One of the hardest movements that most athletes take to grasp, in my opinion, is hip hinging, but more specifically, hinging on one leg.  It is for that specific reason that I feel that everyone should be able to do it with technical proficiency and why we include it in our dynamic warm-up for everyone.  Most of the errors that I see with 1-leg SLDL are……

     One topic came to mind when it comes to core training, specifically how we choose the duration of the exercise vs. making the exercise more difficult to elicit a training effect.  One of the players was filling me on what they did with a past team at camp which sounded to me to be somewhat counterproductive.  A few of them chimed in and said that that was the exact same thing they were doing as well.  What am I talking about?  Holding planks for endless minutes.  Now,  I am actually…

     When taking a bottoms up approach to assessing or observing the way people move, the first thing that comes to mind is the ankle.  One of the major mobility restrictions is ankle mobility, or lack of ankle dorsiflexion (with the heel in contact with the ground).  In order to squat, run, lunge, & jump effectively, an athlete needs a good amount of ankle dorsiflexion and without it, compensation will occur somewhere up the kinetic chain.  There are many compensations to look for such…

Teaching 1-Leg SLDL

Teaching the single leg deadlift can provide some challenges since I find that most people have some trouble simply hip hinging even on two legs.  At Endeavor, we call the warm-up version of these inverted reaches and incorporating these into the warm-up everyday can have great carryover to the actual 1-leg SLDL. There are many cues that you can use with athlete’s such as…