Just a quick note to let you know that if you’re not signed up for our seminar in August, the early bird registration ends this Saturday. You’ll save $50.
Go here to get all the info:
http://www.robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog/2010-midwest-seminar-updates
Bill
Here’s a couple resources that you can use to help you with correcting your muscle imbalances:
Fix Your Posture to Maximize Muscle
The Following is a great new program put together by my friend Rick Kaselj. Rick is a master of correcting muscle imbalances with exercise, but he went a step further and brought in 6 more experts to give you an incredible resources. This is a must have for trainers looking for the edge on the competition.
By the way, I’m now on Twitter. I’ve also sent a bunch of text messages lately. As much as I fight it, technology is winning!! Anyway you can find me on Twitter HERE.
Whether you have painful shoulders or just can’t perform chin-ups or pull-ups, you can still do your vertical pulling exericse. After some experimenting with a few versions, we’re using this one with great success with clients who just can’t do an effective pull-up or chin-up. Sure we still use bands to assist with vertical pulls, but this allows some variation. Give it a try and let me know how it goes.
Hi all,
Yes, I’m aware that I haven’t posted in a while. I have some stuff going on that’s taking priority, so my apologies.
However, I wanted to make sure that you were aware that my buddy Mike Robertson still has his new Single-Leg Solution on sale until midnight tonite.
Mike’s new program is an integral part of any training program, but more specifically, we use Mike’s program in the early phases of programming as a compliment to our Assess and Correct progressions.
Here’s why.
One of the keys to effective training and performance is assuring that normal proprioception is intact. To have normal proprioception, you must have full range of motion at each joint. Otherwise, the information coming from the peripheral joints is somewhat skewed resulting in inappropriate or insufficient sequencing of muscle activity around that joint and throughout the kinetic chain. At best, performance will be limited. At worst, you or your clients get injured.
The next phase is to eliminate isolated weaknesses and regain normal joint stability. That’s where the Single-Leg Solution is so valuable. During bilateral exercises, the demands on stabilizing musculature is much less than when performing split stance and single-leg exercises. Therefore, you need to perform a properly sequenced program of exercises that will promote stability in a safe and effective manner.
All the work is done for you. You simply need to follow the programs. Assess and Correct plus the Single-Leg Solution form the foundation that allows you and your clients to train at the highest possible level safely and effectively.
We all know that it’s important to have adequate dorsiflexion.
A lack of dorsiflexion prevents effective squatting, drives feet into pronation, alters pelvic tilt, promotes quad dominance, and a number of adaptations up the kinetic chain.
Ever have an athlete that no matter how hard to you try to impact dorsiflexion, you don’t see the changes in his performance during ground-based activities?
You mobilize his ankle, and his squat doesn’t change. You stretch the calf, and he still has a premature heel lift when he walks. You have him hop up on the exam table, and it looks like he should have enough dorsiflexion as you move the ankle through a full range of motion. You put him back on the ground. No dice.
So what’s the deal? What are you missing?
Let me explain with a little demonstration.
Take your shoes off and stand up…I’ll wait.
Now, keep your knees straight, stay tall, and slowly lean forward until the moment you feel like your heels will come up off the floor and hold that position. Do you feel it?
Do you feel your toes grip the floor? Do you feel the tension move up into your calves?
In an effort to maintain stability, your nervous system turns on your calves and the deep posterior compartment musculature and on up the kinetic chain. Many athletes have the exact same problem.
Your mobilization and stretching may have addressed the physiologic stiffness that would prevent normal ankle mobility, but if your athlete has poor control of his center of gravity, the stiffness will persist to maintain stability. The result is a neurologic barrier to performance and greater risk of injury.
Got an athlete with plantar fasciitis, anterior knee pain, groin pain, piriformis syndrome?
Consider looking at the factors that influence center of gravity and the associated alignment and muscular activation patterns.
Here’s a hint…start from the ground up.
More later.
