Mobility
Improve your squat, attack the adductors
When you are planning your pre/post training regime, what are the big targets on your check list? The must do areas that you would be negligent to leave out? Hip mobility; quads, hamstrings, glutes? Some thoracic and shoulder mobility maybe? Often the forgotten cousin of the lower limb (with the quads and hamstrings getting all…
See MoreWhat is ‘Mostability’? What do I NEED to know about it?
By Glenn Stevens, Chiropractor When we look at the joints in the body and the way in which they are supposed to function, we begin to see a pattern. Mike Boyle and Gray Cook (if you aren’t familiar with them I suggest you check our their books) hit the hammer on the head when they…
See MoreTo stabilise or to mobilise? That is the question.
Mobility is very in vogue at the moment, especially in the CrossFit community. Kelly Starrett and his mobilitywod blog has seen an explosion of mobilisation/stretch techniques being used by the masses to improve their position and movement efficiency during training and competing. I absolutely love the mobilitywod resource; Kelly is a very smart man who…
See MoreTight hamstrings?? Don’t blame the victim.
The poor old hamstrings get a bad wrap. I would hazard a guess that around 80% of new patients that come to the clinic claim to have tight hamstrings. The story usually goes something like this: “I’ve always had tight hamstrings, ever since I was in high school, no matter how much I stretched them…
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