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06 Jan How to Return to Deadlifts After Back Pain

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Core, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Lower Body, Physical Therapy by zlongdpt

If you’ve had an episode of intense low back pain, you know how scary dealing with that can be. Quite often, athletes are given poor advice when it comes to rehabbing their back. This leads to them feeling fragile and scared to return to the...

26 Dec Increase Your Bench Press by Avoiding These Five Mistakes

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Mobility, Upper Body by zlongdpt

There are a lot of factors in the bench press that can make or break your success in the movement. If you want to increase your bench press you need to be aware of the things that can go wrong. These might sacrifice your strength potential,...

26 Aug The Best Drills to Improve Your Kipping Pull-up Mechanics

Posted at 08:00h in Blog, Core, CrossFit, Exercises, Mobility, Upper Body by zlongdpt

The kipping pull-up is often a polarizing debate in the fitness community. I've written about this many times, and my viewpoint is that when done properly, the kipping pull-up is a good upper body pulling plus conditioning exercise (read this article for more). The shoulder...

05 Aug Can I CrossFit After a SLAP Tear?

Posted at 06:00h in Blog, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Mobility, Physical Therapy, Upper Body by zlongdpt

One of my favorite diagnoses to treat in CrossFit athletes is SLAP tears. Quite frequently, athletes have been told their only option is surgery. But, many athletes with SLAP tears in their shoulders can successfully rehab back to full shoulder health and performance without needing...

22 Jul How to Fix Shoulder Pain With Kipping Pull-ups

Posted at 08:56h in Blog, Core, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Mobility, Physical Therapy, Upper Body by zlongdpt

One of the most common problems I treat with CrossFit athletes is shoulder pain with kipping pull-ups. This injury can happen for several different reasons, as I discuss with my Performance Plus Programming partner, Pamela Gagnon. For athletes struggling with Kipping mechanics, join thousands of athletes...

12 Jul When Can I Squat After Shoulder Surgery?

Posted at 08:54h in Blog, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Mobility, Physical Therapy, Upper Body by zlongdpt

One of the first questions that CrossFit, power lift, or Olympic weightlifting athletes ask me after a shoulder surgery such as a rotator cuff or labrum repair is “when can I squat after shoulder surgery?” With many shoulder surgeries, the shoulder position required to get set...

24 May Sit Squats for Better Squat Control

Posted at 13:51h in Blog, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Lower Body, Mobility by zlongdpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SMjGP1LEmw Originally posted on OnwardCharlotte.com VIDEO TRANSCRIPT OF SIT SQUATS: Today, I'm going to talk about the one squat variation that you should have all of your clients do, and that is the sit squat, which is a relatively simple looking squat variation, but it really works individuals...

11 Feb Heart Rate Variability For Athletes

Posted at 15:56h in Blog, CrossFit, Exercises, Physical Therapy by zlongdpt

In recent years, the fitness world has been slowly adopting the trend of measuring heart rate variability (HRV). HRV is a means of assessing an athlete’s readiness to train and overall recovery. But is it useful? And how do we measure HRV? Let’s discuss… Heart rate...

07 Jan THE BEST HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY EXERCISES

Posted at 16:00h in Blog, Core, CrossFit, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Lower Body, Mobility, Running by zlongdpt

Before discussing hamstring flexibility, we need to talk about testing hamstring flexibility. Many athletes believe their hamstrings are tight. But, often they have all the hamstring flexibility they need to perform all of their sporting activities. If an athlete passes the following tests, they do NOT...

26 Nov The Best Dead Bug Variations You Need To Try

Posted at 01:00h in Blog, Core, Exercises, Injury Prevention, Mobility, Physical Therapy by zlongdpt

Note from Zach: Huge thanks to Kelvin King for writing this article. Kelvin has a ton of amazing exercise variations, like the dead bug exercises he shows below. Be sure to follow him! A little rant: I love dead bugs. However, their relationship to specific sports performance...