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My Hip Mobility programme

December 9th, 2009 No Comments

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve written 4 articles to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did a little while ago.
At the start, I outlined how I had allowed my desk job to cause my posture to deteriorate such that I developed an overly excessive lumbar lordosis and [...]

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Hip Mobility (part four): strength training

December 2nd, 2009 No Comments

This is the fourth of 4 posts to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did a little while ago.  In this mini-series, I’m going to cover:

Stretching
Soft tissue work
Activation drills
Strength exercises

Strength training for increased hip mobility
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve allowed my posture to deteriorate recently and [...]

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Hip Mobility (Part Three): Activation Drills

November 25th, 2009 1 Comment

This is the third of 4 posts to flesh out the introducing hip mobility and lumbar stability post that I did a little while ago.  In this mini-series, I’m going to cover:

Stretching
Soft tissue work
Activation drills
Strength exercises

Activation drills for increased hip mobility
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve allowed my posture to deteriorate recently and [...]

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Hip mobility (part two): soft tissue work

November 11th, 2009 No Comments

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 posture to deteriorate recently and I [...]

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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 mentioned in my previous post, I’ve [...]

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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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