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Shoulder Post-Rehabilitation

In the author’s practice as a Kinesiologist, the terminal goal of each client’s program is to improve the strength and quality of functional/everyday motions: pushing, pulling, squatting, lifting, carrying, and locomotion. After a client has been cleared by a medical professional to engage in exercise, a key step in the client’s post-rehabilitation (PR) program is…

Pregnancy and Core Training

Evidence-based, periodized exercise programs have the capacity to improve several biomarkers such as cardiovascular adaptations, higher bone mineral density, improved blood profiles, and muscular strength (Piper, Jacobs, Haiduke, Waller, & McMillan, 2012). Considered universally favorable adaptations for all people, what remains unique however, is how such improvements are sought for each individual, and special populations. The following…

Low-Back Pain and Program Design

Clients recovering from motor vehicle injuries that are ready and approved for strength training (i.e., post-rehabilitation) require well-developed programs, which maximize effectiveness while minimizing risk of re-injury. Extensive weakness and deconditioning are common traits among the aforementioned populace, dominated by middle-aged (40-65 years) clientele in the author’s practice. Clients are often seeing a medical professional…

How Do I Get Stronger?

That’s a question that requires quite a detailed response to be perfectly honest. However, I’d like to break it down into a simple concept to get your mind wrapped around the process. Its called Progressive Overload. This is an extremely important, but often overlooked, component to an exercise program. It is this very process that…