What's the best core exercise you're not doing? The Farmer's Walk.
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Today's Edge: Take care of the small stuff to be ready for the big stuff. This band resisted clamshell exercise might not be impressive but it's important.
Are we giving our athletes the best possible chance to succeed? It's important to take a deeper look at the total dosage of exercise we are prescribing for our athletes and the level of readiness we are providing for them. These factors ultimately tie into the notion of how available these athletes will be to participate in their sport. That's the key: availability. If we prepare them and provide the proper development, durability within their sport will be the likely outcome.
What's happening at your feet and toes can make or break your performance. We tend to take function of our feet and toes for granted. Maybe we just assume foot to ground performance is up to our shoes? Having strength and mobility of your toes and feet is key for what happens above the foot during any activity. Here's a quick drill you can do to build strength and mobility of your toes and feet:
PART 8 of the #SingleLegStrength Training Series with @matthewibrahim_: Single Leg Step-Up Progressions (Linear Focus)
Healthy hips and a strong core are at the center of every resilient athlete. Here's a 6-part warm-up routine that you can incorporate prior to your strength training to properly prepare your hips and core for long-term health and athletic success.
Today's Edge: Better balance requires better single leg training. These progressions will help you to advance your single leg training and better your balance:
Today's Edge: Part 2 - Adding adductor work to your training can be a game changer. The adductors often get overlooked but they play an important role in how you handle accelerations, decelerations and change of direction.
Today's Edge: Adding adductor work to your training can be a game changer. The adductors often get overlooked but they play an important role in how you handle accelerations, decelerations and change of direction.
Today's Edge: Clean up your 1-leg deadlift form by adding a wall press. Exercises are skills and to make them more precise you need to practice them.
Today's Edge: Finish each set and repetition with great form. A common mistake in training is to perform an exercise with good form until the end of the rep or set. Sometimes it's lack of focus, sometimes fatigue, and sometimes it's not knowing what a good finish looks like.
Today's Edge: Friends don't let friends do loaded carries like a dummy. Good posture is always important, but it's extra important while under load. Bad posture/form under load is a shortcut to injury. Loaded carries are a great core exercise as long as you do them right.
Target your hips, core, shoulders, lats, and triceps with this 4 exercise total body workout
A few years ago it was vitamin D that everyone was low in, lately magnesium is the deficiency du jour. Have you ever heard a news report about how most people are deficient in a vitamin or mineral and then rushed to the supplement aisle to load up on it in pill form?
Today's Edge: There's more to training the core than planks. Here's a great med ball exercise to train your core for what it's designed to do:
Today's Edge: Having someone punch you in the stomach while you do crunches isn't core training, it's nonsense. Train the core the right way with the Superman Slide-Out:
PART 6 of the #SingleLegStrength Training Series with @matthewibrahim_: Single Leg Hinge Progressions
PART 5 of the #SingleLegStrength Training Series with @matthewibrahim_: Single Leg Hinge Progressions