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Addressing Lumbar Spine Position With Hip Flexion in Quadruped Position In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a quadruped rocking exercise that uses the water bottle as an external cue to help facilitate lumbar control...

Wall Scapular Press - Strengthening Your Shoulder Girdle In the videos below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a closed chain (hands on wall) scapular press.  This is a great exercise to include in the early stages of rehab for the upper...

Barbell Overhead Press - Building Overhead Strength The barbell overhead press (military press) is one of my favourite exercises for building strength overhead.  It is a staple in my training program (with bench press, pull ups, squats, deadlifts, lunges and step...

Shoulder Stabilisation and Strengthening - Bottoms Up Kettlebell Press In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a lying (supine) bottoms up kettlebell scapular press.  This is a great exercise as the bottoms up kettlebell...

Addressing Shoulder Mobility Whilst Squatting & Lunging In the videos below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating a number of shoulder mobility exercises using the dowel rod (focusing on rotation through the upper limb)...

Swiss Ball Wall Shoulder Exercise To Improve Flexion Loading In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams demonstrating a shoulder stability exercise that works to help with shoulder flexion.  The idea is to keep the swiss ball pressed up against the wall...

Bent Over Dumbbell Row In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams performing a bent over dumbbell row.  This is a great exercise for those wishing to train the horizontal pulling pattern combined with needing to stabilise through the trunk. This blog...

Bent Over Row - Single Arm Dumbbell - Anti Rotation Focus In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing a ipsilateral bent over row with dumbbell.  The challenge with this exercise is that you must stabilise the torso...

Spinal Flexion In the image below you will see osteopath Heath Williams performing a seated spinal flexion reach hold. This is something that I generally suck at and it is my goal to work on improving this.  The idea will be to build on my posterior chain (calf and...