Article compliments of Personal Training on the Net. A recent post on my web site forum made me realize that often a short answer to a complicated question doesn’t work. A few of my readers seemed to think that all of the recent talk about a weak psoas muscle or an under-active psoas muscle might just be people being trendy. I strongly disagree.
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Personal trainers spend a lot of time with clients strengthening arms, legs, and core, working on flexibility, and building cardio stamina. It may be easy…
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Runner’s knee is a broad term used to describe pain felt from various knee problems. Typically, it is used to refer to patellofemoral pain syndrome…
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Given that the quadriceps muscles are the largest muscle complex in the body, they are important to understand in depth and to focus on in…
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The quadriceps femoris muscles (quads) are the most voluminous muscles in the body— the quad muscles together contain more mass than any other muscle group—…
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You may have to realize that your clients, or even yourself, have some significant ankle joint mobility limitations. Hopefully, you’ve also come to realize how…
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Training core abdominal muscles is sometimes a straightforward goal for personal training clients, and other times – injuries and discomfort arise when crunching, planking and…
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Identify the location of posterior tibialis and cue ankle and foot exercises more effectively with clients. Hopefully, you are doing foot and ankle exercises with…
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For decades the leg extension, squat, leg press and lunge have all been used by general fitness clients, rehab patients and elite athletes alike without much on the side of specific research to help the fitness coach in determining which exercise to use or recommend for a specific goal or need. To understand the concepts and summaries of this article let’s start by taking an in-depth look at the internal components of the knee.
READ MORE Identify the location of anterior tibialis and cue ankle and foot exercises more effectively with clients. I hope you are working your clients ankles and…
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Body awareness can improve training results, boost sports performance, and decrease the risk of injury. Body awareness is a component of fitness where the…
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What’s the difference between doing triceps extensions with a pronated grip, supinated grip and neutral? This is a common question that arises about the many…
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