A blog all about the QL properly known as the Quadratic Lumborum. The QL is one of your deepest abdominal muscles located in your lower back on either side of the lumbar spine. It runs from the lowest part of the ribs to the top part of the pelvis. The actions of the QL are Read More
Category: Stretching & Fixing Pain
How To Sit To Reduce Back Pain – Part: 2 The Fix
Welcome back to part two of “How to Sit to Reduce Back Pain”, last time we talked about why sitting and the pain/damage it causes in the long term. Today we are going to discuss how to sit to help reduce the pain and to fix those aches. So let’s dive into it! In the Read More
How to Sit to Reduce Back Pain Part 1: The Cause
Let’s sit down and talk about how to sit in a good postural position to prevent and reduce achy back pain. You may find it odd but yes, there is a proper way to sit down to avoid low back muscle fatigue. Whether you are at the desk, driving, or even just sitting at home Read More
Easy Warm-up For Any Workout
Diving right into it today. Here’s why, do you struggle with finishing your workout in a timely manner? Do you feel it takes you 2-3 sets of your exercise to start “feeling” the exercise? Do you feel you are wasting time walking on stairs, stretching muscles, and foam rolling before every workout? If you answered Read More
Why Posture is Important
Maintaining a good posture is vital to your overall health. Unknown to many, a good posture is just as essential as a healthy diet, sleeping comfortably and exercising. It ensures that your body is well poised to undertake daily tasks with more vigour and energy, all the while keeping away fatigue. It’s a core pillar Read More
3 Easy Steps to Fix Rounded Shoulders with a Steel Mace: Part 2
How the Steel Mace Can Help? The steel mace is one of the best tools I have found to personally correct and strengthen my own posture and to reinforce proper movement mechanics to maintain that posture. With it’s unique offset balance and length it has help me and many of my clients with similar issues, Read More
Back Pain & How to Fix It: Part 3
Welcome back to our last installment on Back Pain and How to Fix It. If you have read and tried the mobility and core exercises from part 1 & 2, shoot me a message on Instagram or facebook to let me know the results, good or bad I want to hear it all! Now, let’s Read More
Back Pain & How to Fix It: Part 2
Well, now that we are nice and stretched out and worked on some mobility to ease that annoying back pain. Let’s get into how to fix it and prevent it from coming back again. Now a big misconception of back pain is that it’s caused from the back itself, but in reality, most cases the Read More
Back Pain and How to Fix It: Part 1
AN ASTOUNDING NUMBER OF AMERICANS SUFFER FROM BACK PAIN DAILY… According to data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 11.2 percent of American adults (25.3 million people) have experienced some form of pain every day for the past three months. Much of this pain is due to acute causes such as accidents or Read More