by Principle Four Osteopathy | Mar 17, 2016 | News
There is an oddly serious debate about the humble abdominal curl. One corner of the gym treats it as the missing key to every sporting goal; another talks as though rounding the spine once will set off an alarm. The movement deserves a calmer look. In the video on...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Mar 15, 2016 | News
Prone Shoulder Press Osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates how to perform a prone shoulder press. The reason you might choose to include an exercise like this into your program is to develop your posterior shoulder and back muscles and...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Feb 15, 2016 | News
Eccentric Shoulder External Rotator Exercises I was recently reading the article titled “Eccentric training for the shoulder external rotator part 2: practical applications” that was published in the strength and conditioning journal in 2013 and thought I...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Jan 20, 2016 | News
Banded Hip Mobility To Improve Squatting Opening up the hips is a very important function for being able to squat and in the image below I have prescribed a banded supported hip mobility exercise that has been borrowed from Kelly Starrett of Mobility Wod. The client...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Jan 18, 2016 | News
Narrow Stance Kettlebell Squat The exercise below demonstrated by osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy is a modification on the traditional goblet squat. I am a big believer in people varying their exercises regularly so force the body to adapt to...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Dec 18, 2015 | News
Rolling Patterns I was recently reading the article titled “Rolling Revisited: Using rolling to assess and treat neuromuscular control and coordination of the core and extremities of athletes” that was written by Barbara Hoogenboom and Michael Voight and...
