Foam rolling has been about for over a decade and is used as a form of manual therapy to reduce myofascial tightness. (Cheatham et al 2015) (Peacock et al 2014). Myofascial tightness develops over time as a result of muscular microtrauma or after an injury. This can lead to scarring or thickening of the fascia…
Coldwater immersion (CWI) has been around for many years and been used for recovery and injury prevention/treatment. It seems recently to be growing in popularity, y, with people making home-made versions for their gardens. Even though CWI has been used for years there is still little or conflicting research in the understanding of the mechanisms…
This video is a Ted talk abouT The importance of play for our children. I came across this video around 5 years ago during my degree and Brandx has used it also in their seminars for youth training. It’s well worth a watch.
We are now into the fourth week of lockdown and I am sure many of you cannot wait until this is all over so you can get back to some sort of normality. The longer this goes on the more we might find it hard to stay motivated, so here are some ways to help…
Here is an interesting Ted talk that has been taken from research done by Dr. Porges, on Polyvagal Theory. This is a good watch if you work with kids either in a gym setting, school or even if you are a parent. Rule13’s psychologist will write a bit more on this in the near future.…
Rule13 is launching 3 new events. Two new seminars and a coaching academy. The first seminar will be a day-long and will focus on movement assessments and correctives for the group exercise class. It will show you how to assess movement and develop a corrective strategy that can be built into the warm-ups for your…
As an athlete is the programme the most important part of your training or is it the coaching? Let’s look at programming. A programme will get a person fitter, no matter what programme it is, as long as it’s consistent and progressive. It also has to be relative to what the athlete needs; there is…
Rule13 strength and conditioning are going to do a study using the Functional Movement Screen (FMS). There have been a lot of studies done on the FMS and it is widely used as a predictor of injury when screening athletes. One of the issues with the FMS is that it is performed unloaded and it…
Over the past number of years that I have been coaching kids classes or working with the youth athlete, I have had at least one in the group that has or is on medication for, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). There has been a noticeable increase in the number of kids who have ADHD; though,…
This isn’t so much a fact finding blog post but more a challenge to coaches and trainers. It’s also for people who pay for coaching or training. It’s more a post about the importance of continuing to learn and realising the level you currently are. So you have become a trainer and got your certificate…