“It’s All in the Hips!”: Your guide to healthy and powerful hips
The hip complex is the primary link in the lower extremity kinetic chain. It is comprised of major muscle groups and dense bony structures that are responsible for making powerful muscular contractions, maintaining pelvic balance while walking and running, and for integrating the torso with the lower body. Accordingly, the hips can perform multi planar motions including flexion (high knee...
Periodizing workouts decades before P90X
Understanding the concept of periodization is essential for athletes and amateurs alike. The end goal of this approach is to be more efficient with your time, while striving to obtain athletic skill, build lean mass, burn fat, and improve strength, power, and/or stamina. Elite athletes, strength coaches, and exercise physiologists have embraced this training theory since Romania and the Soviet...