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Diaphragmatic Breathing -- On Stomach breathing

Hands & Knees to 3 Point Transition - Phase 1

For the hands and knees to three point transition phase one, start by bringing your foot up next to your hand, and then come up nice and tall with your arms overhead, getting into a nice tall posture. Come on back down and repeat.

B March acceleration speed

Hey everyone, in this video today we're going to be discussing B Marching. So this is another way that we can develop maximum speed and acceleration. So what we'll do for this drill is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position. And for this one what we're going to be focusing on is a knee...

Multifidus Assessment

Now we're going to take a look at both evaluating the person's multifidus and then also starting to show them how to contract it. We ultimately want to get a volitional contraction of the multifidus. So we're going to palpate the iliac crest. And then we're going to go inward and find the spinous...

Strength Testing -- Fixed Dynamometry strength testing

Isometric Knee Strength Testing: A Cost-Effective Solution Using a Crane Scale

As we discussed in the podcast Electrical Stimulation & Quad Strength Testing after ACL Reconstruction, you know I believe in the principle: what gets measured gets managed. If we aren't getting objective numbers on our ...

Shoulder Extension Range of Motion rom shoulder

All right. Now we're going to measure shoulder extension range of motion. Our athlete’s going to be in the prone position with the head in neutral. And we're going to still use our same seize grip stabilizing position. This time I'm going to have my thumb on the backside of the scapula, and my fi...

Isometric Shoulder Flexion flexion shoulder

For shoulder flexion isometrics, place a towel underneath your arm and then get your shoulder blades down and back with really good posture. Then bend your elbow so it's at 90 degrees and push into the doorframe for 10s. Relax and repeat.

Push to Base and Return agility speed

Hey, everyone! Today we're going to be discussing a push to base and return for lateral speed and agility. So what we'll do is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position, finding our ready athletic base. We will then push in the direction we want to go with the opposite leg. So push and th...

Lower Body Flexion Rolling

For lower body rolling bring both arms overhead, and you're going to pretend that you cannot move from your waist up. That means your upper body is staying perfectly still. Bring the leg over and across your body. And the last thing that should come over is the upper body. And it should come over...

Multifidus Training

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...

B Skip

This will be very similar to the B Marching, 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 go hands on hips, focus on a knee drive and then grab the ground underneath us. So what that will ...