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How to Fix Rounded Shoulders

Reversing rounded shoulders requires a multi-faceted approach. Whether it be increased strength, better mobility, or improved postural awareness and output, all need your attention. Otherwise, it’s hard to see sustainable long-term change. In this article, we discuss what you need to do to lay the broad foundations needed to fix rounded shoulders!

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When Is Your Shoulder Pain Neck-Related?

If you’re trying to solve your shoulder pain, it’s important to have all the information at hand. Importantly, you need to make sure your shoulder pain is not being referred from your neck. Otherwise, all your hard work could be wasted. In this article, we discuss how to find and self-treat any neck-related shoulder pain in order to help support long-term progress!

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6 Essential Recovery Tips To Boost Your Running Performance

Post-run recovery is almost as important as the run itself. All that hard work on the track may not count for much if you don’t help your body optimize its in-built recovery processes. Luckily there are a number of simple and effective strategies you can implement to help your body recover quickly and be ready to go again as soon as possible. here are 6!

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Myth: Hamstring Tightness at the Back of the Knee is Not Hamstring Tightness

When stretching your hamstrings, where do you feel it? Ideally, we should always feel it in the heart of the thigh at the back. However many seem to feel it down at the back of the back. Interestingly, this isn’t actually the hamstring being stretched. Instead, it’s actually an over-tensioned Sciatic nerve. Here’s how to solve it and find the right hamstring stretch for you:

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3 Uniquely Powerful Exercises to Address the Root Cause of Your Shoulder Pain

Do you suffer from shoulder pain? If you do, how much time and energy do you put into treating the tissue around the shoulder? Interestingly, a large percentage of shoulder pain is the consequence of poor mechanics, and the trick is to figure out where the dysfunctional tissue is in order to get to the root cause. Here are three unique areas that may be setting your shoulder up to fail, and what to do about it.

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Myth: Noisy Knees Are a Sign of Osteoarthritis

Do your knees creek and groan at you when you move? If so, are you like many who feel it’s a sign of Arthritis? Thankfully, you may be pleasantly surprised to hear this isn’t the case. The orchestra of sounds is more likely a consequence of less than perfect knee mechanics rather than anything that shows up on an x-ray. And it’s also something you can change. So let’s delve in to why noisy knees should not be thought of as a sign of knee arthritis.

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How Well Do You Breathe?

Have you ever taken a moment to think about how you breathe? For something so simple and automatic, having a good breathing pattern is not the fait accompli we often think it is. Read on as we go through some important points to consider about the way you breathe.

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3 Hidden Reasons Your Knee Hurts

The majority of non-traumatic knee pain can often feel mysterious. The pain is obvious but the cause less so. Because of this, we tend to fall back on cliched terms like ‘bad luck’, ‘age’ and ‘moving the wrong way’. Interestingly, once we take a big enough step back, there are often three foundational reasons for a knee to become sore. Here’s why…

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Are the Heels on Our Shoes Bad for Us?

We wear shoes every day. But how often do you stop and think about their impact on your physical health and function? With modern footwear heavily effected by our thirst for technology, we can easily loose sight of what’s important for our feet - a category thick heels may not belong. Read on as we discuss why shoes with any heel might be doing you a huge disservice. All without you even realizing.

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