Simple and effective upper body exercises to warm up and strengthen your upper body. Give these a try and see how your golf game improves!
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June 17, 2018
Upper Body Golf Warm Up Exercises With Mini Band
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- core exercises, golf, injury prevention, rehab exercise, scapular stability, upper body exercises, warm up exercises
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June 17, 2018
Lower Body Golf Warm Up Exercises With Mini Band
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- core exercises, exercises for golfers, glute activation, glute band exercises, glutes, golf, golfing, golfing exercises, injury prevention, lower body warm up, mini band exercises, rehab, stretching, warm up exercises
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Try these awesome exercises to strengthen your glutes and core! Not only will you notice a stronger lower body and abdomen, but you might also improve your golf game!
April 24, 2017
Unilateral Training for the Lower Extremity
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- calf raise, hip injury, hip pain, hip rehabilitation, injury prevention, knee injury, knee pain, knee rehabilitation, lunges, reverse deadlift, split squat
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Once you’re able to perform an end-range squat pain-free after an acute knee or hip injury, it is important to progress to single-leg training of the involved limb. This will help to prevent re-injury and restore important movements pattern like the hip hinge for optimal gluteal activation. Try these six exercises below. They should be
March 20, 2017
One Arm Bottoms-Up Kettlebell Press
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If you are having problems with pressing overhead or recovering from a shoulder injury, the 1 Arm bottoms up kettle bell press might be a better alternative for your shoulder health. There are various reasons why a shoulder is not able to go into full shoulder flexion. The shoulder is a very complex joint consisting
January 16, 2017
Conditioning with the Rowing Ergometer
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- cardio, fitness, health, injury prevention, rowing, rowing ergometer, workout
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What is it? The rowing ergometer is an indoor rowing machine used to develop your cardiovascular system, also known as your energy system. It is a machine with a seat, foot rest, handle and a flywheel. It is used by many athletes for different purposes but was initially built for training rowers when they weren’t
December 5, 2016
Proper Nutrition = Faster Rehab
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- faster rehab, health, inflammation, injury, injury prevention, nutrition, rehab, repair
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Proper Nutrition = Faster Rehab The goal of many strength programs is to prevent or minimize injury and increase performance. Programs are not foolproof and can’t account for every mitigating factor. However, when injured there are ways to speed up the healing and rehab process. Every injury to the body will go through 3 stages
November 1, 2016
Do I have a slipped disc?
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- disc buldge, disc herniation, injury prevention, low back pain, sciatica
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Do I have a slipped disc? In short, the answer is NO – our discs don’t ‘slip’. I often get this type of question from patients with back pain and neck pain so I wanted to take some time and explain what our intervertebral discs are, whether or not they ‘slip’ and why they may
September 6, 2016
Baseline Concussion Testing
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- athletic therapy, chiropractic, concussion, exercise, goal setting, health clinic, healthcare, injury prevention, Natural Health, Natural Pain Relief, North Toronto, Personal Training, physiotherapy, posture, prevention, rehab, rehab exercises, safe exercise, Toronto, uptown Toronto
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Baseline Concussion Testing Lawrence Park Health Clinic’s awesome physiotherapist, Clarence, wrote a 3-part series on concussions and concussion management – you can read that here. I wanted to add some information on concussion testing and the importance of getting things going before the season starts in your sport of choice. Concussions are tricky things to
July 25, 2016
The Sitting Epidemic
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- back pain, chiropractic, core rehab, core strength, disc herniation, exercise, good posture, injury prevention, posture, prevention, sitting too much
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The Sitting Epidemic – Do You Sit Too Much? Are you guilty of sitting too much?? Today’s blog provides a brief overview of the harmful effects of prolonged sitting and several solutions to break out of the habit of sitting too long! [dt_sc_hr_invisible] Fact #1: Sitting increases pressure and load on the intervertebral discs in your back.
July 4, 2016
Yoga for Runners
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- back pain, back pain exercises, core strength, core training, exercise, injury prevention, mobility, Natural Pain Relief, run, runners, running, stress relief, stretching, stretching for runners, yoga, yoga for runners
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Yoga For Runners Get the most out of your running season by creating the habit of stretching out properly after every single run! Stretching reduces your risk of injury, increases blood flow and improves flexibility and performance. I have compiled some of my favourite yoga poses and stretches below which cater towards soothing tight quads,