Personal Training, S&C & Injury
Is there a lack of communication between fitness and healthcare professionals? What do you think? A key aim of my business is to encourage and facilitate communication between fitness and healthcare professionals. Why? Well, it’s naive to think, for example that patients undergo a course of physiotherapy treatment for their injury in isolation without taking […]
Ski Conditioning [SALE]
For a limited time only, we are offering a 66% discount on the purchase the NMSki Ski Conditioning Programme. So, if you need to get in to shape, quickly tune up your muscles and do more than just hope you don’t get injured on the slopes then this is for you! Come on over to […]
Skiing; Can we really prevent injuries? Part III
Preventing Injuries in Skiing; Part III In the last article we looked at how you can build your muscle capacity to be fast and strong. We also covered how you can do this ‘properly’ so that you’re effort are more effective and have much quicker effects! Here we’re going to take it out of the […]
Skiing: Can we really prevent injury? Part I
This is the first of a series of 3 articles. Here we look at how our muscles need to perform to help keep us injury free on the slopes. In Parts II and III we’ll get to the exercises: what to do and how. Skiing is a dangerous, silly activity. Why would anyone want to […]
Strength isn’t Everything!
How important is strength? I’ve been theorising, speaking, writing for a several years now that strength isn’t THE most important factor in injury avoidance and rehabilitation. I’m not saying that it’s not important at all – indeed it is, however, the ability to activate the musculature rapidly and develop a ‘meaningful’ amount of force very […]
Knee Replacement
Knee Replacement Knee replacement surgery – also called ‘arthroplasty’, basically involves replacing a damaged, or, ‘worn-out’ knee with an artificial one. It’s a very common operation, more than 70,000 knee replacements are carried out in England and Wales each year, and the number is rising. Knee replacements are usually performed because of severe pain caused […]
How much rehabilitation is enough?
How much rehabilitation is enough after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury? You’ve ruptured your ACL, had surgery (or extensive conservative therapy) and gone through a heap of hard rehabilitation. How do you know if you’re ready to get back sport and activities? It’s a question that clinicians face every day. What do we use to […]
Traning Muscle Power
Training for power WHAT IS MUSCLE POWER? What do we mean by muscle power? Mechanical power can be defined as the rate of work or the force multiplied by the velocity of movement. i.e.: Power = Force x Velocity Therefore, in order to become more powerful, we must address both parts of this equation. You […]
Neuromuscular Training #2
Neuromuscular Training; Part 2 Okay, so last time here at Get Back To Sport we looked at Neuromuscular Training from a resistance training perspective [see here]. We considered the necessity for a heavy load and concentration on maximal, short, explosive muscle contractions to train speed and quick force generation. Given that injuries happen exceptionally quickly, […]
Neuromuscular Training
Neuromuscular Training; the answer to all ills..? ‘Neuromuscular training’ has received a lot of attention in the media recently, especially with reference to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee and how to avoid injury. What’s an ACL? See here for an article on the ACL and how you injure it. In this Get […]