By Matthew Ibrahim “My lower back hurts.” How often have you heard someone say that? I’d guess a lot of the time. I would estimate that 95% of this could be fixed if people learned how
Continue readingTwo weeks ago I made a video entitled 5-minute overhead mobility. It’s a compilation of my favorite overhead mobility exercises with an assessment and demonstrations with explanations of each mobilization.
Continue readingWe all know how important it is to keep a neutral spine while deadlifting. There are so many fantastic videos out there showing how not to deadlift. Here’s one of my favorites: http://youtu.be/X4P14V7rqbg I
Continue readingProper squatting forms the basis of any performance system and is essential to meaningful function as an athlete and human. This includes all populations including the elderly (might need to scale though,
Continue readingIf you missed it, in Part 1 we talked all about why your lower back might hurt from doing overhead press. So how do we fix it? 1) Check to see if you’ve got adequate thoracic spine and shoulder
Continue readingIf you guys have been following this site for any length of time you know that I’m a huge fan of cleaning up your technique on all of your lifts. It will do just about everything from making you
Continue readingUpdated November 2017: Pretty much everyone calls “butt” tuck” butt wink now. To start, I wanted to say that I plugged the words “butt tuck” into google to get some good
Continue readingWe’ve all seen it. It starts as a friendly attempt at picking up a heavy weight. It ends in terror, back pain and vertebral discs being shot all over the room. You know what I’m talking
Continue readingThe word “core” is thrown around quite a bit in the fitness and physical therapy world. Rob and I go over the core in depth and how it relates to low back pain. Join us as we battle over
Continue readingThe human body is complex. Assessment, corrective exercise and injury prevention is also tricky. If we’re new to the game, how can we begin to figure out our deficits and address them? If
Continue readingEverybody loves a good lizard crawl. Technique: Get into a pushup position and take your legs out a bit wider then your shoulders and lower yourself a little closer to the floor Focus on keeping your
Continue readingBy: Rob Rowland We have all the heard the statistics on back pain and chances are you have dealt with it yourself. The problem is that with the prevalence of back pain, most people are still clueless
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