In the post we discuss why your shoulder hurts when you bench press and what you can do to change it. What’s the number one rule of the bench press? Get the bar to your chest right? This is also probably the number one reason your shoulder is hurting. To check if this is the […]
Training
Thinking about getting stronger?
Thinking about getting stronger? Then you’re already on the way. Take two groups of people and immobilise one of their limbs with a cast. Have one group think about performing movement with the immobilised limb and the other do nothing. At 11 weeks remove the casts from both groups and what do you find? Those […]
Train muscles not motor patterns.
What is a motor pattern? No it’s not a style of children’s wallpaper. Motor patterns are related to the concept that your body has a predictable sequence of muscle activation for a given task. This underpins much of the functional training methodology. You must train the entire movement otherwise there will be no transfer to […]
Don’t stretch it, strengthen it to reduce injury risk.
Yet another study has come to the conclusion that stretching has no effect on reducing injury risk. Researchers in Denmark reviewed 25 trials involving over 26,000 people and covering over 4000 injuries. They found that strength training had the biggest impact on reducing injury risk with the potential to cut sports injuries to less than […]
Muscle Activation Techniques for golf.
In a recent study with amateur golfers, Muscle Activation Techniques was shown to both reduce the player’s scores and their self reported fatigue levels. All 15 golfers in the study said they felt their range of movement improved following the treatments and that they were more stable in their swing. This was proved objectively in […]