Due to their general makeup, hamstrings have the potential to be strong. But many athletes fail to tap in to their hamstrings strength and power. Training your hamstrings to be recruited properly will give you the ability to run faster, decelerate and change direction more efficiently. It will also help better stabilize your knees; which is...
What is a cossack? This fancy pants move is actually acquired from the Ukrainian shumka dance style of cossack dancing; which cab seen in the video below… The version that we use at BIM is not quite as exciting, bouncy, nor do we play as sweet of tunes, but the exercise is still great nonetheless....
Pullovers are good for so many reasons. When done correctly, pullovers require you to maintain a strong set of your ribcage – which helps to strengthen your diaphragm and internal obliques, and makes for a great anti-extension core exercise. Pullovers also allow for an eccentric contraction of your lats while they are in a lengthened...
Often people master bilateral exercises and jump right into unilateral exercises as a means of progressing themselves. For certain movements however, a transitional exercise can help ensure that form is maintained and the right muscles are contributing to stabilizing and/or producing movement. This is especially true for glute bridging exercises. Here is a regular Glute...
These are the things you can’t see in a before and after picture. Prior to commencing her transformation journey, Jessica (like so many of us) had a long list of excuses keeping her out of the gym. But after adopting her son Jack, things changed. Jessica realized that she wanted (and needed) to live a...
