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Breathing Patterns and Functional Movement
Breathing Patterns and Functional Movement I was recently reading the article titled "Breathing pattern disorders and functional movement" that was authored by Helen Bradley and Joseph Esformes and published in the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy in...
Assessing The Athlete
Assessing The Athlete I was recently reading the article titled "Athletic ability assessment: A movement assessment protocol for athletes" that was published by Ian McKeown, Kristie Taylor-McKeown, Carl Woods and Nick Ball in The International Journal of Sports...
Bent Over Row Using The Multi Grip Bar
Bent Over Row Using The Multi Grip Bar In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating a bent over row using the multigrip bar. This is a great tool to use for this exercise as it allows you to adopt varying hand...
Posterior Hip Capsule Stretch
Posterior Hip Stretch Often the posterior hip capsule and structures in this region tighten up as a result of day to day activities and work tasks. In the images below osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates one of his favourite posterior...
Dynamic Blackburn Exercise
Dynamic Blackburn Exercise In the video below you will see an example of the dynamic blackburn exercise which is a great exercise for getting the shoulder girdle prepared for training. This was recently demonstrated and taught by strength and conditioning coach...
Multi Plane Lunge Exercises
Multi Plane Lunge Exercises 9 times out of 10 I will see people performing a sagittal plane lunge (anterior or posterior) whilst never having considered adding in lunge movement patterns in other planes of movement. I am a massive fan of prescribing the lunge in my...
Bent Over Alternating Kettlebell Scissor Row
Bent Over Alternating Kettlebell Scissor Row In the video below osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates a bent over alternating scissor row. This is a great exercise for those wanting work on maintaining a stable torso position (resisting...
The Abdominal Curl Exercise
The Abdominal Curl Exercise The video below of osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates a cable abdominal curl. The aim of this exercise is to load (concentrically and eccentrically) the abdominal muscles. There are a variety of different...
A Frame To Push Up With Translation
A Frame To Push Up With Translation In the video below osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates 3 different movement exercises combined to form one movement flow. Starting with the A Frame position (modified with bent knee to maintain...
Prone Shoulder Press
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...
Eccentric Shoulder External Rotator Exercises
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 would...
Scapular Stabilisation Exercise
Scapular Stabilisation Exercises I was recently reading the article titled "Scapular Stabilization Rehab Exercise Prescription" that was published in the Strength and Conditioning Journal in 2006 and thought I would discuss some of the key take home messages from the...