by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS “Don’t run with scissors!” That was something that we all learned from our parents when we were kids, right? The thought of tripping and impaling someone with a sharp metal object is pretty scary as both a child and adult. I was curious, so I did a quick search […]
Lumbar Disc Taping Technique
For the most part, I usually cringe when I hear that one of our athletes is getting an MRI on their low back, because I never know exactly what it is going to tell us and what some physicians will want to do with the findings. I’m a firm believer that the vast majority of […]
Update: Trap Bar Deadlift: Friend or Foe?
A while back, I wrote a post about the positives and negatives of the Trap Bar Deadlift as opposed to a traditional, barbell deadlift (if you missed it, read it here). That article drew quite a bit of attention from fitness and performance professionals and lead to some great conversations. In that post, I made […]
Feed Forward: Good or Bad?
An interesting question that I get quite often relating to coaching our patients and athletes is regarding the Feed Forward Mechanism. They don’t typically use the term “Feed Forward”, but it is essentially what they are asking. So, I thought for this post we would break it down little bit to understand the positives and […]
Looking at the Transverse Plane from 30,000 Feet
Many of you who have caught one of my live events in the last year or so have heard me say that I’m “All In” when it comes to training in the transverse plane. Rotation seems to be the lost plane of movement for a number of our athletes and patients. I have been just […]
Multi Prong Approach to Ankle Mobility
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Ankle mobility is a very common problem that wreaks havoc on the human body in general, but especially lower extremity movements. As an example, one can make a strong argument that lack of ankle dorsiflexion has a larger negative impact on the squat movement than any other restriction or […]
Are Rehab & Fitness the Next Power Duo?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS The world has created some great combinations over the years. Peanut Butter and Jelly, Batman and Robin, Mac and Cheese, Han Solo and Chewbacca, and the list can go on and on… I would like to add another duo to that list…Rehab and Fitness. Some of you may think […]
TRX Lat Pin & Stretch
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I am always looking for new ways to improve tissue quality and performance for my athletes and patients. While I love hands on manual therapy, I often need my athletes to be able to treat themselves to a certain degree. Foam rolling and trigger point therapy with balls is […]
Is Strength Important?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I hear a lot that people need to just “get strong”. Or, my patient is “weak” in that area. Or my personal favorite, they just need to work on “core strength.” Whenever I hear these statements from clinicians, it puzzles me a bit. What does it really mean to […]
Core Mobility Series
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I was recently reminded how powerful the Core Mobility Series (CMS) is for our athletes. The CMS was a product of a brainstorming session between myself and Andrew Harestad, owner of CAMP in the Salt Lake City area a few years back. After we started playing with the concept, […]
Follow Up: Correcting Tibial Rotation
By Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS A few weeks back, I published a 2 part blog series on Tibial Rotation (IR). In that series, we discussed the need for Tibial Internal Rotation and then how to correct it. I wrote about it, because I found a while back that I wasn’t looking hard enough at […]
Brain Training via the Foot
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Geographically, the brain and the foot don’t get any further apart. Despite the distance, the foot and brain are intertwined to provide constant feedback to each other and the combination ultimately shapes how we move. A few years ago, training without shoes or with minimus style soles became the […]
Training the Neural Edge
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS “The Brain Reigns Supreme” If you attend one of my courses, this will be drilled into your head; because, frankly, its true. Renowned neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert explains, “We have a brain for one reason and one reason only, and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements. There is no […]
Trap Bar Deadlift: Friend or Foe?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS For one reason or another, I have found myself in the same discussion a lot lately, either online or in person, regarding whether or not the trap bar deadlift is a good movement or not. I have had conversations with our staff at Missouri State, with another collegiate strength […]
Rocktape + DVRT Clean & Press: Diaphragm
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS This is the 3rd and final part of my 3 part series on ways that we can combine 2 of my favorite training techniques…DVRT and Rocktape. If you are training for the DVRT Clean and Press test as part of the level 1 certification, you know that passing it […]
Rocktape + DVRT Clean & Press: Shoulder Stability
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS In part 1 of this 3 part series, we showed how we can use Rocktape to improve the Performance Back Chain to decrease fatigue, improve accuracy and ultimately crush the DVRT Clean and Press test. If you missed it, click here. One major limiting factor for people who are […]
Rocktape + DVRT Clean & Press: Performance Back Chain
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Recently, I got together with my good friend and DVRT Master Instructor Larry Betz of the Brooklyn Athletic Club in Brooklyn, NY and we were discussing ways that we can help people who are training for the DVRT Clean and Press test as part of the DVRT level 1 […]
Tibial Internal Rotation Part 2: How to Get It
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS In part 1 of this 2 part series, we discussed why we need Tibial Internal Rotation. If you missed it, click here. Now that we understand the need for it, let’s talk about how we can improve it. If you are like me and use Selective Functional Movement Assessment […]
Tibial Internal Rotation Part 1: Why we need it
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS For a number of years in my clinical practice, I have largely ignored the triplaner mechanics of the lower leg. Meaning, I didn’t fully appreciate the need for movement in multiple planes of motion in the lower leg, and specifically the Tibia. After all, I was taught that the […]
Will We Ever Get Along?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Over the past few years I have traveled all over this great country of ours lecturing and working with all kinds of great professionals. I have worked with Athletic trainers, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Strength & Conditioning Coaches, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants, Physicians, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Personal […]
Should EVERYONE Be Able to Squat?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS I have traveled the country over the past few years teaching and speaking and interacting with a number of PTs, DCs, ATCs, and other healthcare providers. As you may know, I am a big believer in a movement-based approach to rehab. Meaning, the earlier and more that you can […]
Quadruped: A Great Exercise Usually Done Wrong
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Some people call it the quadruped exercise while others call it the bird dog. I have also heard it referred to as diagonals. Regardless of your terminology, it can be a great exercise for improving trunk stability and improving movement strategies. Dr. Stuart McGill likes it so much, he […]
Should FMS Dictate Practice Status?
by Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS As many of you likely know, I’m a fan of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS). I have been performing the FMS with athletes since 2001 and over the last 8 years, between myself and our student athletic trainers, I oversee close to 500 screens being performed each year as […]
Returning to Running After Injury: The Case for Introducing High Speed Running Early in the Running Progression. Part 2
By Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS In Part 1 of this series, we discussed why you should be introducing running at 80% of full sprint as their reintroduction to running when returning your athletes from an injury. If you haven’t read that post, do it here because it has important information as to why we […]
Returning to Running After Injury: The Case for Introducing High Speed Running Early in the Return to Play Progression. Part 1
By Mitch Hauschildt, MA, ATC, CSCS Running is a bit of an interesting topic in our current sports medicine environment. It wasn’t that long ago that running for cardiovascular fitness was considered a pillar of physical fitness. As the fitness industry has changed, running has been looked upon by some as almost a dirty word […]
Rotation = Less Foot Pain
Like most clinicians, I see my fair share of foot and lower leg pain. At the collegiate level, plantar fasciitis, posterior Tib pain, and Tibial stress fractures occur much more than I would like. We have seen a reduction over the last 8-10 years in these injury rates due to a better understanding of the […]
Training with Progressions
Strength Training 101: TRAIN WITH PROGRESSIONS!! This isn’t a difficult concept, yet I come in contact with so many coaches and personal trainers who either choose not to or don’t know how to use progressions with their programming. Your athletes and clients must EARN THE RIGHT TO PROGRESS!!! If we just assume that they have […]
