Scapular
Basketball Prehab: Exercises for 4 Trouble Spots
The Importance of Basketball Prehab The basketball season causes long-term wear and tear for the unprepared athlete... Some players spend their entire...
How to Prevent Baseball Imbalance and Overuse Injuries
More than 625,000 baseball injuries occur in the United States each year. The most common are shoulder, elbow, groin and hamstring injuries caused by strength or mobility imbalances from overuse. [...]
How to Pair Exercises for a Chest and Back Workout
If you want to build your upper body, you are probably already doing a workout that targets your chest and back. However, performing enough exercises to properly target these two [...]
Core Strength: Not Just the Abdominal Muscles
Training the core is more complicated than simply performing Sit-Ups and engaging the abdominal muscles. A strong core also means strengthening the muscles of the hips, shoulders and spine. Since [...]
How to Keep Your Shoulders Healthy, Part 3: Rotator Cuff Strength
In Parts 1 and 2 of our series on How to Keep Your Shoulders Healthy, we discussed the importance of improving mid-back (thoracic spine) mobility and developing scapular stability. In [...]
Hockey Players: Strengthen Your Shoulders to Avoid Injury
Hockey is an incredibly physical sport, and the intense contact can damage your shoulder if it lacks sufficient strength. Forwards and defensemen must be able to give and take body [...]