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I'm on a guest post kick right now and I wanted to feature this piece from Dr. Dan Pope of FitnessPainFree.com as I've seen several athletes recently struggle with their front rack position causing a lot of dysfunction (think symptoms of subacromial...

I am fortunate to have been recently interviewed by the PT website CinemaSays.Wordpress.com. It has gotten quite a bit of traffic so I thought it would be interesting to share my interview here. Check out this website, there are some fantastic interviews with big...

This is going to be Part 1 in a multi-part series on the feet as a doorway into the nervous system. We know that having flat feet or collapsed arches has been touted as a risk factor for injury (albeit somewhat inconsistently). And it just doesn't pass the eyeball...

Something I've noticed more and more with training/treating is some seriously poor jaw positioning in clients.  Whether it's just resting posture or the middle of a big lift, people go thru some weird jaw movements: flaring it wide open, biting down hard and grinding,...

The first post here at SethOberst.com went up on July 10, 2013 to zero fanfare (including from me). Fortunately, this site has grown tremendously in the year since so I wanted to reflect on where it stands and where it's going.Since the first post, First Post + Primer...

For this week's post I wanted to feature an article written by my friend Dr. Dan Pope of FitnessPainFree.com. This guy has some great ideas on functional assessments and correctives and this piece on the deadlift pattern is one of them. Dan has some of the best...

What is the target organ/system of training? While many think it's the muscular or cardiovascular systems, the true target is the nervous system. The brain exists to move us thru, and interact with, the environment. The sensory input our nervous system receives from...

Movement baselines, or the minimum movements necessary for human function and performance, are essential to efficiency and resiliency. The inability to perform basic movements set us up for failure down the road as I believe it lowers the ceiling on performance and...

The following post was featured by my friend and Endurance coach/beast Jeff Ford of Conviction Training Facility on his site FireCoachingConsulting.com (I was stoked to talk ideas with their coaches and athletes a few weeks back).Look, my purpose here has always been...

Olympic lifts and their derivatives are complex, powerful, and pretty awesome movements. We feel that a graded approach is necessary in coaching these movements in order to maximize performance and efficiency as well as prevent injury. Here's a guest post from my...

In case you missed it, here is the piece I wrote for my buddy Dr. Dan Pope's site FitnessPainFree.com:Proper squatting forms the basis of any performance system and is essential to meaningful function as an athlete and human - which includes the elderly (might need to...

What is the definition of a good athlete? Is it the pitcher who throws a great curveball? Or the elite 100m sprinter? How about the 3-point artist on the basketball team? How about the individual that does all of them well and easily picks up new skills - the one kid...

I know this piece will sting some deeply as I have found that those who do love ellipticals seem to really love ellipticals. But the fact of the matter is, ellipticals are pretty awful and if you respect yourself as an athlete - don't use them. Many of you already...

As a physio, I see a lot of running-related injury, dysfunction, and performance loss. Depending on who you read, injury incidence among runners can be as high as 85% many of which are due to training errors and poor mechanics. In that vein, this week's post is from...

As a coach or physio, we're always looking for the most simple and effective cue we can give an athlete to elicit the best movement. Invariably, the best coaches and physios I've worked with know how to get more out of their athletes with seemingly less coaching. One...