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Total Immersion: Ankle Mobility
Ankle mobility is important for swimming well and with the least drag. Swimming with your feet not pointed behind you means you have two feet that are creating drag as you swim. Sometimes it’s a motor control problem. You tell the swimmer to keep the toes pointed behind them and they imprint it, and just…
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Total Immersion: The Dead Bug
The Dead Bug is a funny name for a pretty important exercise. It is called Dead Bug because you lie on the floor with your arms and legs up in the air, just like how dead bugs look when they are dead and lying on their backs. I first learned the Dead Bug from Original…
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Total Immersion: An Assessment for Swimmers Part I
In my work with swimmers, I’ve come to realize that we, as 21st century creatures, are now coming to the pool with a bunch of adaptations due to our lifestyles that are constraining the ability to swim properly and advance as quickly as they could. Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in the physical rehabilitation…
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Total Immersion: Neck Mobility for Swimming
Neck range of motion is important in swimming. The problems manifest themselves in: Forward head on neck where the neck is stuck with the head in a forward of spine position. This puts your head in a deeper than necessary position which makes breathing hard. If you cannot turn your head enough on either side,…
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Avoiding Car Seat Hell
A user on the mobilitywod forums posted about problems they were having while driving. I can relate. I think all car seats are ergonomically deficient. You’d think someone would have done something better after all this time, but they are terrible. The user was complaining of tight neck and shoulders. Here was my reply: When…
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2 Weeks of Intermittent Fasting
Last Sunday I ended my very short experiment on Bulletproof intermittent fasting. I weighed myself and got the numbers: weight = 155.8lb, body fat % = 21.3%. 2 weeks back when I started, I weighed 154.8 and body fat % of 21.5%. No real move at all. My buddy QuantifiedBob pointed out that I really…
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Trying Intermittent Fasting
Two days ago I decided to try Bulletproof Intermittent Fasting. I had hosed my back and couldn’t really do any workouts as I recovered so my eating requirements are more flexible – perfect time to try intermittent fasting! I am trying to eat within 12noon and 6pm only, taking a BP coffee w/ butter and/or…
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How to Train for Abdominal Breathing and Generating Intra-Abdominal Pressure
I’ve gone through the importance of abdominal breathing in Optimal Breathing: The Case for Diaphragmatic Breathing. In this post, I’ll talk about how to train for it, and then a basic method for training for using your diaphragm and abdomen breathing to generate intra-abdominal pressure (IAP), the optimal way for stabilizing your torso for movements.…
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Optimal Breathing: The Case for Diaphragmatic Breathing
What is optimal breathing? It is much more than just standing around and sucking air in and pushing it out. In my research regarding breathing, western medicine has little to offer about breathing as a solution to health problems. However, it seems that all the knowledge and research comes out of Europe and through the…
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