In Gray Cook's most recent podcast, he discusses the importance of going without shoes and the benefits that come along with going with less on your feet.
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Topics: Art Horne, barefoot strength training, Barefoot in Boston, barefoot running, Gray Cook
Gray Cook reminds us in his most recent book, Movement, that things are not always what they appear.
• What we view as weakness may be muscle inhibition
• The weakness is a prime mover might be the result of a dysfunctional stabilizer
• Poor function in an agonist may actually be problems with the antagonist.
• What we view as tightness may be protective muscle tone, guarding and inadequate muscle coordination.
• What we see as bad technique might be the only option for the individual performing poorly selected exercises.
• What we see as a low general fitness may be the extra metabolic demand produced by inferior neuromuscular coordination and compensation behavior.
-pg.25. Movement by Gray Cook.
....or we could just ignore these points and sleep a whole lot better at night "knowing" that our patients somehow simply didn't respond to our "traditional" treatment protocol.
... or we could take a look a little bit further down the rabbit hole.
The decision is yours.
Art Horne is the Coordinator of Care and Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Men’s Basketball Team at Northeastern University, Boston MA. He can be reached at a.horne@neu.edu.
Topics: basketball conference, athletic training conference, boston hockey summit, Gray Cook, Movement
How closely are you looking at your athletes?
"Loss of mobility is sometimes the only way the body can achieve a point of stability, but that stability is not authentic. It is often seen or observed as stiffness or inflexibility, but on a sensory motor level, it is part of a system with no other available choice. It is basically engineered dysfunction at a local level to allow continued physical performance at a global level."
Pg. 27. Movement by Gray Cook.
Topics: Basketball Related, Art Horne, basketball resources, basketball conference, boston hockey summit, Gray Cook, Movement
“The residents who live here, according to the parable, began noticing increasing numbers of drowning people caught in the river’s swift current and so went to work inventing ever more elaborate technologies to resuscitate them. So preoccupied were these heroic villagers with rescue and treatment that they never thought to look UPSTREAM to see who was pushing the victims in.”
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