I now have the privilege of uploading videos to YouTube that are longer than 15 minutes. I am guessing that I have passed a certain number of uploads and maintained a positive status with You Tube. So basically I have not uploaded any iphone videos of a Bruins broadcast or anything like that. I did recently post a series of videos on You Tube giving a basic overview of the OPT Model over the course of five videos. Visit my YouTube channel if you want to see them http://youtube.com/theericbeard. You probably notice that I have been investing my time outside of my blog lately I logged in last week to post and spent an hour fixing the typos in my last post. Sheesjh! What a stinker! My apologies for letting that go out. The content was good but what a mess! So that is fit for public consumption and worth a peak when you have time

More importantly is that I uploaded an entire DVD of mine to You Tube. It is finishing processing right now. The DVD is actually the prologue installment for my DVD series Secrets and Staples of Training the Athletic Shoulder. (of course available at http://athleticshoulder.com ) it is 54 minutes long and has some greta stuff in it if I do say so myself. Please watch it and let me know what you think! I am confident that you will find it helpful.

Thanks for reading!

Eric Beard
CEO A-Team
Corrective Exercise Specialist
AthleticShoulder.com
http://facebook.com/theericbeard
http://youtube.com/theericbeard

• September 14, 2009 -- Secrets of Training the Athletic Shoulder: Corner Activatons from AthleticShoulder.com (0)
• September 8, 2009 -- Corrective Exercise and Performance Enhancement for The Shoulder Complex Has Evolved (0)
• March 3, 2011 -- Shoulder Dysfunction and Contra-Lateral Sacroiliac Joint Health in a Tennis Player (0)
• November 5, 2009 -- Corrective Exercise for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? (2)
• September 25, 2009 -- Teaching an NASM Personal Trainer Workshop in Atlanta Thinking about HFPN.com (0)
• January 22, 2012 -- Knock The Rust Off With Some Core Stability Work (0)
• January 19, 2012 -- Vertical Core Stability Training (0)
• January 12, 2012 -- Quick Tip to Improve Dorsiflexion (making your calve stretch more effective) (0)
• January 7, 2012 -- Can You Give Me Some Advice? (0)
• January 4, 2012 -- Does 30+30+30 Really Equal 90? (0)

It has been a busy week or two for me after Memorial Day weekend, time with the family and teaching an Essentials of Personal training Workshop for the National Academy of Sports Medicine in Chicago last weekend. Fun group, we had 68 students from all parts of the mid-west and beyond. I am off to Atlanta this week then the Kettlebell and Corrective Exercise workshop in Natick the weekend after 6/13 www.jenbrickey.com/products for more info.

Quick tid-bits on that… .4 CEUs NASM and NSCA, Free Food! 25% off Ketteblls for attendees through Perform Better and it is also sponsored by dotfit.com can’t wait!! Oh yeah…corrective exercises for Kettlebells you wont’ find anywhere else...we are filming a video of it if you can’t make it and will release the DVD soon after.

One very good questions for my readers to think about, that was posed by Don, A long time NASM junkie, at least I think he asked it:)

“Should you keep your abdominals drawn in (TrA activated) at the end of the eccentric phase of a stability ball crunch (when the spine is in full extension)?”

Feel free to answer with a comment below if you have an opinion.

The real reason I wrote this post today is this…

I recorded a short 3 minute 31 second video today reviewing The Rotator,

Click on the link below for more information on the product.

http://therotater.com/

I am also doing some work on my website, a slow process and may need to recruit some help:)

Thanks for reading and have great night!

Eric Beard
Athletic Performance Enhancement Specialist
Corrective Exercise Specialist
theericbeard.blogspot.com
www.ericbeard.com

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It has been a busy week or two for me after Memorial Day weekend, time with the family and teaching an Essentials of Personal training Workshop for the National Academy of Sports Medicine in Chicago last weekend. Fun group, we had 68 students from all parts of the mid-west and beyond. I am off to Atlanta this week then the Kettlebell and Corrective Exercise workshop in Natick the weekend after 6/13 www.jenbrickey.com/products for more info.

Quick tid-bits on that… .4 CEUs NASM and NSCA, Free Food! 25% off Ketteblls for attendees through Perform Better and it is also sponsored by dotfit.com can’t wait!! Oh yeah…corrective exercises for Kettlebells you wont’ find anywhere else...we are filming a video of it if you can’t make it and will release the DVD soon after.

One very good questions for my readers to think about, that was posed by Don, A long time NASM junkie, at least I think he asked it:)

“Should you keep your abdominals drawn in (TrA activated) at the end of the eccentric phase of a stability ball crunch (when the spine is in full extension)?”

Feel free to answer with a comment below if you have an opinion.

The real reason I wrote this post today is this…

I recorded a short 3 minute 31 second video today reviewing The Rotator,

Click on the link below for more information on the product.

http://therotater.com/

I am also doing some work on my website, a slow process and may need to recruit some help:)

Thanks for reading and have great night!

Eric Beard
Athletic Performance Enhancement Specialist
Corrective Exercise Specialist
theericbeard.blogspot.com
www.ericbeard.com

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We stayed at the Omni hotel right at the CNN Center! It was awesome!

This was practically the view from my room!

I have attended the ACSM Summit in the past, but this was my first time presenting there. It was 100% my pleasure to deliver the presentation Corrective Exercise for Shoulder Impairments with Patricia “Skippy” Mattson

Skippy is an ATC/PT at the Children’s Hospital of Atlanta and works mostly with high level young athletes.

She is swimmer herself and involved with the High Performance USA Swimming Team. She has over 30 years of in the trenches experience, is a blast to teach with and feisty to boot:) We had communicated via email and telephone to get our presentation together, only having met in person about 3 hours before our first presentation! She was so easy to work with, a real joy and fountain of information. We had about 85 people in our first lecture and over 100 at the second delivery. The second time we presented was at 6:15 on a Friday night…talk about a tough time slot! But people packed in and sat on the floor and were in the hall way to hear what we had to say. We went in depth covering anatomy, impairments, movement assessments and corrective exercise strategies. The groups were very responsive and laughed and had fun while they learned! At least two students came to both lectures (even though they were exactly the same!) because they liked it so much!

Healthy Learning also video taped the presentation and it will be available for sale soon. just like they did at IDEA for me last year with;

http://tinyurl.com/9xvy8f the link if you want to check it out…

Skippy and I connected with a group of kinesiology students and faculty at the Summit and were graciously invited to their reception dinner on Friday night

We sat with the students and talked about their plans for the future and their experience at the Summit. There were 6 students at my table, 5 juniors who were all coming back to graduate at Penn State next year and 1 senior who was headed of to get her Doctorate in Physical Therapy after her graduation this spring. I did not get to speak with the other 15 students or so because I had to run (literally!) to the airport to catch my flight home. It was very gracious of them to invite us! Thank you Lori and Michelle!

I also had the privilege to introduce and assist a good friend and colleague of mine, and creator of the Rollaxer product, Scott Mitchell.

www.rollaxer.net

It is worth checking out the link, if I HAD to choose only one myofascial release product…this would be IT!

Here is a picture of Scott and his wife…

Scott delivered a presentation entitled “Knot So Stressed” which covered myofasical release and corrective exercise. he did an awesome job! over 200 people attended his two lectures combined!

On top of all this Scott and I got to see an Atlanta Thrashers game!

They were down 4-1 and came back to win 5-4 in a shootout! We had great seats and lots of fun! They played the NY Rangers so there were plenty of New Yorkers there and I got heckled all night for my Red Sox shirt that I had on. Love the Yankees fans!

Thanks for reading!

Eric Beard
Athletic Performance Enhancement Specialist
Corrective Exercise Specialist
theericbeard.blogspot.com
www.ericbeard.com

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Impingement is right up there as well statistically…

Question; can we prevent overuse injuries in elite junior tennis players?

Or do we just rehab or surgically repair it all the time?

maybe we should be doing this BEFORE an injury instead of after…

Tennis elbow is also a common diagnosis for tennis players and also an overuse injury. Where does tennis elbow come from? The elbow? Interesting that one study indicated that 64% of those who were diagnosed with tennis elbow also had a shoulder injury….hmmmm.

According to Wikipedia;

Tennis elbow is a condition where the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender. It’s a condition that is commonly associated with playing tennis, though the injury can happen to almost anybody.^[1]

The condition is more formally known as lateral epicondylitis (“inflammation to the outside elbow bone”)^[2], lateral epicondylosis, or simply lateral elbow pain.

You could shoot yourself up with cortisone once every couple of months for a year like this guy did to treat his tennis elbow (obviously don’t do that unless you are a licensed professional)…

…or you could try and prevent it or treat it alternatively. Your choice.

Question; during which aspect of the game of tennis is one most likely to injure their shoulder?

a) backhand strokes
b) forehand strokes
c) serving
d) during dynamic flexibility drills in the warm-up

What is your answer?

Thanks for reading have to get ready for my next client, a fellow massage therapist who has shoulder pain!

Do you think I will perform an integrated assessment and prescribe corrective exercise for him?

Eric Beard
Athletic Performance Enhancement Specialist
Corrective Exercise Specialist
theericbeard.blogspot.com
www.ericbeard.com

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