Three Common Dysfunctions That Lead to ACL Injuries in Female Athletes
Strengthen your athletes the right way and teach them how to move properly.
Injury Reduction for Football: The Ankle Joint
A look at the fan's perspective of injuries in pro football and some preventive strategies for a few of them.
Clint Smith: Healthy Rotator Cuffs
A video explanation of the exercises I practice for the rotators.
Stability Is Your Problem...You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Your weak points may not always be a strength issue.
How to be a Superman with Your Knees
I was told that I had a twelve- to eighteen-month recovery ahead of me and that I would never have 100 percent use of my leg again.
Seven Exercises for Rehabbing Your Ankle Sprain
Sprained your damn ankle again? The worst part is getting it back to full strength, but with these seven exercises, you can cut your rehab time in half.
Restoring Joint Function
When squatting or in any movement, your joints should move through all three planes to some degree.
Disable Your Strength Limits, Focus on Pain
Take the time to fix your aliments and you'll be thanking yourself for those three weeks that gave you continued years of pain-free training.
Band Pull-Apart Super Series for Healthy Shoulders
One of the biggest issues we face at our gym is shoulder health.
Julia Ladewski's Assessment with Mike Robertson
Watch as Julia explains what she learned after her trip to see Mike Robertson.
You Can’t Get Jacked if You’re All Jacked Up: How to Warm Up Your Clients (or Yourself) in 15 Minutes or Less
All you need is five minutes to foam roll, five minutes to do the breathing and bracing, and five minutes to do the dynamic warm up and you’re all set!
Facts Needed to Prevent Hamstring Strains
Once you've experienced a hamstring strain, you wish nothing more than for it to never have happened or at least for it to never happen again.
Death of Static Stretching?
Developing an active and full range of motion (ROM) in our relationships between muscles and joints is vastly important for optimum performance.
Three-Dimensional Hip Strength for Performance and Injury Prevention
A stable and optimal hip can produce force in all three dimensions of movement—flexion/extension, abduction/adduction, and internal/external rotation.
EFS Classic: Flexibility/Mobility: An elitefts™ Roundtable Discussion
With Jim Wendler, Mark McLaughlin, Bob Youngs, Alwyn Cosgrove, Tom Deebel, Jason Ferruggia, Julia Ladewski, Dave Tate, and Mike Hope.
Training Around Back Pain
The bottom position of a squat or deadlift is where the lumbar spine is most vulnerable.
A Twist on 5/3/1 for a Recovering Weightlifter
I don't take any credit for this but instead give credit to the mind who published his idea for the 5/3/1 program—Jim Wendler.
How to Use the Sled for Virtually Everything
How many of you in the "elitefts™ family" have a sled, Prowler®, or homemade version of one of these?
Injury Prevention Series: IT Band Syndrome
Few sayings are more sagacious than the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Rolling Pins: Not Just for Bread Dough
In this article, I will show you how to increase the range of motion further in your upper body to get the most out of all your upper body movements like the bench, row, shoulder press, and chin-up.