I will be in Minneapolis this weekend teaching an FMS level 1 workshop.
Home for a week
Off to Danville, VA for the FMS Summit and then the Advanced Corrective Exercise workshop and then off to Minneapolis again for the HKC.
Fun stuff
Training today:
Prep work - ASLR, Arm Bar
16 kg Get-up x 3+3, 3+3
16 kg SLDL x 5+5
Behind the Back Deadlift
135 x 5
185 x 5
225 x 5, 5
24 kg One arm Long Cycle Clean and Jerk
One minute Right arm + One minute Left arm + One minute rest x 5 sets
Stretch
Behind the back DLs are very interesting (my friend Shawn Reed recently spurred my interest in this lift).
Hindsight...
I had made a decision some time ago to try to open the lumbar fascia etc... and I would say now that that was not the right call. Flexion continues to be a bad idea and I will return to deadlifting, maintaining the hip opening I am doing etc...
Mr Brett Jones,
ReplyDeleteI have a question. I would like to know if it is ok, along with the chop and lift, to use the 'gluteal amnesia test' screen in the Secrets of Core training DVD, as a corrective exercise to teach someone to 'fire' his/her glutes? Is this a good idea or not?
The Cook Hip Lift or Leg Lock Bridge can be used a corrective to get the glute firing but be sure to use the tennis ball between the thigh and ribs to keep the hip extension honest.
ReplyDeleteI think opening that are all depends on HOW it is done.
ReplyDeleteForcing it open I think is a bad idea.
Trainers run and scream when they see me have clients do very light rounded back deadlifts, but mysteriously their back pain clear ups many times.
Again, I am not having them do it in pain, just some slight movement that is the opposite of where their low back is all day---frozen solid in a chair. And most time (not always) their movement afterwards is much better. If it is not better, I don't have them do it.
I have read McGills work and it showed REPEATED flexion was bad. I doubt a few reps they do will ever get close to that many.
Just my bias.
Safe travels!
Rock on
Mike T Nelson PhD(c)
Extreme Human Performance