The Star Excursion Balance Test has been one of our favourite tests at Movement Assessment Technologies for a long time. It's a major reason why we developed The MAT in the first place to make the use of this test easy and accessible to professionals around the world.
Other variations of...
Functional training can divide many trainers and S&C professionals. Some will believe it has it's place while other may think it's a waste of time that not only doesn't get any results, but often make you look stupid too.
At the MAT assessment group we know there is no such thing as...
If not here is a picture that explains why you should. The hip is a ball in socket joint meaning it has incredible access to 3-dimensional movement particularly in dynamic tasks.
For many of our patients and clients however, the actions that they perform in their daily lives and in...
At the Movement Assessment Technologies we use squats daily in the rehabilitation and development of movement competency in our patients and clients. We often modify squats in the position of the feet or upper body to create different stresses and loads through the system depending on what an...
The Side Hop Test as described by Gustavsson et al in 2006 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16525796) is a fantastic end-stage rehab test for individuals returning from lower limb injury as it objectively assesses...
Today we look at upper limb strength and power using Strength By Numbers Stomp-IT devices.
It's like magic today and we start to gather information that previously has just not accessible to us using Strength By Numbers Stomp-IT devices.
Today we take the Stomp-IT devices from Strength By Numbers for a spin, look at hops, a mid-thigh pull
Today we use Strength By Numbers Pull-IT device to measure leg and shoulder strength and power.
To find out more about Strength By Numbers, visit www.strengthbynumbers.com. To book a MAT course to learn how to perform game-changing assessment, visit www.matassessment.com. To view more of Steve's...
So here's phase 1 of my journey in 2019.
What do you think?
What do you think should be in the program that isn't?
What do you think shouldn't be in the program?
Share your thoughts in the comment below!
Ok, you've done well to make it this far. As you can tell it was a tough day of testing for me, but hopefully it will be worth it in 3 months time.
Now it's your turn to do some work!
I need you to help me out and write me a program to do for the month of March.
Remember, the BEST program will be...
