• How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body – New York Times

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Thoughts

• So What Do You Think About Yoga – A previous post of mine

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Possible Solutions

• FMS Yoga Solutions – Another previous post of mine

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The Video

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I sincerely do my best to find the right match but I will admit that it really takes a lot for me to trust a fitness professional with my patients.

The main reason for this? Continuing education and regard for movement quality.

So how, you ask, might you get on my referral list?

Well first and foremost, you need to have great communication skills and excellent client rapport. Most trainers have this and I commend you for it.

Secondly, you have to be good. Certifications mean little if a sound method to your system is lacking.

Finally, it is very important to be up to date with contemporary corrective exercise and post-rehabilitation principles. So for those of you in Alberta, let alone the Greater Edmonton area, here are a few must attend continuing education workshops.

• Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance with Dr. Stu McGill
• Functional Movement Screen Home Study Course
• Training = Rehab, Rehab = Training with Dr. Charlie Weingroff

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www.achieveperformance.net

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50 Fitness “Things”

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1. Squat (often)
2. Eat meat, fish, fruit and veggies most of the time
3. Fish oil is your friend
4. Crawling makes you more athletic and smarter
5. Floss everyday
6. Cardio is overrated
7. Strengthen your feet they are your foundation
8. Strength training does everything
9. Cardio: try 5min of walking lunges
10. Throw medicine Balls
11. A strong grip could save your life
12. Learn to skip
13. Perfect Knee push-ups are better than crappy regular push-ups
14. Olympic lifting is worth learning
15. sprint
16. cereal is not breakfast
17. learn to pick heavy things up off the floor
18. drink water
19. Pull-ups are hard but worth it
20. Jumping gives you legs
21. carry heavy things
22. get strong in the stretch
23. hang from a heavy pullup bar for as long as possible
24. eggs are not bad for you
25. Pizza is not a vegetable
26. stand up every 20 min
27. abs come from eating well not situps
28. elipticals, bikes, treadmills and machines makes things easier not harder
29. Go for walks outside all year around
30. Dumbbells are smart
31. Move or die
32. Run up hills
33. More than one way to get strong
34. warming up means moving not stretching
35. your core is attached to everything else
36. the best core exercise is training your whole body
37. Take the stairs not the elevator
38. Calisthenics
39. Bread is bad
40. Eat broccoli and Blue berries
41. no such thing as upper body day or lower body day only total body day
42. P.M.A.
43. Physical Education is important
44. Olive oil
45. Sandbags
46. No one ever drowned in sweat
47. Consistency, effort and single minded purpose
48. Play
49. Sleds are made to be pushed
50. The longer you are sitting down the harder you must train standing up

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Muscle Imbalances Revealed – Upper Body

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Last year, you may have read several of my reviews on Muscle Imbalances Revealed – Lower Body, a dvd package put together by some of the top experts in the fitness industry. Well this year, I’ve had the privilege to contribute to the newest version of this product, Muscle Imbalances Revealed – Upper Body. Together with Rick Kaselj, Tony Gentilcore and Dean Somerset, we have essentially put together everything – well not everything but a whole whack-load of information – you need to know about the core, thoracic spine, shoulder, neck and arm. But for those of you really interested in what I had to say, well you probably won’t be surprised. So let me give you a quick run down:

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“Respiratory Control: Linking breathing with rehabilitation & training” 

This was my main presentation where I talked about the following:

• Nailing down your mobility and stability exercises with breathing
• “Money moves” for improved breathing
• The Stability-Motor Control Continuum
• Assessment techniques
• How to integrate breathing into movement

“Understanding Soft Tissue Management: Choosing the right tool”

This shorter presentation essentially discusses:

• The mechanism behind soft tissue injuries
• The 3 Phases of Healing
• Who’s who soft tissue world
• The “integr8r”
• The role of the Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization in tissue recovery
• The most effective ways to foam roll the upper body

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But enough about me, what you really need to see is what the other guys had to say in Muscle Imbalances Revealed – Upper Body! Here are short clips from each of “the other guys’” presentations.

“Corrective Exercise Strategies for Athletes (and Meatheads, too)” with Tony Gentilcore

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“Myofascial Training for the Upper Body” with Dean Somerset

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“Unraveling Muscle Imbalances in the Shoulder” with Rick Kaselj

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Now I’m really excited about what we’ve put together. I truly think that regardless of whether you’re a manual & rehabilitation therapist, fitness professional, or just someone who loves to train, that you’ll benefit greatly from this package. In fact, I actually think that your friends and colleagues will benefit as well (so please spread the word)!  And the best part about it? You don’t have to spend your spouse’s hard earned money like I do and fly all over to get your con ed on. In fact, the cost is only $77.

Anyway…

-> -> HERE’S THE LINK <- <-

…and thank you in advance for your continued support!

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John D’Amico provided us with his summary on strengthcoach.com:

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I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank Chris Poirier and his staff at Perform Better for putting on one of the best conferences I have been to in years.

The team format of the conference allowed for great interaction between speakers and participants alike.

The conference topic “The Future” was terrific. Each speaker from Coach Boyle to John Berardi to Alwyn Cosgrove brought their A game to give us an idea where Strength and Conditioning, Fitness and Nutrition are heading in the next 10 years.

Some big picture take aways:

1. From programming to marketing, technology is and will grow as an integral part of your business.

2. Under no circumstance does the use of technology or electronic media come close to the importance of the 10 year, 10,000 hour rule. In other words you have to pay all the tolls on the turnpike to greatness.

3. Smaller is the wave in fitness. The day of the big box gym is over.

4. When opposing points of view are publically addressed the ensuing dialogue helps us assess the best path to take.

5. We work in an unusual business. What I mean is that by sharing ideas and information instead of hoarding make us all that much richer. Strength and Conditioning is not Apple vs Microsoft.

6. Succesful businesses will develop not just a destination for their clients but a culture that sustains the client.

7. Kids and Seniors are the wave of the future in fitness.

8. Plan to attend the next Meeting Of The Minds.

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And Jason Glass provided a nice write up on his site as well.

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Click on this image to read his summary

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If you were there and are willing to share your thoughts, make sure you let me know in the comments section below.

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Here’s what he had to say:

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Now because I’m a huge fan of “training the brain”, I decided to look a little deeper. I feel that I have a good understanding of the work of Moseley, Cook, and Kolar but this is a prime example of not knowing what I didn’t know.

Here’s a closer look at Brain Highways.

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Well now I know what I don’t know so it’s time for me to get after it.

Upon initial glance, this particular system and program seems to be relevant to anyone from health care professionals, to athletic development personnel, to teachers, and even to parents. I’m certainly going to put one foot in this door to take a sniff but hopefully, it’s aroma will be so pleasant that I’ll just have to dive in.

And once I do, I’ll be sure to give you my thoughts.

In the meantime, check out their blog. There are plenty of great reads!

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Train the Brain

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*note: the link to strength coach is of the affiliate variety for the sole purpose of funding my continuing education endeavors.

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Why you might be the reason your child may be inactive – Tralee Pearce

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“To Crunch or Not to Crunch”

No if you spend any time on the internet, you’ll know that this paper has been widely discussed. From Mike Robertson’s forum to T-Nation to Strength Coach.

Now I recently shared my two cents on core training through a webinar on Strength and Conditioning Webinars and Sports Rehab Expert but the above specifically discussed crunches.

Naturally, Dr. Stuart McGill recently had a few words to say so may I direct you to Dr. Snell’s awesome site, myrehabexercise.com. And while you’re at it, make sure you sign up for the site and use the referral code - promo46034. Click here for more information why.

Please note that the strength coach, sports rehab expert and strength and conditioning webinars links are of the affiliate variety.

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July 22 – 23, 2011

Click here to register.

For more information on the Functional Movement Screen, go to www.functionalmovement.com

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Study Title: The Lumbar and Sacrum Movement Pattern During the Back Squat Exercise

Authors: MR McKean, PK Dunn & BJ Burkett

Journal: Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research

Date: October 2010

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Summary:

• Here is a recent article that takes a deeper look at the obvious. McKean and colleagues utilized thirty upper year personal training students and personal trainers to examine 1) the timing and range of movement of the lumbar and sacral regions and 2) the influence of stance width, gender, and ascent / descent phases during the back squat exercise. Incorporating no load and 1.5 x body weight loaded trials, measurements from 3-D tracking devices placed on the above regions were evaluated for maximum lumbar and sacrum angles, the time at maximum lumbar and angles, maximum lumbar flexion angles, and the time at maximum lumbar flexion angles. Unsurprisingly, it was revealed that both men and women achieved a deeper squat position with wider stance (twice ASIS width) versus narrow stance (equal to ASIS width) positions. For those interested in the technical rationale, the reasoning behind this was lower maximum lumbar, sacrum and lumbar flexion angles leading to the ability to maintain more upright lumbar spine positions. Men and women, however, differed in movements and timing of maximums where men achieved maximum sacral angles sooner for both the ascent and descent phases of the squat in comparison with women who achieved earlier maximum lumbar angles in both phases. As a result, this modification in sacrum position and timing in men appears to allow them to accommodate for the known gender differences in pelvic girdle morphology. From a safety perspective, the above differences between the narrow and wider stance positions allow the lumbar spine to maintain a more upright position decreasing the load on the posterior structures of the spine.  That said, kyphosis of the lumbar spine does occur during the deep squat although measurements were not collected beyond ASIS width.

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McKean MR et al. (2010). The lumbar and sacrum movement pattern during the back squat exercise. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 24(10); 2731-2741

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