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Assessing volitional contraction of the transverse abdominus is an essential part of any high quality low back pain managament strategy. While I will use upper body rolling as a proxy for reflexive contraction, here is how I do volitional transverse abdominus assessment and faciliation:
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Hey everyone. In this video, we're going to be discussing a sprint start starting from a lateral shuffle. So in this drill, what we're going to do is instruct our athlete to line up facing a direction about 90 degrees from where they're running. And so what we're going to do is we'll start into a la...
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All right, now we're going to take a look at doing some resistance to dorsiflexion, to kind of get some overflow to the quad to get a stronger quad contraction. So we just simply wrap tubing around the foot here and go ahead and tighten up your quad for me. Good. And then bring your toes up and h...
Now we're going to work on teaching her how to feel that multifidus contraction first of all reflexively, and then ultimately we want her to feel it volitionally. But this is kind of the first step. So what I'm going to have her do is I'm going to have you take this hand and bring it and find the...
Hey everyone! Today we're going to be discussing an A Hop for maximal speed and acceleration training. So for this drill, it's going to be the same setup as our A March would be. We're going to achieve dorsiflexion or a toe up position with the knee drive. And for this drill, what we're going to do ...
So now we're going to take a look at her internal rotation passively. We saw what it was when she was doing it actively. She was really limited in internal rotation. So we're going to show you the passive test of this. We're just going to bring her hip up to 90. I like to get in here kind of cup ...
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For prone hip mobility, start by bringing your foot to the floor and bringing that knee up as far as you can towards your chest. You really want that knee up in your armpit, and then take your arm and wrap it around your knee and hug your knee to your chest even more. You want to be sure you're k...
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For internal rotation isometric, go ahead and place a towel roll underneath your arm and stand with your shoulder blades down and back. And with your elbow at 90 degrees, go ahead and push into the doorframe for 10s while maintaining that really good posture. And then repeat.Â
Hey everybody. In this video we're going to be discussing B Skipping. This will be very similar to the B Marching we did in the previous video, except we're adding a skip to it now. So we're going to do is ask our athlete to get into the starting position and to review for this drill, we're going to...
Hey everyone. In this video, we are going to be discussing the A Skip with a double exchange. So it will be very similar to our regular A Skip, except we will be pausing as we alternate between legs. So we’ll instruct our athlete to get into the starting position. Same thing with our A Skips, we're ...
Hey, everyone. Today we're going to be discussing a lateral push to base drill for lateral speed and agility. So what we'll do is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position in an athletic ready position. Then what we're going to do is we are going to push in the direction of which we want ...
