Posts Tagged ‘rehabilitation’
Non-athletes need discipline to keep working out; athletes need discipline to stop. Groin pain happens. It happened to one combat-sport athlete—a Kyokushin fighter and instructor—who then asked me for advice on dealing with it. Athletes, and especially combat-sport athletes, have high pain thresholds and high internal motivation. Those two traits combined make athletes vulnerable to […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching, Sports Injuries | 6 Comments
Tags: athletes, chronic injuries, discipline, dynamic stretches, early morning stretching, fighter, front splits, groin pain, injury treatment, Kyokushin, non-athletes, pubalgia, rehabilitation, side splits
There were some rainy days in Northeast Kingdom so I spent them reviewing and commenting video recording of my last seminar on combining strength and flexibility training. At the seminar I had the participants go through exercises that simultaneously stretch and strengthen the involved muscles, and even help with posture correction. One of these exercises […]
Filed under: Flexibility and Stretching, Sports Injuries | 14 Comments
Tags: back bridge, exercises, Flexibility, injury, rehabilitation, shoulder dislocation, strength, stretching
