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Boris Bachmann: Deadlift Stud, Squat Dud
Boris Bachmann: Getting Under the Bar — Squat Stretches and Drills
Stacy Barrows: Foam Roller History and Practical Use
Eric Beard: Global vs Local Musculature
Eric Beard: Lumbar and Thoracic Spine Regions
Eric Beard: Quick Breathing Assessment
Eric Beard: Shoulder Joint Impingement
Eric Beard: Spine Mobility vs Stability
Eric Beard: Standing Postural Assessment
Eric Beard: The Kinetic Chain Principle
Eric Beard: Thoracic Spine Disassociation
Eric Beard: Thoracic Spine Impairment and Dysfunction
John Berardi: The Coaching Compliance Solution
Mike Boyle: How to Build a Successful Training Business
Mike Boyle: It’s Not the Program; It’s the Coaching
Mike Boyle: Joint-by-Joint Approach
Mike Boyle: Misunderstanding Aerobic Training
Mike Boyle: Rotational Core Training
Mike Boyle: Three Lessons I Learned from Coaching Kids
Mike Boyle: Understanding and Training Hip Flexion
Lee Burton: Active Straight Leg Raise — Corrective or Conditioning?
Lee Burton: Balance and Stability for Older Clients
Lee Burton: Building on the FMS Performance Pyramid
Lee Burton: Corrective Strategies
Lee Burton: Programming Needs of a High School Football Player
Lee Burton: The FMS is the Entry Point
Lee Burton: The History of the Functional Movement Screen – It’s Conception and Misconceptions
Lee Burton: The Importance of Medical History
Byron Chandler: Developing Chinning Ability
Mark Cheng: Breathing as Fundamental Movement
Mark Cheng: Ground Work Progressions—Crawling and Cross Crawling
Mark Cheng: Cues and Tips for Sphinx Position Drills
Mark Cheng: Emotional Attachments – Exercise, Identity and Addiction
Mark Cheng: Half-kneeling Rotation
Mark Cheng: Movement is Just Like Money
Mark Cheng: Movement Starts with Breathing
Mark Cheng: Prehab—Rehab for Posture
Mark Cheng: Rob the Forefoot Hip Hinge Drill
Mark Cheng: Tall-Kneeling Basics
Mark Cheng, Steve Middleton: Why Sitting Is Bad for You (and What to Do about It) (contributors)
Eric Chessen: Autism Fitness for Adults
Eric Chessen: Training Clients with Autism
Chip Conrad: Goal Setting, Level One
Chip Conrad: Pushup and Plank Stability
Gray Cook Answers Your Turkish Getup Questions
Gray Cook: Breathing Assessment
Gray Cook: Chop and Lift Basics
Gray Cook: Coddled Conditioning
Gray Cook: Core Stability, Compensation and Breathing
Gray Cook: Crossing the Midline
Gray Cook: Don’t Rush the Movement Learning Process
Gray Cook: Dysfunction Red Flags
Gray Cook: Feeling Awkward, Intimidated & Disconnected in the Deep Squat
Gray Cook: Functional Exercise vs Corrective Exercise
Gray Cook: Function or Dysfunction
Gray Cook: Get The Toe Touch Before You Teach The Deadlift
Gray Cook: How to Use the FMS in Groups
Gray Cook: The Lack of Movement Health Requires Rehabilitation
Gray Cook: Loaded Carries (with Dan John)
Gray Cook: Motor Control and Stability and Prime Mover Training
Gray Cook: Movement and Environment
Gray Cook: Movement Habits and Repatterning
Gray Cook: Movement Principles
Gray Cook: Movement Screening and Exercise Prescriptions
Gray Cook: Reflections on Assessing Movement
Gray Cook: Reviewing the FMS Scoring System
Gray Cook: Rolling Isn’t Magic
Gray Cook: Self-Limiting Exercise and The Movement Principles
Gray Cook: Sequence of Core Firing
Gray Cook: Stability vs Mobility
Gray Cook & Erwan Le Corre: The Benefits of Self-Limiting Exercise
Gray Cook & Erwan Le Corre: What’s important in movement?
Gray Cook: There Are Things You Shouldn’t Coach
Gray Cook: Touch Your Toes with This Toe Touch Progression
Gray Cook: Training Wheels Don’t Teach Balance
Gray Cook & Craig Liebenson: Upper and Lower-Crossed Syndromes in Athletes
Gray Cook: What I Look for in a Functional Movement Screen Score
Gray Cook: What are Progressions?
Gray Cook: Work Capacity and Motor Control
Gray Cook: Working on Breathing in Patterns
Gray Cook and Dan John: Working in the Tall-Kneeling Position
Corrective Exercise Tips for Personal Trainers and Coaches
Alwyn Cosgrove: Basic Human Movements and Program Design
Alwyn Cosgrove: The FMS and Group Settings
Alwyn Cosgrove: Getting Stability from Glute Firing
Alwyn Cosgrove: How to Use the FMS in Groups
Alwyn Cosgrove: Kneeling Exercise Choices for Glute Firing
Alwyn Cosgrove: The Program Is Your Responsibility
Zac Cupples: Continuing Education—The Complete Guide to Mastery
Greg Dea and Rod Harris: Bench Press Movement Mistakes
Greg Dea: Bulletproofing The Volleyball Knee
Greg Dea: Bulletproofing the Volleyball Shoulder
Greg Dea and Rod Harris: Core Stability and Core Strength Are Not the Same
Greg Dea and Mitch Rowe: The 3-Speed Approach to Faster Running and Better Health
Greg Dea and Mitch Rowe: From the Couch of 1 Mile or 1km
Greg Dea: Sore Achilles? Reset First
Greg Dea: Increasing Achilles Load Tolerance, The Rebuild (Part 2)
Greg Dea: Feedback and Cueing – Making Them Work Together
Greg Dea: Feedback and Cueing – Part 2 – Reliable Strategies
Greg Dea: Motor Control – Complex to Simple
Greg Dea: Questioning the Plank
Greg Dea: The Role of Mobility Interventions in Handling Chronic Stress
Greg Dea and Cameron Elliott: The Three Main Components of Every Athletic Endeavor
Joe DiStefano: Training for Obstacle Course Racing
Kathy Dooley: Functional Anatomy for All Disciplines
Kathy Dooley: Hip Compression and and Decompression
Kathy Dooley: Hip Compression in the Lunge
Kathy Dooley: Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Core Muscles
Kathy Dooley: Restoring Authentic Breathing and Core Control
Kathy Dooley: You Can Learn Anatomy
Robert Dos Remedios: Building Better Athletes with Optimal Program Design
Dave Draper: Musclebuilding is as Old as the Hills
Dave Draper: The Dungeon, 1963
Dave Draper: Iron History (contributor)
Sophia McDermott Drysdale: 6 Reasons Why ALL Women Should Perform Resistance Training
Sophia McDermott Drysdale: A Trainer’s Guide to Pregnant Clients
Sophia McDermott Drysdale: A Trainer’s Guide to Pregnant Clients, Part II – Exercises to Avoid
Sophia McDermott Drysdale: Training Pregnant Clients, Part III – Beneficial Exercises
Cameron Elliott and Greg Dea: The Three Main Components of Every Athletic Endeavor
Sue Falsone: Cervical Spine and Shoulder Movement
Sue Falsone: Cervical Thoracic Anatomy
Sue Falsone: Cervical Thoracic Junction Yoga Mobility Drill
Sue Falsone: External Shoulder Rotation Drill
Sue Falsone: The Normal Shoulder Joint
Sue Falsone: Problems at the Head, Neck, Shoulders and Torso
Sue Falsone: Chapter One: Introducing the Book’s Content
Sue Falsone: Scapular Stabilizers
Sue Falsone: Segments of The Organizational System
Sue Falsone: Segments of The Organizational System Part 2 – Performance
Sue Falsone: Shoulder Rotation Drills
Sue Falsone: Scapula, Shoulder and Cervical Thoracic Junction Drill
Sue Falsone: Using Periodization in Rehab
Sue Falsone and Gray Cook: What is Functional Training?
Sue Falsone: What to Look for Before Shoulder Stretching
Sue Falsone: Yoga for Strength
Sue Falsone: Becoming the First Female Head Athletic Trainer in the MLB (contributor)
Sue Falsone: Looking after the Shoulder and Shoulder Injuries (contributor)
Georgie Fear & K. Aleisha Fetters: Running from Emotions
Georgie Fear & K. Aleisha Fetters: Internalized Smallness
Georgie Fear & K. Aleisha Fetters: Running on Less and Why Weight “Loss” Doesn’t Work
Wil Fleming: Weightlifting Technique is Not Complicated
Anna Folckomer: Internal Abdominal Oblique Muscle and Stability
Anna Folckomer: Winged Scapula and the Serratus
Brian Friedman: Gain Awesome Kettlebell Technique with Yoga
Douglas Graham: Fasting Explained – A Guide for Trainers
Brian Gwaltney: Don’t Get Used to Extreme
Brian Gwaltney: Perspective and Standards — You Don’t Need More Than An “F”
Brian Gwaltney: The Tangential Model of Periodization
Jeremy Hall: The Power of Mentorship
Jeremy Hall: Scaling The System to Work for You
Jeremy Hall and Al Miller: Scaling The System – Part 2
Jeremy Hall and Al Miller: Scaling The System – Part 3
Jeremy Hall and Rob Panariello: The System and the Rehab/Performance Continuum
Marc Halpern: A Nutrition Plan that Works
Marc Halpern: Better Food Choices
Todd Hargrove: Human Body Maps
Rod Harris: When Competent Trumps Expert
Rod Harris and Greg Dea: Core Stability and Core Strength Are Not the Same
Josh Hillis: How Food Works in Fat Loss
Josh Hillis: How to Gauge Weight Loss Progress
Josh Hillis: Perfectionism, Excellence, Self-Kindness and Self-Compassion
Josh Hillis: The Fat Loss Happens on Monday Coaching System
Josh Hillis: The Ultimate Guide to Losing Fat (and Keeping it off for Good) [Infographic]
Josh Hillis: Three Painless Ways to Lose Weight by Cutting Calories, Not Counting Them
Chris Holder: Achieving Training Goals — The Devil is in the Details
Chris Holder: An Argument for Early Specialization in Sports
Chris Holder: Are We Lifting the Athleticism Out of Our Athletes?
Chris Holder: The Art of Communication (for Coaching and Beyond)
Chris Holder: Breaking Down Coaching Instruction
Chris Holder: Coaching with Confidence to Share Knowledge and Experience
Chris Holder: Conditioning for Competition—More Than Just Running
Chris Holder: A Fat Guy’s Experience on the Ketogenic Diet
Chris Holder: Mentoring Young Coaches
Chris Holder: Qigong for Recovery and Health
Chris Holder: Training Failure – When to Push Young Athletes and When to Wait
Joel Jamieson: Building the Performance Model
Joel Jamieson: How to Write a World-Class Conditioning Program in 15 Minutes or Less
Joel Jamieson: Using Heart Rate Variability
Dan John: 30/30 for 30 Programming Q & A
Dan John: A Quick Chat about Assessments (contributor)
Dan John—After the Peak is the Cliff
Dan John: Assessments for “Everybody Else”
Dan John: Balance = Work/Rest/Play/Pray
Dan John: The Big Picture View of Coaching
Dan John: Can You Go Chapter One Excerpt
Dan John: Earning the Next Level —Coach Robert Lualhati and Skyline College
Dan John: Exercise Program Design Fundamentals, Part One (contributor)
Dan John: Exercise Program Design Fundamentals, Part Two (contributor)
Dan John: Free First Chapter of Now What
Dan John’s Four Quadrants [Infographic]
Dan John’s Four Quadrants (book excerpt)
Dan John: Four Ways to Fire Up Work Capacity
Dan John: 5 Basic Human Movements
Dan John: Getting Started in Fitness Writing
Dan John: ‘Get Back Up’ Drill for Older Clients
Dan John: The Hip Movement Continuum
Dan John: I’m The Coach and I’m Always Right
Dan John: Is Your Athlete Up to The Standards?
Dan John: Key Points in Goal Setting
Dan John: Knowing What to Measure Simplifies Life
Dan John: Loaded Carries (with Gray Cook)
Dan John: Mass Made Simple Toolkit
Dan John: Now What? Introduction
Dan John: The Now What? Matrix
Dan John: Older Clients and Falls
Dan John: Old Drills Reborn—Training Programs for “Everybody Else”
Dan John: Olympic Lifting—Etching vs Reaction
Dan John: Principles of Training for the RKC Preparation Program
Dan John: Programming Checklists & Calendars
Dan John: Ramping Up — Training Rules for the Big Push
Dan John: Secrets of the Toolkit
Dan John: Six Decades of Competition
Dan John: Strength Coaching Athletes
Dan John: Three Secrets of Performance
Dan John: Training Longevity — Life in the Weight Room
Dan John: Training for Tomorrow
Dan John: What Makes an Athlete Elite?
Brett Jones: Push Press for Power
Ron Jones: Keeping Your Feet Healthy (contributor)
Stella Juarez: Troubleshooting Your Protein Shake
Vik Khanna and Chad Estes: Movement as Health: Are You Training to the Razor’s Edge?
Liz Koch: Over-Dominant Quads and the Psoas
Erwan Le Corre & Gray Cook: Log Squats vs Weight Room Squats
Taylor Lewis: Communication — The Missing Key Between Performance and Rehab
Taylor Lewis: How Training Specialized Athletes Helps Your Everyday Clients
Taylor Lewis: Ribs—The Underdog in Thoracic Mobility
Taylor Lewis: Rib Articulation Significance in Thoracic Spine Mobility
Taylor Lewis: Time Under Tension
Craig Liebenson: Assessment, Analyzation and Prioritization
Craig Liebenson: Guarding after Injury
Craig Liebenson: Restoring Hip Extension
Craig Liebenson & Gray Cook: Upper and Lower-Crossed Syndromes in Athletes
Robert Linkul: The Phobias of Training Older Adults
Robert Linkul: Proper Transfers for Older Adults
Robert Linkul: Three Things I Learned Training Older Adults
Robert Linkul: Why Do We Fight Referrals?
Guy Massi: Differentiated Instruction, Learning Styles and Learning Disorders
Guy Massi: Oscillation, Amplitude and Dynamic Stability Training
Guy Massi: Stay General or Go Specific When Training Young Athletes?
Guy Massi: Strength and Conditioning Coaches – Believe in Your Abilities and Work around Reality
Vince McConnell: The Best Damn Training Program, Period (Relatively Speaking)
Vince McConnell: Training at 50 (or 20) and Beyond
Stuart McGill: Breathing Assessment
Stuart McGill: Can Movement Quality Predict Future Injuries
Stuart McGill: Creating Strong Default Patterns
Stuart McGill: Scientific Odds Ratios and Injury
Stuart McGill: Unilateral Exercises and Back Pain
Stuart McGill: Taking Charge of Back Pain—Empowering Self-Advocacy
Stuart McGill: Testing Athletes with Jumps
Lorimer Moseley: How to Explain Pain
Lorimer Moseley: Learning from Phantom Pain
Lorimer Moseley: Pain and the Placebo Effect
Lorimer Moseley: Pain is an Emergent Experience
Lorimer Moseley: Pain, Stimulus and Meaning
Lorimer Moseley: Perception and Pain
Evan Osar: Corrective Exercise Essentials
Evan Osar: Developing and Maintaining Hip Mobility
Evan Osar: Forward Shoulder Posture and Scapular Retraction Exercises
Evan Osar: Forward Shoulder Posture and Scapular Retraction Exercises, Part II
Evan Osar: Forward Shoulder Posture and Scapular Retraction Exercises, Part III
Evan Osar: Low Back Pain – The Myth of The Weak Core – Part 1
Evan Osar: Low Back Pain – The Myth of The Weak Core – Part 2
Johnny Parker, Al Miller, Rob Panariello, Jeremy Hall: Frequency of Training
Johnny Parker, Al Miller, Rob Panariello, Jeremy Hall: Training Cycle Principles
Glenn Pendlay: Common Weightlifting Mistakes
Glenn Pendlay: Consistency in Olympic Lifting
Glenn Pendlay: Do You Need to Stomp in Weightlifting?
Glenn Pendlay: Hand Position for the Snatch
Glenn Pendlay: Olympic Lifts from the Top Down
Glenn Pendlay: Olympic Weightlifting Tips for Beginners
Glenn Pendlay: Programming for Older Lifters
Glenn Pendlay: Strength Training is a Process, Not an Event
Glenn Pendlay: Structuring The Training Week
Glenn Pendlay: The Texas Method
Glenn Pendlay: The Training Log
Thomas Plummer: Breaking the Hourly Rate Addiction
Thomas Plummer: Does Your Training Business have an Exit Plan?
Thomas Plummer: The Evolution of a Trainer
Thomas Plummer: Fitness Professionals Only Have Two Speeds
Thomas Plummer: The Immutable Laws of Money and Coaching
Thomas Plummer: The Immutable Laws of Money and Coaching, Part 2
Thomas Plummer: It Comes Down to Program Design
Thomas Plummer: Let’s Make a Good Living
Thomas Plummer: Please, Stop Obsessing
Thomas Plummer Sample PDF of Thom Plummer’s The Soul of a Trainer
Thomas Plummer: The Fitness Business
Thomas Plummer: The Future of The Fitness Business
Mike Prevost: Heart Rate Reserve – Measuring Cardiovascular Fitness Improvement
Mike Prevost: Protein Needs and Muscle Hypertrophy
Mike Prevost: Resistance Training Repetition Schemes and Their Applications
Mike Prevost: Ruck Training Programs – PART 1
Mike Prevost: Ruck Training Programs – PART 2
Andrew Read: What’s The Opposite of the Get Up?
Mark Reifkind: Body Maintenance — The Power of Routine
Mark Reifkind: Diaphragmatic Breathing
Mark Reifkind: Foam Rolling Pain Points
Mark Reifkind: Shoulder Mobility
Tracy Reifkind: Kettlebell Progressions – The Roundabout
Tracy Reifkind: The Transformative Power of the Kettlebell Swing
Anthony Renna: The John Berardi Interview
Anthony Renna: Introduction to Be Like the Best
Robb Rogers: Regeneration Strategies
Greg Rose: FMS Scores in Elite Athletes
Greg Rose: Trunk Stability in Golf and MMA
Marcus Santer: Helping Your 40-Plus Client Age Successfully
Jerry Scarlato: Fitness Marketing – Three Priorities for Trainers
Maggie Selzer & Garrett Bullock: What is Motor Control?
Mark Snow: Avoiding The Pitfalls of Group Training Using The FMS (contributor)
Mark Snow: Using the FMS in a Group Fitness or Bootcamp Class
Emily Splichal: Choosing The Right Footwear for Fitness and Performance (contributor)
Emily Splichal: How Tuned In is Your Nervous System? Advances in Barefoot Science
Emily Splichal: Small Nerve Stimulation – The Future of Proprioception Training
Emily Splichal: Time to Stabilization and Athlete Injury Risk
Emily Splichal: Understanding Impact Forces (contributor)
Emily Splichal: Walking – From Primal to Bipedal
Matt Swift: Training Goals – Ask the Why before the What
Jeffrey Tucker: Treating and Preventing Knee Pain and Knee Injuries (contributor)
Patrick Ward: Enhancing the Physiological Buffer Zone
Patrick Ward: My Training Philosophy
David Weck: Enhancing the Core of Athletic Movement
Charlie Weingroff: Core and Diaphragm
Charlie Weingroff: Corrective Exercise for the Movement Professional
Charlie Weingroff & Mark Cheng: Hacking the Hinge, an Interview
Charlie Weingroff: High Threshold Strategy
Charlie Weingroff: Hip Hinge Biomechanics
Charlie Weingroff: The Hip Hinge from the Neuromuscular Perspective
Charlie Weingroff: Janda’s Upper and Lower Crossed Syndromes
Charlie Weingroff: The Joint-by-Joint Approach to Training
Charlie Weingroff: Reactive Neuromuscular Training for the Deep Squat
Charlie Weingroff: Rolling Patterns for Rotary Stability
Charlie Weingroff and Mark Cheng: Touch the Wall Drill
Charlie Weingroff and Mark Cheng: Working the Wrong Joints
Dave Whitley: The Art of Perfect Practice
Dave Whitley: Kettlebell Wrist Position and Grip
Nick Winkelman: Coaching Movements and Skills with Nick Winkelman (contributor)
Adam Wolf: Integrated Motion and the Frontal Plane Lunge
Adam Wolf: Neurological Changes vs. Structural Changes – Hardware or Software
Adam Wolf: Shoulder Impingement and Humeral Head Positioning
Chuck Wolf: Big Movement Rocks
Chuck Wolf: Blending Traditional Training with Functional, Integrated Training
Chuck Wolf: Discovering the “Whys” of Injury
Chuck Wolf: Insights into the Foot
Chuck Wolf: Muscle Energy Techniques
Chuck Wolf: Sample PDF of Insights into Functional Training
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