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David Weck On Locomotion, Squatting More, & The Bosu Ball

Barbell Shrugged

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The Adductors Are Engaged in a Way That Is Not Possible Anymore

The whole first part of my session with an athlete has to do with the the preparation and the core strength that's gonna bridge the big core strength. The compression stuff just happens to be unique because you're tapping into the resource of the adductors in a way That is not possible any other way and it's an untapped resource for us all. You can really only target them and train them with an oblique force from the side So it's the difference between pressing away and flying away, right? And functionally speaking the adductor really isn't It's open chain when it's pulling in and I would call it flexion more so than squeeze Right, and then when it's

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