In this post we look at why The Australian Ballet stopped stretching and what happened to their dancers as a result. If you think of activities that require significant range of motion, ballet has to be close to the top of the list. Ballet dancers…
In this post we discuss how to add resistance training to your off season cycling programme for the best results. Resistance training is now widely recommended to improve performance and reduce injury risk in endurance activities such as cycling and running. As we enter the…
In this post we discuss the challenge of effective communication in exercise and rehab. Have you ever struggled to understand what your trainer or rehab professional is talking about? If you have it’s not surprising and there’s a good reason for it. They’re probably communicating…
In this post I answer the top 10 most frequently asked questions about injury rehab. 1) How long will this take? This is the question that everybody asks and which nobody can honestly answer precisely. There are known healing times for different structures of the…
In this post we look at why online exercise injuries are booming and what you can do to avoid them. According to research by Sport for England, 25% of the U.K. population are now using online exercise services. That compares to only 15% who use…
In this post I discuss why resistance training will change your life and how I came to this conclusion midway through my career. I left university following an exercise science degree and kind of fell into personal training. I’d come from a cycle racing background,…
In this post we look at why subtalar joint motion is critical to walking and running and go through two exercises to help you improve it. In an integrated system, the performance of the whole is only as good as the function of its individual…
In this post we take a deeper look at how Muscle Activation Techniques helped Bryson DeChambeau transform his golf and recover from a back injury. Bryson DeChambeau has undergone a physical transformation over the last few months that’s had a significant impact on his golf…
In this post we take a detailed look at what causes frozen shoulder and the best exercises to help you recover from it as quickly as possible. Frozen shoulder, or adhesive capsulitis as it’s known, is certainly one of those medical phenomena that we don’t…
In this post we take a detailed look at how to train your adductors for both rehab and sports performance. And why the adductors seem to be so undervalued in both. In rehab and exercise more generally, there tends to be a bias towards stretching…
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