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 two): soft tissue work
November 11th, 2009 Comments Off
Tags: corrective · Hip mobility · injury
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 [...]
Tags: corrective · Hip mobility · injury
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 [...]
Tags: corrective · Hip mobility · injury
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 [...]
Tags: corrective · exercise · injury
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 [...]
Tags: corrective · injury · pull up

