"If you generate power with your spine, generally it will break, the discs will become damaged before you get to that ultimate performance." That is a quote from Dr Stuart McGill based on some of his newer research on elite athletes including MMA world champion George St-Pierre. His work has revealed that elite athletes protect their spine while generating tremendous power by using their hips and shoulders to create movement and super stiffening the spine at critical times. This discover translates to the average person in that we all need to learn to stiffen the spine when it is under higher loads so our spines and discs will be protected from damage.
One of several ways to do this is through abdominal bracing. Is anyone familiar with that technique?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb8ShtGSLHk
Showing posts with label spinal biomechanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spinal biomechanics. Show all posts
Friday, November 28, 2014
Dr. Stuart McGill demonstrates research based core exercises
I just spent 16 hours at a weekend seminar instructed by Dr. Stuart McGill, who is a world renowned spinal biomechanics researcher and who works with many world class athletes from many different sports. I have been following his work for about 15 years. Please take his advise and stop doing sit ups, crunches and the many other "abdominal" exercises that put repetitive flexion into the spine as these will many times eventually cause disc damage including herniations. He knows this because he has researched it in his lab at the Univ of Waterloo.
Here is a video form NY Times Magazine featuring his big four exercises.
Can you see why these exercises are much better for building the core?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukmaW9CmSU
Here is a video form NY Times Magazine featuring his big four exercises.
Can you see why these exercises are much better for building the core?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukmaW9CmSU
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
The man who wants to kill crunches
Now getting back to my specialty of manual medicine.
During my three years of post graduate classes which ultimately lead to my board certification in chiropractic rehabilitation in 2001, Dr. Stuart McGill taught one of my classes. I have been following his fascinating work ever since that time.
He is a professor of spinal biomechanics and has researched and written extensively on the detrimental effects of lumbar (low back) flexion and is a critic of abdominal crunch exercises.
I teach many abdominal and core exercises based on the results of his work that put significantly less stress of the lumbar discs than crunches and many of the traditional abdominal and low back exercises.
Was anyone aware this work?
http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-man-who-wants-to-kill-crunches/
During my three years of post graduate classes which ultimately lead to my board certification in chiropractic rehabilitation in 2001, Dr. Stuart McGill taught one of my classes. I have been following his fascinating work ever since that time.
He is a professor of spinal biomechanics and has researched and written extensively on the detrimental effects of lumbar (low back) flexion and is a critic of abdominal crunch exercises.
I teach many abdominal and core exercises based on the results of his work that put significantly less stress of the lumbar discs than crunches and many of the traditional abdominal and low back exercises.
Was anyone aware this work?
http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/the-man-who-wants-to-kill-crunches/
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