do it?
Read MoreIf you find that your knees are falling inwards or that your hips are hiked on one side during exercise (e.g running or squatting), it usually means there is a weakness or lack of coordination in your hips stabilisers, like the gluteal muscles.
Read MoreThe more dorsiflexion you have, the closer you can get your hips towards your base of support (your foot) in a squat or pistol squat.
Read MoreAnkle mobility has gotten a lot of attention in recent times for being an essential component of the squat, and rightly so, but let’s not forget another major joint involved in the squat.
Read MoreIf the muscles that are responsible for shoulder movement aren’t functioning properly, something else will in it’s place. These exercises will help mobilise and strengthen your shoulder muscles so that you can move into overhead positions, both safely and with efficiency.
Read MoreYour hips don’t lie. When you repeat this seated sedentary pattern for this long, the structures in your hips become weaker and less mobile. Here’s what you can do.
Read MoreUpper Crossed Syndrome is a muscle imbalance usually as a result of poor posture, which is common in a sedentary lifestyle. Here’s what Alec Morrison did to help fix it over 6 weeks.
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