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My wife, Amy, is a cradle robber. She swooped down from heaven and plucked me out of the sea when she was 30 and I was 26. The four years in our age gap have produced fun, exciting idiosyncrasies, especially since I am an old millennial and she is a young Gen X’er. One of […]

Out of the four stages of sleep, the deep sleep stage is the most important for repairing your physical body. During deep sleep, your body releases growth hormones to build and repair muscles, bones, and tissue, and immune system functioning. (Patel et al., 2022). In an ideal world, you spend 25% of your sleep time there. […]

  The video above is a (quick and thorough) look at the tremendous power of well-designed mobility work fueled by a detailed assessment. This week, I want to share the process that we use (taught in school and by mobility CE courses from SFMA, The Ready State, and the National Academy of Sports Medicine) so that anyone […]

I have worked in and in support of the fitness industry for the last 12 years. Over this decade, I have observed a classic pattern from many of my clients and friends I call “The Wet February Storm.” It goes like this… Many people get motivated to wipe away the sins of December with a […]

How To Properly Run Up and Down Hills By Coach Johnny B (MS, CFL3, LMT)   Atlanta is the place where the players go to play. It’s also the land of heat, humidity, and HILLS! If you are a runner and do not know how to adjust your biomechanics to tackle the elevation correctly, you […]

This week, we are sharing a mobility routine for all our jiu-jitsu friends who are having difficulty sitting on their knees. The ability to go heel to butt is essential for the sport; without it, your performance will suffer, and you will be dominated. If this is you, start this daily routine and overcome this […]

Fixing Tech Neck & Other Disease of Lack of Movement By Johnny Bouchard (MS, CFL3, LMT) Humans are meant to move. Our bodies are brilliantly engineered to run, walk, carry, push, pull, squat, lunge, and rotate all at the same time. From a survival standpoint, these foundational movements are at the core of our existence. […]

The phrase manual therapy stems from the Latin word manus, which means hand. So anytime someone uses a hand to do something that reduces pain or increases mobility, it’s technically manual therapy. So yeah, when your partner digs their thumb into that knot in your shoulder to mess with you, it’s manual therapy (technically trigger […]

Below is a virtual version of a squat and overhead mobility workshop that we did with our friends at Decatur Strength and Conditioning. We started the workshop by doing two classic ASR mobility assessments. 1. Feet Together Knee Together Squat Assessment for pronation, ankle dorsiflexion, internal tibial rotation, knee flexion, and hip flexion. 2. Shin […]