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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...
For diaphragmatic breathing, go ahead and put one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach and take a deep breath in. We want all the movement to be coming from the stomach, so your hand on your chest should be staying nice and still, while the one on your stomach is moving up toward ...
For long arc quad with ankle pump with weight, straighten the knee all the way out. Hold it there. Bring the ankle up and down while you keep the knee perfectly straight. Repeat that ten times.
Today we're going to be doing isometric knee strength testing using a crane scale as a cheaper alternative to a lot of those expensive handheld dynamometers and things like that. So we'll get you the links for all the products that we're using here, but we just have a strap that goes from the tab...
For prone hip mobility, start by bringing your foot to the floor and bringing that knee up as far as you can towards your chest. You really want that knee up in your armpit, and then take your arm and wrap it around your knee and hug your knee to your chest even more. You want to be sure you're k...
Hey, everyone! Today we're going to be discussing A March for linear speed development and acceleration development. So we're going to instruct our athlete to get in the starting position and the big emphasis for this drill is achieving maximum dorsiflexion or toe up and then driving through the toe...
Hey everyone. Today we're going to be discussing lateral speed and agility training. And in this video we're going to cover a lateral march. So we’ll instruct our athlete to assume the starting position going through a march getting comfortable with that. So marching. And on our signal we'll have th...
So now we're going to take a look at her internal rotation passively. We saw what it was when she was doing it actively. She was really limited in internal rotation. So we're going to show you the passive test of this. We're just going to bring her hip up to 90. I like to get in here kind of cup ...
Hey, everyone. Today we're going to be discussing a lateral push to base drill for lateral speed and agility. So what we'll do is instruct our athlete to get in the starting position in an athletic ready position. Then what we're going to do is we are going to push in the direction of which we want ...
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...
For internal rotation isometric, go ahead and place a towel roll underneath your arm and stand with your shoulder blades down and back. And with your elbow at 90 degrees, go ahead and push into the doorframe for 10s while maintaining that really good posture. And then repeat.
