So, we’ve learned how to resist excessive lumbar extension, and rotation. What’s left? We’ve worked in the sagittal plane and the transverse plane, so that leaves resisting lateral flexion about the frontal plane. Lateral flexion is essentially bending at the…
In the last article we began to discuss the important role our abdominal muscles play during physical activity, and how this should guide our abdominal training. To summarize, the abdominal muscles are stabilizers, not movers. Their job is to resist…
There aren’t many things better than coming to a realization that blows your mind, or completely shifts your paradigm. Or coming to understand something that at once seemed so abstract and strange. For me, what’s even cooler is watching that…
Originally Posted on the Fit 2 Excel Blog on April 6, 2018 All elite athletes have a lot in common. That’s largely because many sports, when it comes down to it are all played on the same foundation of well-rounded athletic development….
Originally Posted on the Fit 2 Excel Blog on February 27, 2018 To preface this article I will begin by saying that these concepts and principles are best explained in more detail in Mike Boyle’s New Functional Training for Sports, which has…
Originally Posted on the Fit 2 Excel Blog on December 16, 2017 In today’s world, it’s seemingly impossible to go five minutes without somebody somewhere trying to give you nutrition advice. Whether it’s the media quoting the latest fear-mongering message, your personal…
Originally Posted on the Fit 2 Excel Blog on December 4, 2017 Nearly all of us have been there. You wake up feeling great, the sun is shining and the beautiful December weather is in the air. You notice that one of…