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Hip mobility (part two): soft tissue work

November 11th, 2009 Comments Off

This is the second of 4 posts to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did last week.  In this mini-series, I’m going to cover: Stretching Soft tissue work Activation drills Strength exercises Soft tissue work for increased hip mobility As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve allowed my [...]

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Hip mobility (part one): stretching

November 10th, 2009 1 Comment

This is the first of 4 posts to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did last week.  In this mini-series, I’m going to cover several techniques to improve hip mobilty and lumbar stability, including: Stretching Soft tissue work Activation drills Strength exercises Stretching for increased hip mobility As I [...]

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Introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability

November 3rd, 2009 10 Comments

Recently, I touched on the dangers of sitting typing at a keyboard all day and how it can cause shoulder problems.  I explained how the hunchback you get from typing with bad posture can lead to shoulder impingements because the space in the joint is reduced in size.  The hunchback is called “thoracic kyphosis” and [...]

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Top 10 T-Nation Corrective Exercise Articles

November 2nd, 2009 Comments Off

There’s a “back-to-bodybuilding” wind blowing at T-Nation at the moment, which is probably timely.  It’s high time that we had some guidance from the big guys on how they got big.  Otherwise, how would anyone know?  Before that, though, there was a great run of corrective exercise articles, most of which were written by two [...]

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How to keep your shoulders injury free for pull ups (part two)

October 28th, 2009 Comments Off

I had some good feedback regarding my article about what to do if your shoulder hurts doing pull ups.  I hadn’t realised that there were quite so many people who were experiencing that problem.  So I’ve put together a two-part article with a bit more detail about the exact protocol I carry out in order [...]

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