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SharePurpose: I have found it difficult to find unlicensed exercise pictures of certain exercises.  One of the goals of this blog is to share exercise pictures with anyone that would like to use them.  Most pictures are in jpeg format so they can be inserted into documents that you create.  [...]

ShareADDUCTOR EMPHASIS
Purpose: Exercise Sheet handout Attached is a handout for four variations on the sidebridge.  If you do not know what you are doing please speak with a professional before incorporating these into  your strength and conditioning program.
HERE IS THE FULL SHEET IN PDF: side bridge variations sheet
SIDEBRIDGE BEGINNER
SIDEBRIDGE STANDARD
SIDEBRIDGE ADVANCED

ShareAudience: Health Professionals and Patients
Source of Information: Paula Ludewig, Ben Kibler, Ann Cools, Rafael Escamilla, Mike Reinold, Kevin Wilks
Disclaimer: The information below really just scratches the surface.  References at the end of post are excellent.  The point of this post is to get people to think more about culprits of [...]

ShareBird Dog
Audience: Patients, Trainers & health professionals
Utility: Exercise sheet handout for basic spine “stability” training
What exercises: Bird dog, side bridge, curl up
Stability is in quotes because you can certainly debate whether these exercises actually increase “stability”.  Or more accurately make the stable system more Robust.  What these simple but great [...]

ShareAttached is a basic exercise protocol as part of a large physiotherapy regime I might use for someone with some lower extremity dysfunction.  Many of these exercises would be used for non specific knee pain (PFPS, ITB syndrome).  The nordic hamstring exercise could be skipped but should certainly be used [...]

ShareAttached is a simple one page exercise sheet to train the lower/mid trapezius (scapular retraction) and the serratus anterior.  The assumption is that these exercises, along with other training and physiotherapy (ART etc), will position the shoulder blade in a better position.  Ideally, avoiding forward tilt and a position that [...]

ShareAudience:  Patients
Format:  Patient Handouts
Topic:  Trunk, hip and knee motor control exercises to improve control of knee position
This post is  a handout that I give to patients.  As with all exercises they should be done under some supervision (physiotherapist, personal trainer, chiropractor) and always with a health professionals guidance.  In no [...]

ShareAudience: Health professionals
I used to be a researcher (exercise biomechanics, physiotherapy,  chiropractic) - one of my goals was to quantify how hard muscles worked during different exercises.  This was important for determining which exercises may be best for targeting a certain muscle or determining how modifications to exercises (e.g. doing [...]

ShareIntended Audience:  anyone who has not already been doing this for years

OK, OK.  There is not just one perfect exercise for everyone.  But this one comes close and for reasons you don’t expect.  The side bridge is an exercise that is typically thrown into the category of the “core” and [...]

SharePatients often experience anterior hip pain.  Physiotherapists and chiropractors will see this everyday and it is often challenging.  This pain can manifest during walking, squatting (a pinching sensation felt during a squat) or during different exercises. There are certainly many causes and one possible cause of this anterior hip pain [...]

ShareThanks Jesse,
Keep in touch and good luck with your clinic. Let me know how things are going.
Greg

Share“Do self promoters in the fitness industry always need to knock things down to “prove” that what they do is best? I write this as a warning for all to be skeptical of everything you read – including me”
Truer words were never spoken in the rehab.strength training blog world.

ShareHey Greg,
Great site! I just found it via Mike Reinold’s weekly e-blast where he linked an article you wrote.
Glad to see you’re promoting yourself. You should be!!
Hope all is well

ShareGreat insight and example in squating and running. I did learn from a well known chiro about the hamstring flex to inhibit the psoas on a reverse curl-this definatley sheds new light.
Jacqueline