EXERCISE OF THE WEEK
The exercise of the week comes from Sean Cochran and is a Thoracic Spine Mobility exercise with a foam roll plus a Lat stretch with a fitball.
The exercise of the week comes from Sean Cochran and is a Thoracic Spine Mobility exercise with a foam roll plus a Lat stretch with a fitball.
Not an exercise of the week this week but a Public Service Announcement about Flip Flops from Kelly Starrett.
Kelly Starrett shows us how we can care for a disk issue by ensuring proper hip mobility and hamstring length.
This week we have a short golf warm up routine from coach Jason Glass a golf fitness expert.
If you wait a short time post video Jason goes through a full dynamic game day warm up.
This week we have a video from Stack Elite Performance featuring Mike Boyle utilizing the goblet squat to improve back squat.
Here is an interesting video presentation by Dr. Sarah Hallberg at the TEDx Talks on Reversing Type 2 Diabetes.
Here is a core exercise for golf from Sean Cochran at the Titleist Performance Institute.
This week we have a video from Kelly Starrett helping to decrease tension in tight hips. This is a great series of band tensioned positions that allow us to get deeper into the movements. Please note that your hips should be relatively healthy prior to utilizing this type of mobility exercise. Someone with a hip replacement of any kind must consult with their physiotherapist, doctor, surgeon prior to using.
Exos (Athletes Performance) has a great video showing 7 ways to perform a glute bridge.
Mike Boyle at Stack.com shows us some progressions for the pull up/chin up exercise.
The body is designed to move and therefore prolonged periods of sitting reduce the bodies ability to function at optimal. Here is a short video describing the negative effects long periods of sitting have on the body.
Here is a short video showing a very simple way to help release the tight tissues of the piriformis and glute. The ball used in the video is very hard and is not suggested for people who have never performed any self-massage prior. I would recommend using a mini soccer or basketball were the amount of inflation and therefore pressure can be controlled. Also note that breathing is a very important component to success when using self-massage. You must be able to breath relaxed or the tissues will not respond in the fashion we would like. You may also find that the area is just to painful to put any pressure on…start by working with the tissues that are not painful and work toward the more painful areas…again remembering to breath!!!
Kelly Starrett works with an athlete from Mike Boyle Strength and conditioning on ankle mobility. They are showing a more advanced level of a great ankle mobility sequence. If you are having ankle mobility issues and feel this is a little too advanced there are a number of mobility exercises we can add prior to this sequence.
This week the exercise of the week is the Bretttzel (often we call this the Pretzel). Grey Cook of FMS does a great explanation of both the Brettzel and the Brettzel 2.0.
Eric Cressey looks at the combination of mobility and breathing pattern and gives a couple of great positions to increase both.
If you take the time to listen as you are trying you will learn more about creating great posture.
This week Nick Winkelman of EXOS (formerly Athletes Performance) takes us through the worlds greatest stretch.