Knee pain
The other day, Bill and I were having a discussion at IFAST about training
clients after knee surgery.
If you read a lot of the research
out there, it leads us to believe the following:
1 - If you've
had an ACL tear, even with surgery and rehab, you could be at increased
risk for arthritic changes (especially if you're a female).
2 -
If you've had a partial meniscectomy, you're at an increased risk for
arthritic changes. There's a lot of debate going on about this one,
but they'll generally tell you that 20% is the magic number - more than
20%, wear and tear goes up. Less than 20% removal, it's not as big of
a deal.
But here are my thoughts on the topic (in case you were
interested!) :)
There are two things that people aren't talking
about enough these days
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Youth Soccer
(Note from MR: Brian Grasso is not only a great coach and speaker, but
someone I consider a great friend as well. His passion for helping
kids is second-to-none, and he's someone I will have guest blogging for RTS
on a continuing basis.
Other than possibly Eric Cressey
or Bill Hartman, I can't think of anyone who consistently examines life,
and training, as similarly to myself as Brian does.)
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The Youth Fitness and Sports Training
explosion has happened.
More than $4 billion are pumped into
the niches of personalized training and coaching for young people every
year in the United States alone (Wall Street Journal, November 2004) and
roughly 1 million kids and teens hired a Personal Trainer in 2006
(msnbc.com).
Given those stats and the enormity of both the
problems (youth obesity and sports-related injuries) as well as the market
size (see...
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Lateral Epicondylitis
I'm going to start a new feature section for the blog that I think you're
really going to enjoy.
I know many of you are interested in
what we are doing that gets results. As such, I'm going to start
writing up case studies of clients in our gym that had great success with
our training programs.
Today, we're going to start with SG, who
was suffering from a severe case of lateral epicondylitis, or tennis
elbow. The symptoms came on extremely rapidly, and seemed to
intensify as we increased the intensity of his powerlifiting-focused
program.
We began by attempting to spread his workouts
out over the course of the week. Due to his college schedule, he was
training M-T-Th-F, and he was bench pressing the day after his squatting
session.
However, even after spreading out his training
sessions, he was still suffering from pain, and...
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Movement Quality
One of the topics that I'm constantly harping on at IFAST is that of
movement quality. It's a key component of everything we do, and a
topic that I don't hear discussed all that often within the fitness
industry as a whole.
It's not how far you can move - it's
moving through the appropriate joint(s), or through your current range of
motion.
It's now how much weight you can heave up with sloppy
form. Instead, it's about focusing on technique while simultaneously
driving your weights up over time.
And it's not just
mindlessly blowing through workouts in an effort to burn body fat or lose
weight.
Sure, I want every client to achieve their goals
- it could be losing weight/fat, getting bigger and stronger, or simply
becoming a beast in their respective sport.
But at the
same time, I want to constantly improve...
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