What? It’s Thursday! I know, I’m just all over the map with blogging this week. Surgery will do that to ya. Anyway, so there’s numerous articles out there about how to train around injuries (you can always find something to do. No excuses!) We have several on the SAPTstrength site and there’s a few on SGW [...]
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Tadashi wrote a great post last week. If you haven’t read it… you should do so. I wanted to expand a bit on this particular point of his post: Another aspect that all of these athletes have in common is that they were strong before the injury occurred. If you are a healthy competitive athlete, [...]
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This is a two parter blog on how to care for and train the adductors (inner thigh, groin muscles… take you pick of their name). We’ll talk about keeping adductors healthy and happy (and hopefully prevent groin pulls/strains, I’m looking at you soccer players…) today and then in the next installment, we’ll talk about how [...]
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I hope everyone fared hurricane Sandy safely! We’re so thankful that worst of it bypassed the DC area. Thoughts and prayers go out to those in NY and NJ which seemed to have brunt of Sandy’s fury poured out upon them! Secondly, a GINORMOUS congratulations to the following SAPT ladies who made the all-district volleyball [...]
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I’m starting an on-going series of common fixes to common pains that arise during exercises. Most of the time, it’s not the exercise that’s causing pain, it’s the execution that’s the problem *Note* These are general solutions that fit about 90% of the population and for those who don’t have any injury that would cause pain inherently. First up: [...]
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Like many of you, dear readers, I have several exerercises that are on my “Do Not Do” list. This doesn’t mean the exercise is “bad,” it’s just not for you. (in the coaching world we would label you a “contraindicated lifter.” Don’t you feel special?) Anyway, here’s some substitutions for common exercises to remove the “contraindicated” [...]
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Who’s ever tweaked their back? (I expect most of you to raise your hands considering an absurd percentage of Americans have back pain in some form.) While I in no way can tell you why your back hurts, as an experienced back-pain-sufferer, I can offer a couple of things that I’ve found help prevent/remedy acute back [...]
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KIDDING! The only way to “lengthen” your muscles as some women’s magazines claim, is to take Polyjuice potion and become someone else with longer muscles than you. “Long, lean” muscles have more to do with genetics (where the muscles insert on your bones) than what exercise modality you choose. “Toning” really means, bigger muscles with [...]
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“Squats don’t hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.” – Dan John Today we’re going to look at three common mishaps of squatting that I see on almost a daily basis. If you can, film yourself squatting (from the side and from the front) to see if any of these apply to you. [...]
READ MORE »This will sound a little like “What came first? The chicken or the egg?” But, it’s reality: How do you avoid a hamstring injury? Don’t let yourself get a hamstring injury in the first place. Riiiiight. That’s helpful, I’m sure. As it turns out the most significant risk factor for hamstring injury is a previous [...]
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