I cringe when I hear people say: “I don’t do anything like squats or lunges because I have bad knees.” Nobody has perfect knees but you’re not doing your knees a favor by staying away from loading them.
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The groin (adductor) muscles often get neglected in training in terms of isolated exercises. Keeping this area healthy and strong will go a long way in terms of helping you perform at high levels in sport and training.
This exercise is great if you need a new challenge in your core training or if you’re trying to get rid of some lingering groin discomfort.
Nagging groin pain can indicate that you need to strengthen your adductor/groin muscles. Many people try to stretch chronic groin tightness/tenderness with no avail. Try this exercise to add some isometric adductor strengthening to your routine instead.
Try this elevated short range reverse lunge to set a great foundation for your single leg training:
Avoid sagging on your 1-arm bent over row work. It's easy to be focused on the arm doing the row while you ignore the stabilizing arm.
The mistake many folks make when their back gets cranky is to rest and avoid moving. Another common response to a cranky low back is to rest and stretch. Doing the right stretches is ok but you need to add fundamental core work if you want to get your back un-cranky for more than a few minutes.
How often are you training in multiple planes? It's important to expose your body structures to multiple planes of movement when you train. Try this Lateral Skater Hop for better results:
Flexibility and mobility work should support your strength work, not replace it. The terms flexibility and mobility are popular and rightfully so. You need to have requisite flexibility and movement quality to perform at your best. That being said, there's no substitute for responsible strength training when it comes to preparing the human body for durability.
You need need to train to improve the skill of absorbing impact. This 1-Leg Counterweight Squat will help you improve your landings.
NBA draft day is a special day for 60 young, talented basketball players. While with the @lakers, I enjoyed the days and months following draft day when I got to spend time working with young, hungry players who now had to get ready to perform on basketball's biggest stage. Here is my message to this year's NBA draftees on what to prioritize as a young professional about to realize their dream:
Strengthen your upper back, shoulders and posture with this @trxtraining Eccentric-Y w/ Row exercise.
Knee discomfort while lunging is common. This lunge variation is a great way to reap the benefits of loading the lunge pattern without aggravating your knees.
Quick no-equipment-needed hip warm-up. Sometimes we get carried away with warm-ups but you can't ignore them either. Here's a 3 exercise hip warm-up that will get your hips moving and fired up.
