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The 3 stretches you NEED to do regularly
So many body parts to mobilize, so little time. You've got to prioritize your mobility. There isn't enough hours in the day to hit everything that needs work (for some of you out there). And who wants to spend hours mobilizing anyway? Not me! So here are...
read moreTraining your Subscap
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about your subscapularis and since then I seem to have seen quite a few clients who have had some difficulty in performing the lift off test. Did they have a shoulder problem? Yep. Which came first, the shoulder injury, or the...
read moreWhat’s with the pain in my Achilles??
So you've been box jumping, double undering and running. And then you see the better, faster athletes doing those "bouncy" box jumps...and they are so much faster! So you give them a crack. They're pretty shaky at first and you may have lost some skin off your shins...
read more4 Exercises for Sciatica
Hopefully the last blog post cleared up some confusion as to what sciatica actually is! Here are my top 4 exercises to help relieve some of your sciatic pain. Keep in mind that these exercises are to be used as a guide only and if your CAUSE of sciatica is...
read morePinchy shoulder? Maybe your subscap’s not up to scratch
The subscapularis is an integral part of a functioning rotator cuff and often overlooked in favor of strengthening the external rotators of the shoulder. The subscap is one of the 4 muscles that make up the rotator cuff, which are the SITS muscles - supraspinatus...
read moreTop 4 Exercises for Sciatica
Hopefully the last blog post cleared up some confusion as to what sciatica actually is! Here are my top 4 exercises to help relieve some of your sciatic pain. Keep in mind that these exercises are to be used as a guide only and if your CAUSE of sciatica is...
read moreSciatica Part 1
So you've got this funky leg pain that starts in your glutes and maybe travels down the back/side of the leg into the calf. Google has diagonsed you with "sciatica". But what actually IS sciatica and are you sure that's what you've got?? Sciatica is an "umbrella term"...
read moreAre you chair-shaped?
First off I just want to congratulate all the individuals and teams that have made it to the next phase of competition and give a massive shout out to my teammates from TEAM ALIVE for their awesome showing a couple weekends ago at the Australia/New Zealand...
read moreREGIONALS BOUND!!!
If you've been wondering why I haven't been posting any super helpful blogs lately, it's because I've been training my ass off for #Regionals2014!!!!! Yep, that's right! I am going to be competing in the 2014 Australia/New Zealand Regional THIS WEEKEND with my super,...
read morePinchy hip pain?
Are you suffering from pinchy, tight front of hip pain that is aggravated by squatting? You're not alone!! This is quite a common complaint in the Crossfit world, especially when people start squatting with increased volume and load without adequate technique and/or...
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