When you step foot into a Pilates studio, and you are completely new to the game, it is going to be overwhelming. You are going to see straps, wooden poles, beds in metal frames and furry straps, and once you lay down onto the Pilates reformer bed, it is going to become even more confusing. You are going to be asked to move parts of your body you didn’t even know you had and to find muscles that are completely foreign to you. You will be asked to imagine your body to be so

The psoas is one of my favourite muscles in the body (if it is possible to have a favourite muscle) but it is a muscle that seems to be forgotten a lot. I am sure you have heard the term “hip flexors” and you’ve probably been told that yours are tight, but what are our hip flexors and what do they do? We have a few hip flexors in the body, but this post is going to focus on the psoas. First though, a quick “layman’s terms” anatomy lesson. Our leg bone (the femur) is held i

In a lot of the reading that I have read regarding hockey players, groin strains and muscle imbalances, as well as discussing these issues with Orthopedic surgeons, physiotherapists and other movement coaches, it has become quite obvious that hockey players should spend more time eccentrically strengthening their adductors as well as working on creating efficiency and balance between their posterior and anterior slings. Focusing on both of these aspects in their training wil

I’ll never forget the day I decided to finally begin a journey I had been putting off for nearly 10 years. I was 31 and it was a morning like every other morning, where I crawled out of bed in pain. Years as a high level volleyball player through college, combined with many more years of pounding it on the pavement in my running shoes, as well as competing in Ironman distance triathlon, had turned my morning wake ups into slow rolls out of bed and hobbles into the kitchen t