4 Fitness Tips

Tip #1

One-sided back pain is almost always related to a lack of hip external rotation and
hip extension range of motion. If your hip doesn't externally sufficiently, you'll compensate by rotating more at your lumbar spine. If you don't have terminal hip extension (thanks to glutes that actually fire), you'll compensate with lumbar hyperextension.

Extension-rotation syndromes are a good 80% of lower back problems. Work on hip
mobility and stabilize the lumbar spine, and you'll be golden. Aggressive soft tissue work with the foam roller and lacrosse ball is useful on the TFL/IT band, quads, adductors, piriformis, and gluteus medius. Go see your Chiropractor.


Tip #2

Make sure your trainer performs a static postural assessment on you. When performing a static postural assessment, you're looking for 90 degree angles and straight lines. When the body starts to deviate from these guidelines, you open yourself up to pain and injury.

This is much akin to the car with poor alignment; if you just drive it around the block at 20 miles per hour chances are you'll be fine. But, the second you want to open it up and go full throttle, things start to go out of whack and next thing you know you need a tune-up.

Get your alignment straightened out and watch your health and performance soar!


Tip #3

Muscle imbalances around the lower leg can lead to a host of issues up the kinetic chain.
Whether it's something closely related like shin splints, or something farther away such as anterior knee pain, muscle imbalances around your lower leg aren't a good thing.

One of the simplest approaches here is to work on loosening up the gastroc-soleus with mobility and soft-tissue techniques, while strengthening the anterior musculature, most notably the tibialis anterior with toe-raise exercises.

It may not be as sexy as a big squat or deadlift, but improving the balance around your lower leg will keep you healthy for a long-time to come!


Tip #4
acromial process - the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade.
Within the population, you'll see three different types of acromion processes: Type I (flat), Type II (hooked), and Type III (beaked). Type III acromions only comprise one-third of the population, but account for the overwhelming majority of shoulder problems. The take-home message is that from structural standpoint, some lifters will "hold up" better to certain potentially harmful shoulder movements (e.g., upright rows, overhead lifting).

Have a truly great day , everything is possible!
Allan Fine / Fitness/ Lifecoach
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