Let’s Work on Balance
Good balance is key to preventing falls and maintaining good hip health throughout your life. If you have issue balancing on one leg you will want to incorporate these exercises into your routine |Exercises| Timed Balance Elevated Hip Activation The 4 Cardinal Planes |Timed Balance| Stand with Feet shoulder width apart. Lift one foot off […]
Continue Reading...HIP BALANCE and MOBILITY
Hip Balance and Mobility is key to injury prevention. Hip imbalances can cause lower back pain, knee, and ankle pain. Runners will experience pain and thus not perform well. Lifters may not be able to squat to depth, pull from the ground, kneel, or rotate. Seniors may succumb to falls. Before doing single leg and […]
Continue Reading...Overhead Press for Core Shoulder and Rotator Cuff
AgelessBarbell’s Nancy Flynn and TheWareHouseGym’s Dr Zach McVey bring together the shoulder prehab / rehab series with a primary exercise that will integrate all the movements that we have worked over the past months with a fundamental lift that will develop the shoulders and stimulate the rotator cuff. This is a variation of the Overhead […]
Continue Reading...The Incline Cuban Rotation for Rotator Cuff
How to perform the Incline Cuban as a shoulder Prehab/Rehab movement. Benefit: Shoulder stabilization and prevention of shoulder joint injury. This move stresses the infraspinatus (one of the rotator cuff muscles) which is responsible for external/lateral rotation of the humerus. Note that this variation does not include the actual “press”. The focus is purely on […]
Continue Reading...Inch Worm
Maximize your Warm up with the Inch Worm! |Benefit | This is a three in 1 exercise that works stability and mobility of the shoulder; activates the core; works hamstring flexibility and mobility. It can be done as part of a dynamic warmup or at the end of a workout to work your shoulder stabilization. […]
Continue Reading...Hollow Body Hold
Fun session today with Kimberly at the Pilates on the Deck ,The Fitness Center at South Shore Harbor. Hollow body hold is a great core strengthening exercise that anyone can learn to do. This motion develops a tight and stable core and is the basis of many exercises including pull ups. Core exercise used in […]
Continue Reading...Rotational Pushup
A must add to your warmup routines. Not an actual push up, this exercise servers as a great core and shoulder strengthener. A fun challenge! |Benefit | Excellent Stability and Mobility Exercise for the Shoulder. Strengthens the shoulder joint and rotator cuff. |How to do | Start in Push up Position (Plank). Core tight […]
Continue Reading...Do your feet love your shoes?
For my Walk / Run Saturday this morning I donned a pair of shoes that I had purchase about a year ago just after I stopped participating in races. Ahhhh – the feeling of a new pair of shoes! I had been walking in my old shoes for too long. I am not an expert […]
Continue Reading...Scapular Retraction / Rotator Cuff Internal and External Rotation
Rotator Cuffs injuries are quite common. Let’s continue our shoulder series with some exercises for scapular retraction as well as internal/external rotation of the rotator cuff. Join Coach Zach McVey and me for a demonstration of the exercises along with pointers on proper technique. Exercises include: Incline T’s Incline Y’s Floor W’s Floor Y, W, […]
Continue Reading...SHOULDER WARMUP and RANGE of MOTION
AgelessBarbell’s Nancy Flynn and TheWareHouseGym’s Dr Zach McVey take you through a Shoulder Warm Up and Range of Motion Series that is appropriate for all ages. | Dr McVey’s Shoulder Warm Up |1. Elbow Circles: 1 set, 10 -12 Reps2. Shoulder Circles: 1 set, 10 -12 Reps3. Over and Backs: 1 set, 10 -12 Reps4. […]
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