Focus: Single Leg Stability – The toe touch test looks at the entire posterior chain of muscles that go from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. I like to use one exercise for each major movement pattern, squat, hinge, etc. to make sure we aren’t missing anything, especially for a generalized program like this one.
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Welcome to Mad Dawg Style programming! These free monthly programs show what I think a safe and “minimum effective dose” of strength training can look and feel like. These programs are meant to show the implementation details of my Movement Manifesto.
A squat is ankles, knees and hips, flexing and extending, simultaneously, with a neutral spine.
Over the past few months, I’ve been playing with some workouts that I think you will like. The theme has been in a nutshell: “Embrace the constraints,*” i.e. how do you train consistently during a pandemic with and without unsafe air quality. Basically, what I’ll call Online Prison Workouts. Both […]
To paraphrase a fellow river guide’s saying about flipping boats, the world is divided into three kinds of people: People who have had back pain, those who will have back pain and those who are having back pain as I type this. I make light, but back pain is no […]
The shoulder is one of the most mobile joints in the body. As such, many injuries of the shoulder joint present as a lack of functional range of motion (ROM) and/or pain while in a normal range of motion. Nearly every athlete I see over 40 has some sort of […]