Results For Category: "shoulders"

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Are your shoulders ready for hanging shrugs?

The following builds on a recent online discussion about the hanging shoulder shrug warm-up exercise. It began—as many things do—with a post from Liz Cooper. Like Liz, I, too, have...
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Anatomy of the Shoulder: from structure to function

In the world of circus arts education, it is taken as a given that an understanding of anatomy is important. I couldn’t agree more. For the past nine weeks (ten...
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Exercises Every Circus Artist/Athlete Should Do: Bear Crawls

In case you missed it on Instagram…before I accidentally deleted it, here’s another installment of “Exercises Every Circus Artist/Athlete Should Do”. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcu1k6ujGLh/ In fact, I would like to add sideways...
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My Movement Check-Up: Pain and the Magic of Movement

There were a handful of things about how my body was feeling that prompted my return to physical therapy—but I would not describe any of them as injuries. My shoulder...
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Two Exercises, plus progressions, that Strengthen your Shoulder Stabilizers

There are of course more than just two exercises that strengthen your shoulder stabilizing muscles, but I wanted to focus on these two in this blog post as they are great...
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My big takeaways from The Anatomy of Circus with Emily Scherb

Last weekend, Emily Scherb—Physical Therapist for Circus Artist-Athletes and Anatomy Nerd Extraordinaire—was in Boston. That fact alone was amazing for those already acquainted with her awesomeness, however she took it...
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