Can anyone recommend a book which tells you ideal posture and gives you things like flexibility tests and ideal range of motion for specific joints (for specific sports)? My weightlifting coach is a gold mine for this sort of this stuff but he’s so busy with many athletes that I have trouble getting a chance to talk to him for more than 10 seconds at a time. I have seen one in a hospital library and I could go back there to get some ideas, but it would be out of my way, so hopefully someone here can tell me.
That is the book that I came across in the library, it was an old copy about 20 years old! I had a pm from another member recommending it to me as well. Thanks for the recommendation.
the above link links to a great book with a good section on muscle range of motion testing, with corrective strengthening and stretching exercises.
Also there is a section on common postural problems, such as knock knees, hyperextended knees, lordosis etc, with correctional stretching and strengthening.
The author states postural probs are due to weakness as well as tightness.
Have you read Shirley Sahrrman’s book “Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes”? I’m starting it right now and it’s definetly a good (but tough, at least for me) read. I ordered it after reading Mike Boyle’s “Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities” book (this is another coach’s gem) where he references the book several times. Just curious.
Speed, I thumbed through it at a Barnes and Noble a while back. It looks like it has some good information in there for when things are’t firing right. Very similiar to Janda’s work which I’ve studied and learned.
Fixing movement impairments can be one of the most frustrating, for me at least, (for those of us who have athletes come back from a rehab center “rehabed” but not ready to play). It’s probably the least studied by most PTs and ATs, few SCs if any.
Fixing the firing patterns is crucial to getting athletes to move efficiently with minimal or zero compensations. Its the bridge between the training room and return to full activity.
Not a big fan of Mike Boyle. A little bit of a Poliquin wanna-be with more attitude. I got a little sour on him a few years back at a PB seminar. He had an “I know everything, this is the only way to do it, replicate sport movements in the weight room” presentation. This was when he was the SC at Boston Univ I think. He showed a video of his women’s ice hockey players squatting with the worst form imaginable and was praising how strong they were.
My buddy and I just looked at each other like “He’s got to be kidding”. I thought he might have gotten the video mixed up with “How to squirt cerebal spinal fluid and nucleus pulposus on your spotter by squatting like this.” video.
A year or two before that I was talking to an Australlian SC before one of his lecture in Boston. Boyle interups us saying something to the effect of
“I wanna be here but I don’t wanna pay”. The SC says “Everyone pays. Who are you?” He strorms out with a red ass because the SC was on his turf and didn’t recognize him or pay him any props.
That was a few years ago. Maybe he’s gotten better.
That’s funny because I’ve had a very different experience with my limited interaction with Coach Boyle. I’ve found him to be really helpful and always willing to give credit where credit’s due. I’d put his new book “Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities” in my top-5 all-time.
Shirley Sarhmanns book is on the “must have” list. Its an easy read.
Anatomy Trains had a great chapter on posture on fascial tightness.
A book I just purchased is called Structural Bodywork, and it goes into all this fascia btighten stuff as it relates to posture. Lots of massage and stretching protocols .
Again, try to get Sarhmanns book, it will have everything you need.
I don’t think it’s an easy read, but I’ve never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed. Just the subject matter doesn’t peak my interest. I realize there’s a need to understand the concepts (that’s why I’m reading it), but I’d much rather spend my time reading about speed/power and daydreaming about Ben’s hip wattage.
Speed, yes, I know what you mean about how different people interact with others and first impressions and such. I have a great repoire (sp) with an Arizona based SC, but many think he’s an arrogant, self-centered, ego manic. Perhaps it’s the circumstances when the contact between individuals occurs. Anyone can be having a bad day and be a little short with someone.
