Biomechanics Articles
Martin Haines and his team will be writing regular articles on all things biomechanics
Our core interests are around biomechanics, including injury prevention and sports performance, but obviously this links to a number of different areas such as physiology and neurology and of course has the critical link to all forms of exercise prescription. We have found that Strength Conditioning Coaches, Personal Trainers, Therapists and Sports Coaches are all finding the information valuable. Take a look at some of our Client Testimonials to see for yourself.
Reducing the Risk of injury during Core Stability
In the health and fitness industry, we have probably been seduced by more fads than any other. They seem to come and go so quickly, you can hardly recall them. So, is core stability training just one of those fads or is it here to stay?
Last updated 18-02-2012
Top Tips for the Gym
Bench press
There is some debate around the bench press technique; fact in some circles, the value of the exercise is being questioned. The question here is; how far down should the bar be taken to the chest? This cannot be answered without asking a further question; for what purpose? The reason the bar has been typically taught to be taken to the chest is because in competitive powerlifting the rules say so. There has to be a standard point that can easily be identified by the judges. So in this context it is correct to take the bar down to the chest. In other circumstances, it may not be.
Last updated 18-02-2012
Biomechanical examples discussed
There are a variety of factors that need to be considered when you exercise to make sure it’s performed properly, safely and for maximum benefit. Some of these factors are common knowledge; warm up and cool down, use correct technique, don’t over train, use the right equipment, progress your training sensibly and find a good coach are some. Others are less understood, and one that we will be talking about here is Biomechanics.
Last updated 01-02-2012
Make money with the latest science!
The skills of the Personal Trainer have increased dramatically over recent years. The demand from their clients has driven their development down paths that hadn’t previously been considered. Clients have historically gone to personal trainers to get fitter or lose weight, but as consumers have become more educated, sophisticated and more demanding, so their needs have evolved. Now clients will expect PT’s to provide exercises for stiff or sore backs, as well as asking for advice and exercises for stiff shoulders from poor posture sitting at their desk.
Last updated 21-01-2012
Repetitive motion and biomechanics
Repetitive movements are performed by us all during our everyday life. However, the movements we are required to perform now are quite different from those we were originally designed to perform several million years ago. What were once natural movements performed in a variety of environments for a number of different reasons, have become more static and repetitive in nature as we have changed from active hunter-gatherers to ‘office loungers’. Over a period of only 100 years we have become inactive; going from active work to sedentary office jobs where the main activity is walking from the house to the car and then to the office. When
we are active these days, it’s often only to perform small static movements such as typing, steering and pressing the remote for the TV.
Last updated 21-01-2012
What is all the fascia about?
After having been to a lecture on Fascia by Michol ... @ the Fit pro convention , it got me thinking is this just another very well researched and understood component being adopted by the fitness industry as something new or something that we can get our clients following...
Within the presentation the names, Thomas Myers, Serge Gracovetsky, Louis Schultz and Rosemary feitis were mentioned and worth a read of their work on fascia.
Most of the people attending were fitness based, and Dalcot made a lot of interesting points
The whole emphasis of the presentation was to have everyone thinking about fascia, I have summarised what I personally took away from a biomechanical perspective:
The presentations was very good with the use of well known athletes to emphases the points made of how some athletes can make great use of their fascia to produce movements.
I am thinking that a buzz word will start to appear called “fascial fitness:” which will consider the following
Last updated 20-12-2011
Increase Power by mobilising your nerves
Quads output increases by 14% after 2 x 15 reps of nerve stretching.
Calf and hamstring injuries are commonly caused by tight sciatic nerve. The muscles provide a protective spasm to the nerve during locomotion and if stretched or loaded sufficiently the muscles can spasm enough to cause themselves to tear, or cramp up - which can feel like a tear. By mobilising the nerve it releases the tension in the muscles and reduces the likelihood of this event.
The same principle applies to all nerves. In the golf swing, if the median nerve is tight it will reduce the amount the player can complete his back swing and adopt the best position at the top of his swing.
Last updated 20-12-2011
"Make mine a double.... or a single?"
Functional, multi-joint screening and conditioning has been around for 50 years or more. We have been using those principles for the last 20 years in our clinics and facilities and these principles can have a profound effect on human performance, injury prevention and management. However, after having used them for 10 years we began to realise that functional screening is not the panacea for all ills and there are fundamental areas that it does not address. People still get injured and their performances can still be compromised despite being functionally trained. The problem with the fitness industry in particular is that functional training has only been recently introduced so its not at the point where PTs have been able to work this out themselves yet, its not been around for long enough in this arena. As specialists in rehabilitation and conditioning for elite and recreational sportspeople, we have found that there are huge flaws in only using one type of screening.
Last updated 11-11-2011
Understanding the Bodies Software
Understanding nerves
Nerve have been described as the software of the body and to be able to understand this more thoroughly we have to understand about ‘nerve tension’ and ‘Adverse Neural Tension’. These concepts have been recognised for over 100 years in terms of treating patients clinically, but their full potential has never been understood until now. An analogy with the invention of the wheel is an interesting one. The discovery of nerve tension and it being used for the treatment of injuries is like the wheel being invented and placing it on its side, putting 4 legs around the underside and using it as a table. It makes a great table, but the idea to use it in the way we know it today was ground breaking. The same applies to nerve tension and its application to athletic performance and fatigue relief.
Last updated 09-11-2011
Movement is the key for back pain relief
Back pain will affect 80% of the UK population at some stage of our lives, according to research. It is actually the second largest...
Last updated 18-09-2011
Biomechanics of repetitive movements
How group exercise instructors and personal trainers can protect themselves and their participants/clients against injury.
The way we exercise and work has changed in the last few generations. Our bodies were designed to be hunter/gatherers. Our very physical make-up enables us to hunt, escape, harvest and gather by performing an almost unlimited number of movements like....
Last updated 06-08-2011
Positive Health Article published
Biomechanics for Functional Training, Sports Performance, Strength and Conditioning: Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation and Management
Last updated 02-08-2011
Where has biomechanics been all my life?
This week we caught up with Jo Healy, of the Great Britain Women’s Volleyball Team to find out how biomechanics has helped her career...
Last updated 29-07-2011
Biomechanics for golf
Biomechanical screening and training techniques helps clients improve their biomechanics, flexibility, muscle performance and joint stability......
Last updated 01-11-2010
John Scrivens includes biomechanical screening for athletes
John Scrivens, a Level 5 Biomechanics Coach, is having tremendous success with his Commonwealth Games Athletes. John is the Strength and Conditioning Coach to the Jersey team and has included the Biomechanical Screening as part of their preparation for the Games...
Last updated 28-07-2010
Muscletalk forum
Rachel France has been invited to contribute on the MuscleTalk forum on in the training correctly section...
Last updated 15-07-2010
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