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Hey, it’s Jennifer. Today I want to talk about wrist pain, especially with overhead movements, like weight holding and stuff like that. If your wrists hurt when you’re holding a barbell or weight overhead, it might actually be coming from your shoulder. Why is that? When you’re holding something overhead, ideally, you want the weight […]

Hey, it’s Jennifer. Today I want to talk about enhanced error correction for working on sub optimal movement patterns. Basically, that just means whatever pattern you’re trying to fix, you first make it worse in order to work on it. I’ll show you what I mean with the example I most often use, which is

  I’m going to take you through a really quick core strength sequence that I like to use with runners. You could tack this on to the end of your run, or maybe the beginning as a warm up. As runners, we obviously want to have a strong core, but we also want to think

When you are postpartum and you are making the decision of whether or not you’re feeling like you’re ready to return to run, one thing that can be really helpful to look at is just your basic strength. When I’m working with my postpartum clients in the clinic, we go through a full readiness screen,

Hey, it’s Jennifer, I want to talk today about what you should be shooting for with pull ups and what good indicators are that, even if you can get your chin over the bar, maybe a band or a box, or some sort of assistance would be useful to help you maintain good technique. A

Hi, this is Jennifer. Today I want to talk about knee pain and how sometimes working on your feet can actually help with your knee. The knee often is the victim of things going on in the hip. You can check out the blog on the Glute Meade, if that’s something you’re interested in learning

  Hey, it’s Jennifer. Today I want to talk about bracing your core and how it’s about more than just flattening out your back when you’re in a hollow position, which is what a lot of us, including myself start out with when we’re working on ab strength. Let’s say you’re holding a hollow position

  If you are returning to run postpartum, we have talked about in some previous blogs, looking at assessing your strength postpartum, and then assessing your balance as well. The third thing I look at is impact. We want to assess our body’s ability to respond to impact before we start our return to run,

  Hey everyone, I wanted to spend just a little bit of time today talking about your calf muscles, and why it should be a priority if you are a runner. When we think about running, and strength training, we often hear a lot about strengthening our hips, and our glutes and making sure we

I’m going to talk to you all today about balance: why it’s important if you’re a runner, some changes that can happen to your balance if you are postpartum, and, if you do find some deficits, how you can work on your balance. Balance is important as a runner, because if you have decreased balance,