Archive for Injury Prevention
Learning to Deadlift Part 1 – Hip Extension
This week’s post is a video post focusing on showing a beginner how to recruit the glutes and hamstrings, which is essential both from a performance standpoint and an injury-prevention standpoint. It helps to have access to a glute/ham raise but can be done without if you’re creative enough. Part 2 will go through the [...]
Stop Knee Pain Before It Starts
At some time or another, almost every serious athlete is going to experience periods of knee pain. Whether it’s a runner who is feeling the effects of running on concrete, the football player who’s made one too many quick direction changes, or just your average gym rat whose knees are starting to bark at them [...]
5 Tips to a Stronger Midsection
Odds are, if you’ve actually taken the first step of going to the gym, one of your goals is probably to improve your midsection. You might want a nice little six-pack to take to the beach with you this summer, you might be an athlete who needs more core strength, or maybe you’re just a [...]
