Bucket of sand for a healthy hand! Walking on sand is a great form of working all the intrinsic muscles of the feet and challenges balance and strength. The irregular sand on beaches is great for this. It is tiring but beneficial for stabilizing the lower leg. The same can be said…
Have you felt that your hamstrings are missing flexibility? Are you stretching every day but there is not much change? Have you tired everything? Here is a simple exercise, which should be able to help you out as strange as it sounds and all you need is a firm rubber ball or golf ball….
The hip flexors are muscle that attach from the lower back, into the pelvis and the hip. They often get tight becasue of overuse or simply because we shorten them when we are sitting too long. Click on the video to find out how to properly stretch your hip flexors!
You have heard us talk about our Primal Movement Petterns before: Push, Pull, Twist, Squat, Bend, Lunge. Here is one exercise that covers 4 of those 6 movement patterns! Great bang for your buck! Click on the video to see what we mean!
Sometimes we can find ourselves stretching, massaging and rolling our hamstrings and nothing seems to happen. That's becasue they are trying to tell us that somethig else is makign them tight. Click on the video for a simple solution!
The Joint by Joint approach Everyone realizes how complicated the human body is, yet it can be so simple at times. This article will demonstrate that although we are capable of extreme things from fine motor control movements like threading a needle to gross motor control activities such as bungee jumping and gymnastics,…
Me: “Okay Johnny, let’s see you touch your toes!” Johnny: “That’s not going to happen! I was never able to touch my toes!” How many times have we heard this? It is not the be-all-end-all to touch your toes but it does give us the indication that your joints are working synchronously. Toe touching is…
Have pain in your back, knees or ankles? Is the idea of touching your toes laughable? Do you cringe at the idea of foam rolling your hamstrings? You might very well be hamstrung. The hamstrings are very important muscles in the body that are constantly being used to accomplish daily activities as simple as walking….
“Foam Rolling hurts!” The foam roller can indeed causes soreness but not because it is the roller’s fault! This is due to fact that the individual has a tightness in that particular area, say we use the front thighs (quadriceps) as an example. When muscles develop trigger points and “hot spots”, it is a simple…
Crunches? Side Crunches? Oblique Crunches? ummm…not anytime soon! As Mike Boyle, one of the world’s leading exercise experts says, “We use our abs to crunch when get up out of bed in the morning!” That is a little bit of a stretch however, but there is an underlying message there. Our abdominal muscles, which range…
