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Overhead Squat Assessment-Excessive Forward Lean from Ankle Restriction at NASM CES Workshop by Eric Beard

By admin | Published: January 27, 2010
This girl was a participant at a Corrective Exercise Specialist (CES) that I taught for the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) in Calabasas, CA last week. I used a modified version of the overhead squat and goniometry to identify that a movement impairment stemming from the ankle was driving this compensation. She had 5 [...]
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Who Know’s Squat? Corrective Exercise Specialists Do

By admin | Published: May 5, 2009
Things usually start out pretty well for us in life. Warm house, water bed to sleep in, plenty of food, people talk to you, read to you…then you are born and muscular imbalances follow…in children as young as 6 I might add. It can start here… then goes to here.. pretty soon we end up [...]
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