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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...
Taking A Look At The Dumbbell Fly On The Swiss Ball
Taking A Look At The Dumbbell Fly On The Swiss Ball I was recently reading the article titled "Unilateral Supine Dumbbell Fly Using A Stability Ball" that was published in the strength and conditioning journal in 2011 and thought I would highlight some of the key take...
Strict Lat Pull Down
Strict Lat Pull Down Many times I will see people performing a Lat Pull Down with what I can only describe as terrible technique. Yes they might have a super heavy weight on their, but when there is a fair degree of momentum being generated through the torso in...
Banded Hip Mobility To Improve Squatting
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...
Narrow Stance Kettlebell Squat
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...
Rolling Patterns
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 was...
A Review of Ultimate Athleticism by Max Shank
A Review of Ultimate Athleticism by Max Shank 2015 has been a year of learning more about movement, stability and learning to master some fundamental bodyweight movements for myself. After many years of traditional body building exercises and recently powerlifting, I...