Exercise of the Week: Slide-board Lateral Slides

Hello again! This week’s Exercise of the Week will introduce a new piece of equipment here at Athletic Training and Fitness. This piece of equipment is found in a lot of gyms, but I know in ours it rarely gets used. This one is great for the hips and the groin with the lateral movement you’re about to see. Definitely expect to see more use of the slide-board in the near future!

Exercise of the Week: Clamshells

This week’s Exercise of the Week is going to explore the hips. This is coming from Mike Reinold’s blog. Enjoy!

Exercise of the Week: Ankle Prehab

This week’sExercise of the Weekcomes from Fitness Quest 10 in San Diego. We’re going to work on strengthening the ankles and work on the foundation for our workouts…

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Exercise of the Week: Kettlebell Snatch

This week we’ll bring back the kettlebell with thisexercise of the week. Here’s a short instructional video on the kettlebell snatch. Enjoy!

Exercise of the Week: TRX Letters

This week’s Exercise of the Week is bringing back the TRX Suspension Trainer. This series of exercises are for the arms and more particularly geared toward the rotator cuff. They are commonly performed using Theraband or light dumbbells, but this is another way of doing them!

Exercise of the Week: Quadruped Rocking

This week’s Exercise of the Week is some low-back rehab and prehab exercise. Check it out and give it a shot!

Exercise of the Week: Rowing

This week I will bring back the Exercise of the Week. This week’s exercise video shows the technique needed to use a Concept C2 Rower.

 

Not Involved in Columbia Incidents

The Republic Times out of Waterloo is reporting that a Columbia man has been charged in the last several days regarding incidents that are said to have occurred in January. Unfortunately for me, that man shares my name with the exception of the middle initial and he is said to be about my age.

I debated whether to acknowledge the news report here, but it is important to me that I make it known that I have no connection to anything along those lines. Having checked the “Site Stats” for my blog and elsewhere where I write, I have noticed multiple instances of people searching for information regarding the alleged crimes and have landed at the respective blogs. It is interesting sometimes to see what people are looking for on the internet and how one thing can lead to a website that really is unrelated but somehow connects anyway.

My profession requires a great deal of trust and I want to make sure my patients (the student-athlete), their parents, coaches, and administrators recognize that I have zero connection to this.

I wanted to address this and will now move forward…

Little Health and Wellness Q&A Humor

I don’t know where this came from, but I found it on the internet this evening so I thought I’d share. Enjoy!

Q: Doctor, I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true? A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it… Don’t waste on exercise. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Take nap.

Exercise of the Week: Yoga Baby Cradle

Another week here in the Exercise of the Week series. We’re going to stick with the yoga as we have in previous weeks. This is a hip exercise allowing us to work on some hip flexibility. Hip flexibility is something that I think a lot of us miss out on and for that reason we tend to have both hip and knee pain. Most knee pain, absent a traumatic event, is often linked to dysfunction in the hips.