Why Endurance Athletes Should Care about Deeper Squats As endurance athletes, we participate in sports that require a relatively limited range of motion. When we run, for example, we move into hip flexion, and we utilize a relatively small range of motion. We should NOT, however, shy away from using our full hip range-of-motion for […]

  Open up Tight Hips Before your next Workout Here’s a good two-part sequence that will combat “desk hips.” If you spend all day seated, you might complain about hip flexor inflexiblity and the inability to “fire your glutes.” Do this before your next workout and get more out of your session. 1) Get your […]

When Depression (of the Scapular Variety) is a Good Thing… Who doesn’t carry stress near their neck? Many of us have difficulty removing the tension from our upper trap and shoulder muscles, and we have shown you some ways to self-massage this tissue in the past. This drill offers a chance at restorative exercise to […]

Improve your Stability and Increase your Power! Who wouldn’t like to do that? As endurance athletes, this is something that we often struggle with. One of the major culprits in our lack of ability to produce powerful bursts (without injuring ourselves) is an absence of basic hip strength and stability. After all, how can your […]

Control your Core with this Drill When teaching core awareness and how to promote stability, this is one of my favorite things to do. The drill, performed at a pull-up bar, is a combination of extension in your posterior tissues and flexion in your anterior tissues. Think: prone supermans meet a v-up and produce this […]

November Local Athlete Spotlight: Guinness the Dog I’ve known Guinness for most of his life.  We adopted him from a shelter in Howard County almost 10 years ago.  Had we known that his reputation was that of a wild and distractible kangaroo, we might not have brought him home, but all things happen for a […]

A Variation on the Bridge We have stressed the importance of stability and power in and around the hips during activity. There are a number of different ways to execute the bridge exercise. Here is one option that ties in some of the concepts we’ve discussed before. Start from your back, knees bent, feet flat […]

Can you Skip? No, really, can you? If you spend time running, and you do not know how to skip, PLEASE spend a couple minutes to watch this video! Skipping involves the coordination of upper and lower body movements to create subtle amounts of trunk rotation. SO, if you can’t so this, I can almost […]

October Local Athlete Spotlight: Kelyn Soong   I met Kelyn Soong a number of years ago on a track in Bethesda, MD.  My wife had been training partners with him at a martial arts studio, and we all met up to run.  I was under the impression that Kelyn was just getting into running, but […]

Choose your Core Exercises as Indy Chose in the Last Crusade: Wisely! Too often am I in the gym witnessing poor form and exercise execution. One of the biggest areas I see flaws in movement is also one of the most important areas: the core! Most people have seen or tried what is often referred […]