Liftmas is back for 2023!
Liftmas is back! Liftmas was born during the 2022 Holiday season, when some of the athletes I work with asked for a Boxing Day (26th December for those of you … Continue reading Liftmas is back for 2023!
Liftmas is back! Liftmas was born during the 2022 Holiday season, when some of the athletes I work with asked for a Boxing Day (26th December for those of you … Continue reading Liftmas is back for 2023!
I don’t give out advice unless asked. But in the last few years, I’ve felt a rising urgency to at least start sharing the facts. I see so many people losing their ability to move well as they age, and perhaps not even realising the hugely powerful effects that exercise has to help manage (and in some cases, even reverse) age-related decline in almost all of the bodily systems.
So I won’t tell you what to do anymore (unless you hire me!). But I will share why exercise is so vital to living a longer, better life.
Something that I used to cue a lot years ago when teaching a squat was “hips back.” While some athletes can benefit from this cue (especially those with freaky ankle ROM – here’s looking at you, shorttrackers), an overemphasis on sending the hips back can turn the squatting movement into a semi-hinge pattern.