Episode 342: Load Sequencing Fault: Deadlift
Hey MWoders, We are back after some mental health days, thanks for your patience! We are deep into working on mobilitywod V3.0 and will be posting later this week about ideas you’d like to see. Start...
View ArticleEpisode 345: The Bottom Up Set Up, Pulling – part 2
Hey Mwodies, Today’s mission is to further our discussion about better, more consistent pulling. This time, we are working from the bottom up, instead of from the top backwards. Now clearly, athletes...
View ArticleEpisode 351: The One Joint Rule
Hey Performance Freaks, Today’s Mwod mission is a simple way to think about spinal faulting. Under load, during movement, or in resting (sitting/standing) we want to consider the spine as a system....
View ArticleWhy Sitting Wrecks Your Mad Hip Action
Hey Mwoders, Lately at the SFCF Lab, we’ve been noticing the impact of lots of sitting on many of our best athletes. Part of the problem is knowing that you have a problem. Imagine keeping your...
View ArticleAdaptation Error: Don’t Sleep on Your Stomach & The Right Bed
Hey MWodies, This episode is dedicated to a friend in Australia with chronic low back pain. (You know who you are…) Let’s make a simple equation: Correct Movement + Right Lifestyle (nutrition, sleep,...
View ArticleTorque and Trunk Stability Part 1: How to Stand
Hey Mwodies, Today’s mission is going after two goals: 1) When I see athletes in the clinic with extension based back pain, those athletes rarely know how to stand effectively. 2) We’ve got to better...
View ArticleWhy Put Your Kid at A Movement Disadvantage?
Hey MWoders, Today’s episode is a realty check about our human nature. Over the course of the last 2.5 million years, you have evolved to have your heel flat on the ground (or a flat surface). You are...
View ArticleJill Miller Smashes Your Guts! (and psoas, and tacked down viscera, and...
Hey Leopard Kind, Today’s mission is amazing and one of my absolute new favorites (I’ve been hitting it everyday and yes, I’ve stopped feeling like I’m going to black out in the back of the pain cave.)...
View ArticleJill Miller Diaphragm Evolution Part 3: Eccentric Loading
Hey Leopards, Today’s mission wraps up the Jill Miller breathing mechanics cycle. Mastress Miller is a badass to say the least and she was adamant about showing these last three days of info to the...
View ArticleCreating a Stable Low Back with Better Hip Mechanics
Hey MWodies, Today’s mission is a good example of solving a very common low back problem by changing some hip mechanic motor control cues. Turns out, creating a stable, high torque hip position...
View ArticleThe QL Is NOT a Bone…Even in THE Matt Chan
Hey Mwodies, We are back in business! Book is edited and sent to printers! Release date is still set for April 23. That beast turned out to be 400 pages, 100k words, and 4k photos. With all this...
View ArticleThe Hypermobile Amongst Us: Spine Edition
Hey Legion, Today’s episode is a primer about creating stability in those pesky athletes that aren’t stiff (yes, they exist). Go ahead and ask anyone that is hypermobile and they will tell you that...
View ArticleSpinal Loading Error, You Can’t Unbend-Bent
Hey Leopards, Today’s mission explores a typical spine loading error we often see in our athletes during pulling. In short, we are always trying to optimize spinal organization and minimize the...
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