@timlebbossiere shares an important consideration on how to individualize upper body exercise seleciton based on t-spine presentation: From Tim: An easy way to individualize your program can be changing upper body exercise selection based on the thoracic spine. View this post on Instagram […]
This is a variation of the 90-Degree MiniBand Step-Out exercise I posted a couple weeks back. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Neeld, PhD (@kevinneeld) Similar to the previous variation, the goal here is to […]
Seemingly small improvements lead to large changes in training volume. There are many different ways to gauge training progress. In terms of resistance training, many people default to how much weight they use. While this is certainly reasonable, it may lead the individual to thinking they’ve made less progress than they actually have. For example, […]
Short excerpt from my book Ultimate Hockey Training on the “bilateral deficit”. There are structural, biomechanical and neurological reasons for why single-leg training is essential for sport performance, and advantageous for general population folks. Of particular interest – fatigue is pattern specific, so a focus on single-leg training leads to fatigue resistance in single-leg patterns, […]
One thing I used to hear from a lot of hockey players is “my legs are big enough.” In most cases, this was the player’s way of saying “lower body training is hard, and I don’t want to do it” but aside from the laziness, there’s a misconception that bigger means stronger. Muscle size relates […]