Video Category
Balance
Static Unilateral Farmer Carry March With Kettlebell
HOW: Get set-up with a kettlebell in only one hand holding it by your side near your pocket. Be sure to stay strong in your shoulder blade by pulling it slightly up and back to ‘pack’ your shoulder (see video for cues). While maintaining kettlebell...
Static Bilateral Farmer Carry March With Kettlebell
HOW: Get set-up with a kettlebell in each hand holding them by your sides near your pockets. Be sure to stay strong in your shoulder blades by pulling them slightly up and back to ‘pack’ your shoulders (see video for cues). While maintaining kettlebell position,...
Single Leg Balance With Vertical Head Turns
HOW: Get set-up standing and balancing on one foot. While maintaining your balance, move your head by looking up and down as far as directed or that you feel comfortable with. FEEL: You should feel like your balance is being challenged. If you’re having difficulty...
Lateral Lunge With Bosu
HOW: Get a bosu blue-side-up set up next to you on the side you plan to target first. Perform a lateral lunge by stepping out to the side and onto the bosu followed by bending at your hip and knee while letting your trunk lean...
Single Leg Balance With Ankle Inversion With Basketball Dribble
HOW: Get set-up using a slant board to position your foot into inversion (the arch of your foot tilted up towards the ceiling). While maintaining your foot and toes in-contact with the ground, maintain balance while catching, passing, and dribbling a basketball. FEEL: You should...
Anterior Lunge With Bosu
HOW: Set-up a bosu in front of you within a comfortable distance that you can step onto without losing your balance. Perform a forward lunge onto the bosu and slowly lower yourself down into a lunge position, then return to standing position and repeat. FEEL:...
Anterior And Lateral Lunge With Bosu
HOW: Set-up a bosu in front of you and to the side of the leg you plan to work. Start by taking a forward lunge onto the bosu and slowly control lowering yourself down, then push with your front leg to return to a standing...
Balance Training Can Improve Cutting
There's been a lot of flak given to unstable surface training on objects like the TeraCore by @vicorefitness lately within the rehabilitation community that we think is quite unfair. Balance training on stable and unstable surfaces alike CAN and SHOULD be implemented into your athlete's...
Ankle Woodpecker Variations
The woodpecker exercise is a nice way to train the calf in an eccentric fashion while also challenging ankle stability. Not demonstrated here in this video is the most basic woodpecker, where both feet are on the ground. We have jumped right into single leg...
Soccer Specific Ankle Prehab
Ankle sprains are one of the most common sport injuries, especially in soccer. Getting soccer touches going again is one of my primary goals early in rehab. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch these exercises or perform them until after you get injured! If...