Results For Category: "Strength & Conditioning"
July 22, 2016
5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Hips
Technically, these 5 questions are more about your pelvic placement and how this placement can be effecting your posture and potentially hindering some of…
May 27, 2016
What are we stretching and why?
Everything that I write here is based on a few basic principles. One is that if you have found your way to…
May 20, 2016
Stretching: finally, some clarity
I’ve been sitting on this thought for months, so this post really is overdue. After all, the literature review was published way…
May 13, 2016
Stable Hips for Circus
One of the more common movement pattern limitations is the Active Straight Leg Raise (ASLR). In the Functional Movement Screen, this particular screen…
May 6, 2016
One for the teachers: thoughts on duty of care
In the time since I left trapeze school, I’ve had some incredible ‘continuing education’ experiences in strength and conditioning and I’ve also…
Finding your Front Splits: (part 1)
The Splits. Everyone wants them, but how do we get them? Attaining your split doesn’t mean your hamstrings finally opened up and said “ok,…
February 15, 2016
Stretching: down the rabbit hole
What’s exciting to me about circus is that it has so much potential to be a journey of self-discovery. Everyone starts in…
January 24, 2016
Exercises Every Aerialist Should Do: the problem with the ‘hollow’ body
I have used it before in the past and I’ve worked with others who have used it. In certain circles, it’s quite…
December 23, 2015
Manifesto 2016: ch-ch-ch-changes
It’s been way too long since I’ve posted. It’s time for that to change. In fact, many things are changing and I’d…
September 4, 2015
Circus: this isn’t ‘just for fun’
Back in the days of TSNY Logbook, version 1, I had a conversation with some colleagues about the conditioning requirements. At the…