Strong on two feet. How about on one? Try this before you read on. Stand on one leg, shift the hip out past the foot, then come back to standing slow and smooth. Did you get there cleanly? Or did you catch yourself side bending through the spine, twisting, or fishing around

Pain-free doesn’t automatically mean ready to load. Before you progress someone back to training, you need to understand what they can tolerate and whether they’re ready for the demands you’re about to place on them. How do you decide when someone is ready to load again?

Where it hurts isn’t always what’s driving the problem. If you’re assessing a recurring issue, are you looking beyond the painful area to understand what might be contributing to it? Where do you start when a client presents with pain?

Getting someone out of pain is one part of the job. Helping them return to training and handle the demands of their sport or daily life is where things can get more complicated. It’s easy to feel like the job is done once symptoms settle, but that doesn’t always mean the person

The painful area isn’t always what’s causing the problem. If you only assess where it hurts, you could miss what’s driving it. Look beyond the symptoms and assess the whole movement system. Are you assessing the cause or just treating the symptoms?

Pain-free is not the finish line. A client can be pain-free, hit full range and test strong, and still be getting it all from the wrong place. Range borrowed from the lower back instead of the hip. Strength sitting on top of a compensation. So it’s not really load or don’t

NEXT WORKSHOP ANNOUNCED The Hybrid Clinician Workshop is back in London for another 2 days of getting stuck into movement assessment, correction and programming. 26 & 27 November 2026 More hands-on. More cases. More time to actually practise the stuff. £200 off the first 5

Is one adductor always tight, no matter how much you stretch it? Your body might be using it to cover for the opposite side. The body is creative at solving movement problems. It can compensate left, right, up, down and across different planes. In this case, a lateral hip with

The workshop is deliberately practical. You’re not sitting at the back watching us run through a load of slides and hoping it all makes sense when you get home. You’ll be assessing, correcting what you’re seeing, testing your ideas and working through cases with other

“It’s bridging the gap between seeing it and knowing what to do to fix it.” As a coach in an SGPT facility, Rory is seeing movement inefficiencies every day. He knows when something isn’t quite right, but as he said, seeing the problem and knowing what to actually do about it

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Flare your elbows on the bench press. Don’t tuck them. Elbows closer to 90° instead of tucked gives you: ✅ Better pec engagement - the fibers run horizontally, so this position lets them produce more force ✅ Stronger, more efficient pressing ✅ The exact technique the best

If you love gymming these will probably help you 💾 Save for next session Side lunge & Crossover Lunge - we get the medial and lateral hip stretched out and active. Glute max and adductors for squatting, glute med for running. Rotating lunge - great for external rotation of

The best part of Mike’s feedback wasn’t that he’d taken away three times as much as he expected from two days. It was hearing him describe what that actually meant for his work. He’d done online courses before and had good information, but there’s a difference between being

Crossbody compensations are when one side of the body provides a missing movement quality from the other. The adductors often pick up the slack for hyper mobile or loose lateral hips on the other side. We can stretch the adductors until the cows come home, but their tightness

3 drills to actually feel your glutes working in squats and deadlifts. 1.. Strict Box Hinge - box gives feedback to lock the knees in place, biasing hip IR on the back leg. Send the hip up and back, fold over, get the glute stretch and load. 2. Slow Mo Curtsy Lunge - kick the

3 drills to actually feel your glutes working in squats and deadlifts. 1. Strict Box Hinge - box gives feedback to lock the knees in place, biasing hip IR on the back leg. Send the hip up and back, fold over, get the glute stretch and load. 2. Slow Mo Curtsy Lunge - kick the

3 drills to actually feel your glutes working in squats and deadlifts. 1. Strict Box Hinge - box gives feedback to lock the knees in place, biasing hip IR on the back leg. Send the hip up and back, fold over, get the glute stretch and load. 2. Slow Mo Curtsy Lunge - kick the

Most clinicians are trained to chase the pain. It shows up in the shoulder, so the shoulder gets the attention. It’s not wrong, it’s just incomplete, a plan built on half the picture. The other half is the body as a system. How the hip feeds the knee. How the spine feeds the

As a personal trainer, was able to immediately put into play the skills from the mentorship: Getting clarity on what was holding back his clients Selecting better exercises to address their mechanics Improving his own movement and back pain too One of the most underestimated