Joint Positions are Important for Both Long- and Short-Duration Activities
I wouldn’t take a linebacker and expect him to be a good distance runner. People generally gravitate towards activities they are better at doing. People who like to run long…
Notice the Details
Though systems like the human body are complex, they are still mutable. These systems can indeed experience large effects from small changes. “A butterfly flaps its wings…” Why is movement…
Fixing a Right Hip Shift
Context: Chris has a client whose right butt touches a box first when she squats. It doesn’t happen when she does hip hinging activities. Should you address it? That’s your…
Using Fatigue to Teach the Squat
Context: Cory has a friend who shifts to the right and gets knee pain when he squats. When tired, removing some load keeps the squatter feeling tired, but the load…
High Hip Internal Rotation and Limited External Rotation – What’s going on?
If someone has a wide, flat back, tests with a lot of hip internal rotation and limited external rotation, I would look ABOVE the pelvis. The entire pelvis is likely…
Bill Hartman’s Top X Number of Activities for Increasing Mobility
Usually you have to address respiration because there are position adaptations that change the way a person responds to gravity. Sometimes people respond inappropriately to gravity, and I want to…
Testing Hip Mobility on the Gym Floor
You don’t need table tests to train someone in the gym. You can take a more complex test — like a squat — and use that as your comparator. It…
Determining Optimal Squat or Deadlift Stance
First: there are no rules. You have to determine what you want it to look like. Here is “Cory’s question about heels-elevated squatting” that was referenced in the video. [link]…
Squatting with a Wide Body
Context: this guy has a very wide infrasternal angle, he’s older, and this angle doesn’t change a whole lot with training. Will he have trouble with squatting just because of…
Can Pregnancy Cause Restrictions in Hip Mobility?
Question from Chris Hughen. Context: She has one child. She doesn’t have pain. Her hips look super externally rotated. She recently has a miscarriage. The miscarriage, depending on how far…
Hip Mobility in the Gym
What did we talk about? Here’s a list of the questions from this Q&A: Can Pregnancy Cause Restrictions in Hip Mobility? Progressing from Heels-Elevated Squats Squatting with a Wide Body…
Using Curls to Fix Elbows
Now we get to use curls to fix elbows. How ’bout that? This month, Stephen LaFlamme and I ran through a bunch of physical therapy, orthopedic testing, and advanced functional…
Cutting Biomechanics
Note: This post has a free quiz below! Impromptu IFASTU. Let’s talk about the bootydo [30:30]. This was a fun one. Bill and I got to talking the other day…
The Biomechanics of Performance
First questions to ask yourself What forces are acting? What direction are those forces being applied? How big are those forces? Biomechanics is an essential area of rehab and performance…
Which Book Is Best?
Members can download the notes to get the short version. Questions asked this month (the month of how to learn anatomy, physics, and coaching exercises): Thoughts on the Frans Bosch…