Feet are the cornerstone of what the rest of your body’s gonna do. Why? Because that’s the only two contacts you have at the ground. So as the feet go, the rest of the body goes. Your feet are designed to provide a stable base for you to do anything from – from walking to […]
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Hi there, Mark. Brian. We’re coming to you from Fitness4LifePT, and we’re gonna talk to you this month about balance exercises. Why? Because balance is good, and if you don’t have balance, you might fall and hurt yourself and then come in here, which we’d love to see you, but we’d rather you not hurt
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This month what we’re going to talk about is glute exercises, or the backside. When we look at the glute area, that mid portion by the pelvis, kind of the center of the body, everything from the ground up goes through that area. Everything from the top down goes through that area. So it’s kind
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What we’re going to talk about today is a prime movement that everybody should be able to do because whether they realize it or not, and they do it in everyday life. That movement is called a deadlift. What people don’t realize, as soon as you say deadlift, they think of going in their gym,
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What I want to talk to you about this month is something new we are offering here at the clinic. It is called a Functional Movement Screening. This is a test consisting of seven different movement patterns that are based on primitive patterns, meaning primitive patterns are how we all learned to get up from
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Mark and Brian coming at you for Fitness4Life. Happy holidays to you all. What we’re going to talk about today is ankles, and the reason we’re going to talk about ankles is because the research shows that a lack of ankle mobility can cause all kinds of problems from your foot and ankle, to your
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Wishing everybody happy holidays and with the first of the year, everybody wants to lose weight. It is always the number one resolution. So we’re going to talk a little bit about that. Typically what happens, you go to a doctor’s office and they take a BMI. All that really is measuring is height and
Is there something you can do before you have surgery to help you heal faster or progress quicker? Absolutely there is. Pre-habilitation, or prehab, exercises are just as important as after you have surgery. Okay, so let’s talk shoulders for example. There’s a lot of people getting shoulder surgeries. Some of the doctors now, and
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