I had a few athletes once come to me during a session with their club team complaining of their backs hurting “like crazy.” Like any normal person would, I asked them when the pain started. For all three of them, the pain started when deadlifting in their PE class (all of them were in the same class). While some may jump to conclusions and start the battle cry for needing high school strength and conditioning coaches, I knew their PE teacher and that they do a decent job teac

There's a few guaranteed things in life. There's life, death, and gravity. Everyone who lives will eventually die. And sadly while some lives mere minutes, one of the only other guaranteed things is gravity. It takes effect on us all, every minute, of every day for the entire duration of our lives. While everyone is impacted by Mean Ol' Mister Gravity, some people have a bad relationship with him and others a great relationship. Another way I've heard this explained is via t

Most people know someone who is a little off, strange, or just downright eccentric. Now I'm not here to talk about your aunt (or uncle), but I do want to talk about the other thing that is eccentric: muscle contraction. Our muscles utilize three different types of muscle contractions in locomotion (moving). Concentric, isometric, and eccentric muscle contractions produce varying forces in our everyday movement to create, hold, and absorb force. A concentric contraction happen