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This exercise is a great way to build or maintain hip strength when you don't have access to barbells or dumbbells. It targets the posterior glute muscles. Keeping your glutes/hips strong is important for better performance. Strong hips help you move better and faster. Appropriate hip strength is also important in protecting the low back and your knees.
Quick MacGyver-style setup for the hotel weight room Dumbbell Seal Rows. Note the elevated bench via dumbbells for height. Read below on why you need to be doing these.
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You can't call it a hip thrust unless you're going to finish it. The hip thrust is a great exercise for developing your hip strength and booty size. The problem is that most people leave the most important part of the exercise out. It's important to get tabletop flat and finish the bridge or thrust portion of the exercise at the top.
Change the pace of your push-ups and get more out of them. People tend to go too fast on their push-ups and ignore good form. This results in a less effective exercise and puts you at risk for creating injury through bad form.
Today's Edge: Building muscle requires more than slurping protein shakes and doing curls. Muscle gain takes a comprehensive approach. Here are 6 components to efficient muscle gain:
Many pro athletes make Sports Center highlights despite poor nutrition and training guidance. Eventually good genes, hard work and high skill levels aren’t enough to make up for shaky nutrition and training. You can’t prevent every injury but you absolutely can decrease injury risk and susceptibility with quality training and nutrition. It’s about training harder and smarter. Here are 3 red flags that your training or nutrition “experts” are sending you down the wrong path:
Your knees, hips and back can suffer if you're not taking care of your ankles and feet. Here are 3 easy strategies for maintaining quality motion in your ankles and feet:
A jacked up shoulder can be a buzz kill to any training program or fitness routine. Add some Half Kneel Band Pull Aparts to protect your shoulders from wear and tear.
The lack of a quality shoulder and arm care program can wreak havoc on your strides in the weight room, on the performance field/court, and in your overall health. However, if long-term resilience and robust shoulder health is your goal, you'll want to check out this 6-part warm-up routine.
Thanks for following this 3 part series. Shin splints tend to be hard to shake but let’s cover several ways to prevent and manage this frustrating issue. Keep in mind that piercing pain directly on the bones of the lower leg or numbness/tingling/loss of sensation in the lower leg or foot should be looked at by an MD. Shown in the video are 3 strategies to add strengthening to you shin splint pain management and prevention plan:
The @trxtraining Superman is a high level core exercise as long as you avoid common mistakes. One common mistake is letting the arms cheat to beyond a wide Y position towards a T position.
Today's Edge: Train your core from different angles. All you need is a band for the Tall Kneel Pallof Press.
Today's Edge: Take care of your calves to take care of your feet. Here's a video on how to use a self massage tool, like a lacrosse ball, to keep your calves happy and your plantar fasciitis under control.
Shin splints tend to be hard to shake but let’s cover several ways to prevent and manage this frustrating issue. Keep in mind that piercing pain directly on the bones of the lower leg or numbness/tingling/loss of sensation in the lower leg or foot should be looked at by an MD. Shown in the video is part 2: 3 strategies to add strengthening to you shin splint pain management and prevention plan.
Today's Edge: Shin splints tend to be hard to shake but let’s cover some easy ways to prevent and manage this frustrating issue. Keep in mind that piercing pain directly on the bones of the lower leg or numbness/tingling/loss of sensation in the lower leg or foot should be looked at by an MD. Shown in the video are 3 strategies to start with when you experience shin splint pain:
We sit more than ever and our hips suck because of it. It's important to expose your hips to different and full ranges of motion to keep them performing at their best. Here's the Tripod Adductor Stretch:
Today's Edge: There's no sense in trying to gain hip mobility at the expense of your low back. One of the big reasons for working to keep your hips mobile and strong is to fend off low back pain. A big mistake that's often made is to neglect responsible form during hip mobility work. This can take a good attempt at hip mobility and turn it into a low back pain creating monster.
