Quick Tips To Improve Mobility
Here are some great mobility tips from one of our awesome Doctor’s of Physical Therapy, Matt Hinsey!
Mobility/Soft-Tissue Work
Having the necessary mobility of muscles and joints allows us to function through our body’s full range of motion to move (and EXERCISE!) more efficiently decreasing undue stress to our muscles and joints. Limited mobility also leads to potential compensations that could also lead to injury.
So what’s the best way to improve mobility?
Read full blogSports Performance Training Unwrapped By Aaron Bonaccorsy, CSCS, CSPS, FRCms
What exactly is Sports Performance Training?
The easiest way to explain sports performance training is: training to increase an athletes effective range. An athletes effective range is the amount of area around an athlete that he or she can control. If you think about a young athlete (like a 4-7 year-old), they can barely control their own body, let alone any area outside of it. Therefore, their effective range is zero, or just their body.
Read full blogForgotten Shoulder Muscle: Weight Lifting and Injury Prevention with Akil Piggott, PT, DPT, ACSM EP-C
I spend a significant amount of time in the gym. Depending on who you ask, I spend too much time in the gym. But over the years I have been able to make many observations of “the average” weight lifter. Let’s have a dialogue with “the average” weight lifter and see what we can learn:
Me: How often do you train chest and shoulders?
The “average” weight lifter: Once, maybe twice a week.
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