Category: Monday Rehab
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Monday Rehab: Help, I don’t have time to workout!
Instead of fixing an exercise today, let’s fix one of the most common problems everyone complains of……there is not enough time in the day to workout! There’s a million reasons why this happens, many of which are legitimate……although when I was binge watching Gilmore Girls last week and skipped my workout that probably wasn’t a…
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Monday Rehab: Hip Flexor Stretch
The Hip Flexors are one of the most commonly tight muscles we see in our clinic. They can be the source of back pain, bad posture, and they can even make it seem like you have tight hamstrings, when in fact they are just taught! And if you are someone that loves to squat, deadlift…
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Monday Rehab: Neutral Spine
Neutral spine: two words that fly around the training world a lot these days. I say it all the time on here and at my office. I read articles everyday that reference it. But I realized this week that it seems to be used incorrectly or perhaps too much. That’s not to say that understanding…
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Monday Rehab: Box Jumps!
Oh the Box Jump, one of the most common exercises guaranteed to produce a viral video…… If you do a search on youtube for Box Jump Fails, up pops an endless supply of people attempting what you can already tell is going to end in an accident. Yet the box jumps continue without any consideration…
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Monday Rehab: Hip Drop vs. Lumbar Rotation
Today’s exercise is more about cleaning up the intention behind it in addition to the form. How many of you have tried, or had a trainer take you through either a Scorpion or a Lumbar Rotation Exercise? If you have not experienced these before, here is what they look like: Good in theory right? The…
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Monday Rehab: Bird Dog Edition
Welcome to the Monday Rehab, this is where every week I will be posting an exercise that is notorious for being performed wrong and show you how to fix it! Last week I showed you how to clean up those pesky mountain climbers, so this week I wanted to share one of my favorite exercises,…
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A different way to climb
I will cut right to it, I hate mountain climbers. Always have, always will. I feel like they were solely created by some evil trainer many moons ago who wanted to have another method to torture their clients with just in case wall sits and burpees weren’t getting the job done. So suddenly they became…
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