Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance

Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance

Stuart McGill

Language: English

Pages: 328

ISBN: 0973501804

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Get the latest scientific evidence on back exercise - what helps and what hurts, and why, from a world renowned authority. Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance provides professionals with the evidence base to design and prescribe the best exercise programs for the back. A complete description of a 5-stage program is provided. Many examples illustrate each stage within a bad back rehabilitation program together with a performance enhancement program for athletes. Beginning with recognizing and re-patterning perturbed motor programs and progressing to the enhancement of stability, then endurance, the final stages continue with strength, power and agility training. Each step is well illustrated and instructive. Added to this are general approaches to assess the demand of individual activities and sports and how to identify the critical components that need specific focus in an individual's back. Dr. McGill's style makes for an easy read of this thorough and rich resource.

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outcome study. Spine, 14: 431-437. Scannell, J.P., and McGill, S.M. (2003) Lumbar posture - should, and can, it be modified? A study of passive tissue stiffness and lumbar position in activities of daily living. Phys. Ther., 83(10): 907-917. Siff, M., (2002) Supertraining, Sixth Edition, Supertraining Institute, Denver. Snook, S.H., Webster, B.S., McGarry, R.W., Fogleman, M.T., and McCann, K.B. (1998) The reduction of chronic nonspecific low back pain through the control of early morning lumbar

Motor Changes Following Injury While the foundation for good clinical practice requires an understanding of the mechanism for injury, an understanding of the lingering consequences is also helpful. Unfortunately, too many athletes only become interested in their backs following injury. Pain and central sensitization: An interesting point for athletes is that pain can be both a blessing and a curse. Working through pain (assuming muscular pain) is a training necessity, but pain from tissue damage

for the subjects are naturally restricted (some which might exacerbate an unstable spine). Removing the exacerbators would produce a positive outcome. Stretching the back is a specific example - simply removing the stretching which is exacerbating of the unstable spine brings relief. A study by Koumantakis and colleagues (2005) attempted to isolate the effects of intentional TrA and multifidus training. They compared two patient groups: One received an exercise program which included variants of

for Rehabilitative Back Exercise Back Flexibility Strength and Endurance Spine Power - integration of flexibility and strength discussions Motor patterns Eliciting volitional movement Aerobic exercise Studies on the connection between fitness and injury disability Order of exercises within a session Establishing grooved patterns Breathing Time of day for exercise Clinical Relevance for the Rehabilitative Exercise The process of injury: Tissue response to mechanical load References Chapter 3 -

-162- Part "Ih r:ee Building the UltiDlate PerforDler: Putting it all Together The scientific analysis conducted and documented in this book provides guidelines for selecting, grading and progressing exercise. A systematic approach for building the ultimate back is provided here, together with several case studies to provide examples of what has proven successful with many athletes. Chapter 9 Developing the Program The components of the 5 stage program presented in this book have been

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