Mike Reinold

One of the many things I look at during my comprehensive assessment process is the movement quality of raising your arms overhead. The information you gather on the person’s ability to perform such a basic task is often invaluable when designing someone’s rehab or training program.

I’m going to admit something that may come as a surprise to you. Corrective exercises don’t always work for me. Here is why.

A combined approach including self-myofascial exercises, stretching, and ankle mobility exercises to improve dorsiflexion.

Steve Long, of Smart Group Training, discusses how to integrate the FMS into group training to create individualized programming.

This week’s stuff you should read comes from Perry Nickelston, Body in Mind, and Science Daily.

I am often asked by students or people attending one of my seminars, “what is the one thing you do that you find works the best.” I wish it were that simple. I have been reflecting on this question for several months, but I think I might have an answer.

There is one more reason that you may be struggling with this in addition to the lack of strength and dynamic stability that I previously discussed that centers around mobility.

As the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) continues to grow more popular, many people are looking for suggestions for corrective exercises based on someone’s FMS results.  My friend Joe Heiler, who runs the SportsRehabExpert website that I am quite fond of, has a great guest post this week on some of his favorite corrective exercises.   [...]