Lots of blogs out there to read. My goal is to get you moving, not reading. After all knowledge without application is useless. The idea here is to post video or pictures of different types of movement exercises or flexibility drills that will help you get your body moving better and hopefully more often. Its not about correcting poor movement, its more about encouraging good movements that matter for you, your life and your recreational activities. Many of these movements will apply to athletics and more specifically rotational athletes and swinging sports because this is an area that I have specialized in for several years.
What I would like to do is highlight a required good movement or piece of movement and then show you exercises or drills that will help you achieve this movement efficiently and without pain. So if your a golfer you will need a certain amount of movement in your ankles, knees, hips and pelvis to create a good base of support and proper sequencing of movement for transfer of energy to the upper body in the backswing.
I will break down each area of needed movement and show you an exercise that can help you with the movement. I will also show you a movement that imitates the correct pattern in order to train yourself to integrate this movement into the swing or activity. I call these drills isolation and then integration exercises. Both are needed for movement to be effectively changed in order for good movement to become the norm.
I believe that movement is a learned skill and anyone can learn to move specifically for their desired activities. Of course this requires a safe progression of movement and most people will never move perfectly, but nevertheless anyone can improve their ability to move with simple targeted exercises.
I will try to get the content up twice monthly and I am glad to help with any questions or if you are in need of a custom program. Enjoy the content and please send feedback.
In Health,
Scott Shepard MSPT CSCS
www.planeperformance.com
Good stuff Scott.
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