Three Brattiest Muscles in the Body and How to Handle Them

There are quite a few stubborn myofascial instigators that can hold clients back, but with a little know-how, any fitness professional can learn to identify these culprits and address them. Working as a sports doc and rehab specialist, I get to take clients through the entire process of rehabilitation, injury prevention, and all the way […]

Three Essential Exercises to Improve Every Client’s Mobility

There will likely always be room for improvement with regard to the fitness client’s mobility, so having a short list of go-to exercises that can apply to everyone is a great addition to every trainer’s toolbox. The beauty of the following three exercises is the reproducibility and simplicity of using them to evaluate mobility issues. […]

What is Mobility and Why Does it Matter?

If you’ve been in the world of fitness more than 10 minutes, you’ve most likely heard the terms mobility, stability and flexibility thrown around a lot. Mobility refers to a joint’s ability to explore its full range of motion (ROM) taking into account restricted muscle tissue, joints, joint capsules, soft tissue and motor control; it […]

3 Best Shoulder Warm-Ups

Skipping your personal training client’s warm-up can be tempting, that is, until you find the right ones. Making sure your tissues and joints are ready for loading is vitally important to avoiding injury and getting the most out of your workout. I may be a Doctor of Chiropractic, a mobility and rehab specialist, and a […]

Pec Wall Hover Warm-Up Exercise

The shoulder joint is notoriously prone to injury because of its ability to move in all planes of motion and the sheer number of structures contributing to its support, creating more opportunities for any one of those structures to tighten up, become overactive, or become weakened. Striving for optimal mobility not only will prevent sports-related […]

Kinesiology Tape: How Can Fitness Pros Use It?

Kinesiology Tape, or K-Tape is everywhere now, and it’s more important than ever to know the what, why, and how behind the “magic”. Don’t be left out of the K-Tape revolution! Myself? I’ve been dabbling with tapes for over seven years now, and have taped thousands of humans up and down the West Coast, both […]

Teens Growing “Horns”: How To Help Prevent Text Neck

This just in: Teen bodies are going through changes! Perhaps not in the way you’d expect, though. A 2018 study has re-emerged, covered in the last weeks by the BBC, TIME magazine, and spanning the internet with a viral frenzy, discussing strange bony growths showing up on the back of teens’ heads resembling “horns”. Let’s […]

Why The Psoas Is Significant

The terms “psoas” and “hip flexor” are common jargon in the health and fitness world, but getting an intimate handle on the specifics may help your clients perform better or even help relieve their back pain. In this article, we’ll discuss the anatomy, the implications in performance and injury, and how to keep the psoas […]

IT Band Syndrome: It’s Not Your IT Band!

Whether your clients have complained about it being tight or you’ve experienced it firsthand, the IT band is searched popularly on YouTube and commonly among those who exercise regularly. Aside from discussion, there is plenty of debate on how to manage tightness or injury, most specifically on how to handle IT Band Syndrome. Should we […]

Fears and Frights – Addressing Your Fitness Clients’ Biopsychosocial Barriers

October is traditionally a time for beers and fears, but while Bavarian festivals abound and horror movies play on loop, it’s easy to forget in all the fun that addressing real fear can be a huge component of what we do as movement experts. Humans carry individual, deep-seated beliefs that are weighed against any new […]