Now that we’ve busted through the meat-and-potatoes of Healthy Knee MUST’s with numbers 1-4, it’s time to begin talking about the more subtle details in this recipe for healthy knee success. HIP MOBILITY is up first. What is it? Hip mobility is what I’ll call functional flexibility, for lack of a better term. Basically, it [...]
READ MORE »The next absolute MUST is #4: Single-Leg Training! This is pretty cut-and-dry, so I’m going to present it that way. Why you need Single-Leg work in your life: Address and even-out side-to-side strength and mobility differences that exist (asymmetry). Bilateral movements will often allow muscle imbalances to thrive. It’s only natural that the stronger, more [...]
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I think it’s only appropriate that the very first post on a site dedicated to female athletes should cover knee health: Non-contact knee injury is quickly becoming – what I would call – an epidemic. Conservatively, I would estimate that 1 in every 4 or 5 female Division 1 athletes I work with have torn [...]
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