Posts in "Articles"
Taylor Lewis: How Training Specialized Athletes Helps Your Everyday Clients
Working with the 1% population is a blessing within a blessing. Taylor Lewis breaks down the key components of specialized training for specific athletes a...
Charlie Weingroff and Mark Cheng: Working the Wrong Joints
What happens when you work the wrong joints? In the process of Hacking the Hinge, Mark Cheng discusses the pitfalls of using the wrong joints to find mobility.
Why is the Neurodevelopmental Sequence Important to Trainers?
The neurodevelopmental sequence is the normal movement progression that infants follow as they grow and develop movement. Here are a few highlights that detail why you should understand...
Gray Cook: Corrective Exercise at The Edge of Ability
Corrective exercise should not be a rehearsal of outputs. Instead, it should represent challenging opportunities to manage mistakes at a fundamental level near the edge of ability. Mana...
Josh Hillis: Three Painless Ways to Lose Weight by Cutting Calories, Not Counting Them
We know that it takes reducing calories to lose weight. In fact, if your only goal is to have the scale change, there is literally nothing that matters as much as calories consumed. The...
Corrective Exercise for Personal Trainers and Coaches
The term corrective exercise broadly refers to movements designed to target a problem seen in a person’s physical movement. In our lives, either through our day-to-day work, unbalance...
Human Anatomy FAQ
There are 206 bones in the human body, and between 640-850 muscles, depending on the source and how that source classifies the muscles. An agreed-upon number does not exist. The vertebr...
Human Movement Terminology Cheatsheet
Expanding on our earlier discussion of human planes of motion, let’s take a look at a few other common movement terms that are a touch out of range of many of us. We’ll keep...
Evan Osar: Low Back Pain – The Myth of The Weak Core – Part 2
In this follow-up article, Evan Osar discusses his preferred methods to develop a more efficient core stabilization strategy for his patients and clients with low back pain, presents ex...
Evan Osar: Low Back Pain – The Myth of The Weak Core – Part 1
It is often believed that structural or mechanical low back pain is related to a weakness within the core. This article discusses the myth of the weak core and introduces the idea that ...
Gray Cook: Movement Literacy
In this short video clip, Gray Cook defines 'movement literacy' and discusses its implications on organism, environment and good coaching.