Preventing injury in football players is the holy grail. In the first game of the season last weekend Arsenal lost both Aaron Ramsey and Alex Iwobi to non contact injuries which should, in theory, be avoidable. The University of Birmingham and Southhampton Football Club have just released a study which uses GPS technology in an […]
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The benefits of Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT)
An excellent piece on the benefits of Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) from MAT HQ in Denver. In summary. 1) MAT can help explore the contribution muscle weakness is having on your pain. 2) MAT ensures your muscular system is contracting to the best of it’s ability. 3) MAT can increase range of motion without the […]
The number one yoga mistake
I get asked a lot about the value of yoga in terms of rehab and aiding flexibility in general. I also work with a number of practitioners who are usually interested to know how they can improve their delivery to better help their students. Whilst I’m certainly not an expert in yoga, I have studied […]
Exercise is the answer but where to start?
I clearly remember my first personal training client. He was a jovial overweight gentleman who desperately wanted to lose weight to keep up with his new girlfriend who was half his age. My approach, as a former endurance athlete, was to run him on a treadmill progressively further and faster. Whilst he lost weight he […]
Change your life with Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT)
I recently read a great tweet via Paul Ingraham @PainSci pondering the possibility of ‘unfucking yourself’. What if you could hit a button that restored your factory settings and wiped away all the incidents that are to blame for your current physical state? The marathon that ruined your knee, the cabinet that you shouldn’t have […]