Should we use braces and machines in rehabilitation?
What’s prompted this blurb? Well I’ve had this conversation several times over the past couple of weeks. Albeit with a slightly different approach and with different people, but the basic question posited was the same … should we use ‘external devices’, lets say in rehabilitation practice? Is there evidence-base? Firstly, you’ve got to answer this […]
What IS muscle power?
I had a really interesting discussion over Twitter the other night with some esteemed physios S&C coaches and exercise physiologists about muscle power. It all started off by @tomgoom posting a question; he asked people what their top academic paper on developing muscle power was. Well…all hell broke lose. Ha ha. Seriously, what resulted was a […]
How to rehab the injured limb; strength train the other side..?
It’s a problem – one limb is injured or immobilised in a cast and you know that this will cause significant muscle wasting, or ‘atrophy’ through disuse. But there’s nothing you can do about it…or is there? Did you know: A recent study demonstrated a 10% loss in quadriceps muscle strength of young health males […]
Are Wearables Worth It?
I’m delighted to introduce Dr Alex Rowlands. Alex works at Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit based in Leicester hospital. He’s an expert in the field of Physical Activity and has published and presented his work internationally. We’re so grateful that he’s taken some time out of his busy schedule to talk about wearables – […]
What Is Fatigue?
A short slide show on the very basics of muscle fatigue and how it can impact your training
Are You Injury-Aware?
The global consumer healthcare market will be worth over £730 billion by 2018. Here’s how as a Personal Trainer you can make a difference and capitalise on this market before anyone else. Over 380,000 sports are injuries treated per year; over 80,000 knee replacements happen…bottom line, there’s not enough physiotherapy & exercise support on the […]
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 […]
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 […]