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Push Up With Alternating Leg Positions - What Is The Pelvis Doing? Often when we are performing a push up the focus is on maintaining a neutral spine and having the exercise work our chest and triceps.  The same focus can be said when performing any type of plank or...

Can You Control Your Spine When Training? There is often a big debate around whether one should be able to control their spine when performing exercises and some practitioners will argue that this is very important whereas others will say that it is not important at...

Grooving Your Squat Pattern When it comes to coaching clients to squat, there are often a few different strategies that I will implement and these will differ based on the specific individual presentations. Two of my favourite squat mobilisers that I like to use are...

Do You Have A Disc Injury? Disc injuries more commonly occur in the cervical and lumbar spine. Typically they occur in these regions of the spine because this is where they are generally placed under greater greatest strain. Cervical disc injuries typically occur in...

Seated Goodmorning Exercise This exercise was inspired by a recent article that I read by the Strength Sensei Charles Poliquin who wrote about the Seated Goodmorning.  Prior to this exercise I had never tried this before, often focusing on performing the conventional...

Introducing Sandbag Fitness The Sandbag is probably one of the most versatile and cost effective training tools in the health and fitness market at present due to its design, ease of use and ability to transport. These days my life is super busy due to running 2...

Taking A Look At Your Car Ergonomics                   I was inspired to write this short blog post after some recent enquiries about car vehicle ergonomics.  As an osteopath we are often dealing with people who are...

Get Yourself Squat Ready There are many different ways to warm up and get yourself ready to squat.  Often I will spend 10-15 minutes carrying out a range of mobility and activation drills that focus on ankle, hip and spine mobility, as well as a range of exercises...

Single Arm Side Plank The side plank is another commonly prescribed exercise for teaching bracing strategies and also to get the client to work their lateral chain of muscles (shoulder, obliques and lateral leg muscles). There are many different ways for an individual...

Single Arm Tall Plank The plank is probably one of the most commonly prescribed exercises for teaching and training bracing strategies.  Often I will have my clients perform a plank hold but change things up a little to create a different biomechanical reaction and...

Pull To Push Chop The wood chop exercise has many varieties and in the video below we see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy perform a rope pull to push chop to different destination points. When it comes to performing this exercise there are many...

Principle Four Osteopathy Meets Elite Sports Performance             This week Principle Four Osteopathy were taken through a training and coaching session at Elite Sports Performance by Strength and Conditioning Coach Martyn Girvan in...