The Benefit of the ½ Kneeling, Single Arm, Lat Pulldown
Many athletes and trainers know a good exercise to strengthen the muscles of the back are lat pull-downs. Lat pulldown variations help to further concentrate this specific shoulder area for strength or growth. Half kneeling single-arm lat pulldowns are one of these...
3 Exercises to Improve Your Change In Direction
Ready? SWITCH!! Today we're learning how to properly prepare athletes for a change in direction. Many athletes, including those recovering from ACL reconstruction, present with poor movement quality when returning to a change in direction for sport. In addition to...
6 Steps to Designing Big Power Programs
One of the most important aspects of training that can be improved in the weight room is power, however all power is not created equal. There are different types of “power” that go by many different names amongst physical preparation coaches and sports scientists,...
How To Do Pull – Ups
How to do pull-ups correctly, as Justin Moore has already brilliantly written about in several of his articles, we need the ability to protract and upwardly rotate our scapula to achieve a full overhead position with any degree of success. Too much pulling can lock us...
3 Ways To Make Pushups More Challenging With No Equipment
When it comes to bang for your buck exercises, it’s difficult to beat the pushup. Nearly every client who walks through the doors of Parabolic will, at some point during his or her time with us, learn to execute the pushup with a high level of technical proficiency,...
The Best Squat You’re Not Doing
The squat is arguably the most important movement pattern there is to athletic performance and overall health. It requires the ability to express and control full range of motion at your ankles, knees, and hips while maintaining a stable trunk position. These...
Building A Larger Engine Using The Strength Aerobic Method
The strength aerobic method was first written about by Yuri Verkhoshansky in his book Special Strength Training Manual for Coaches and recently popularized by Joel Jamieson via his book Ultimate MMA Conditioning. The strength aerobic method is used to induce type 1,...
Breathing And Bracing: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Lift
Here at Parabolic, we talk a lot about how we use positional breathing drills to influence mobility and stability. We even talk about how viewing movement through a PRI lens has influenced how we coach and program exercises for our athletes. Justin Moore has written...
Training Tips: How to Improve Your Athlete’s Speed
Thanks to the Internet, trainers who predominantly use foot ladders to increase “foot speed” are increasing. As a result, people are being exposed to and influenced by training that prioritizes rapid leg movements and fancy footwork over force production and moving...
Acupuncture and Post Operative Care
Surgery is a serious, painful business, even when successful, and managing your recovery can be as delicate and important as the procedure itself. Currently, the use of opioids is the most broadly accepted way to treat postoperative pain, but the benefits of these...
Parabolic Performance and Rehab and Murray Hill Tennis and Fitness celebrated their partnership
Parabolic Performance and Rehab and Murray Hill Tennis and Fitness celebrated their partnership, on Wednesday evening, with an open house and “sip and see” launch party. Guests toured Parabolic’s new state-of-the-art sports training and physical therapy facility, now...
Dry Needling and Acupuncture: What’s the Difference?
If you are or have been a patient at Parabolic, chances are you have received dry needling or have seen one of our physical therapists utilize it as part of a patient treatment plan. Parabolic also offers acupuncture to promote a more well-rounded and holistic...
