Two more reps….
I attended and coached our box's ladies team, Moulin Rogue, this weekend in Tyler, Texas. First of all, let me say thanks to the owners of CrossFit Tyler and their volunteers. Great event, well run [...]
RX could be holding you back!
Exerted from my recent Facebook post; I have said it on several occasions that RX or prescribed is an inaccurate term even though the non-medical meaning of the word means to; Merriam-Webster intransitive verb 1: [...]
Movement Screen 5 – Shoulder Reach
http://youtu.be/pRhCFkkL3ng This screen is designed to assess general shoulder mobility.
Movement Screen 4 – Overhead Squat
http://youtu.be/BlkocI9T_GU This movement screen assesses the overall mobility during compound movement of the joints and balance. Both stability and mobility are assessed in this movement.
Movement Screen 3 – Segmental Rotation
http://youtu.be/Dj1zZkrCJzU This screen is used to assess general rotation.
Movement Screen 2 – Segmental Extension
[youtube=http://youtu.be/YSto5rd488Q] This screen assesses the mobility of the chain and movement toward the back of the body. Focus on the quality of movement and compensations.
Movement Screen 1 – Segmental Flexion
http://youtu.be/A-T0CHhQOo4 This screen is used to determine posterior chain mobility and score the athlete for mobility health. This screen along with the other 4, are general screens for mobility health that may require more detailed [...]
Day 1 of 40fit Programming, let the madness begin!
It's here! Today is the first day of posting for 40fit programming. Don't be surprised if my brain doesn't explode from trying to figure out how to best get this stuff out there and have it make sense. I constantly battle between being a clinical scientist and a coach/trainer and how to balance the two. So, hopefully the ramblings of this mad scientist will make sense.
The value of fathers…
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I went and saw Man of Steel yesterday, wow what a great movie. After seeing the movie, it hit me, what a great examples of fatherhood from [...]
What the *&%$#?
I am even more convinced that most trainers, CF boxes and coaches haven't got a clue how to train athletes. There is so much priority given to random variability that there is no consistency in [...]
Pay me now, pay me later…
I often write about trying to balance that inward desire for a constant improvement in performance and being healthy. CrossFit, like many other higher level training programs, creates incredible demands on even the youngest and [...]
40fit Programming!
The more I trained using various methods, the more I realized there was something missing. I noticed that even though I was significantly more fit than most of my peers, my experience in training was [...]