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OTP Article Archive

By Contributor, Alphabetical by Last Name

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

Byron Chandler: Periodization

Mark Cheng: Breathing as Fundamental Movement

Mark Cheng: Breathing Drills

Mark Cheng: Cross Crawling

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 at Google

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 Minimums

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

Greg Dea: Wellness Monitoring

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: The Iliacus

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: Behind the Smile

Dave Draper: Bombs Away

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: The Breath

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: Pain Theories

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: Eating Skills

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

Chris Holder: Turning Speed

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: Alignment

Dan John: The Art of Coaching

Dan John: A Quick Chat about Assessments (contributor)

Dan John: After Assessments

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: Do It and Diet

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: Gaps in Training

Dan John: 5 Basic Human Movements

Dan John: Getting Started in Fitness Writing

Dan John: ‘Get Back Up’ Drill for Older Clients

Dan John: Goblet Squat

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: My Gamechangers

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: Shark Habits

Dan John: Six Decades of Competition

Dan John: Strength Coaching Athletes

Dan John: Symmetry Work

Dan John: Three Secrets of Performance

Dan John: Training Economics

Dan John: Training Longevity — Life in the Weight Room

Dan John: Training for Tomorrow

Dan John: Two Basic Problems

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: Hip Anatomy

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

Models of Periodization

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?

Brendon Rearick: Coaching Rules Introduction

Brendon Rearick: Mental Toughness

Mark Reifkind: Body Maintenance — The Power of Routine

Mark Reifkind: Diaphragmatic Breathing

Mark Reifkind: Foam Rolling Pain Points

Mark Reifkind: Lats

Mark Reifkind: Shoulder Mobility

Mark Reifkind: Tissue Quality

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: Fix Function First

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: Hip Motion in Gait

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

Joey Wolfe: Connecting with Players is Coaching to Win

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