I am blessed to have the chance to work with so many different groups of people who want to get better.
Last year I had the pleasure of working with an entire high school football team for 4 months. This is a team with a good winning tradition but had been bitten by the injury bug for 2 straight years. After 2 years we have a but eliminated season ending injuries.
Every day in my bootcamp, I work with helping 30-65 year olds stay active, stay injury free and get stronger by keeping themselves flexible.
2 days a week I help people get rid of low back and shoulder pain by rehabilitating them and teaching them how to elongate, lengthen, distract or rotate using a resistance band.
That pretty much covers the entire gamut of people that love being active.
When it comes to flexibility, it comes down when…. Not IF.
I believe there are 2 things that go along ways in helping improve flexibility and decrease injury potential and they both can be easily done using my favorite training tool. Any Guesses??
Here’s why these 5 groups will benefit from band stretching
1. Baby boomer weekend athletes are injury waiting to happen because they are doing high velocity activities with increased momentum while playing with limited joint range of motion and restricted muscle length. As the saying goes, if you’re going to play, you better pay the price to keep your mobility.
2. Working out to drop unwanted fat comes down raising the metabolic rate. The best way to do that is high intensity interval cardio and strength training. The greater your mobility
3. Athletes who want to get faster can do so quickly by getting rid of their own internal resistance. Eliminating this, especially in the hips, take consistent dynamic stretching and assisted lunge reaching. Done regularly, I have seen athletes cut tenths of seconds off their 40′s in a couple of weeks.
4. Continual history of shoulder and low back pain typically comes because people compensate through the shoulders and low back as a result of tight hips and mid back. Make the right joints start moving and the innocent low back and shoulders are free to enjoy life again.
5. Those 50+ fitness enthusiasts that want to keep golfing, playing a little tennis, or doing their morning jog need to understand it is not going to just keep happening unless you keep your body fit for this. In most cases it comes down to lack of mobility and poor integration between the shoulders and hips. The Assisted Lunge Reach Series does a great job of teaching everyone how to get their arms talking to their leg via the trunk which is the way it was meant to happen.
So if you fall into one of these groups… my suggestion is to start stretching with bands and get better.
Training beyond the Bar
Dave Schmitz
www.resistancebandtraining.com
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