Monday, February 26, 2007

For Chris; RIFGA post

Chris

here is the basic routine I am doing lately, from a Jan post. It is pretty much the same.


http://rifsblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/current-rifga.html

2 comments:

Chris said...

Thanks Rif - very helpful.

I do appreciate that this is a routine specific to your own problems, but that - combined with your comment on the last post - is helpful in itself, to see how you address those problems. Hopefully I can learn from that.

Cheers

Chris

Mark Reifkind said...

chris,

my key focus is to make sure I have,and maintain, as close to neutral position of each joint so that normal ROM is always possible.thats the whole"length/tension" relationship thing. If the musculature on one side of the joint is too tight it pulls on the joint and malpositions it.
stretch the too tight side and strengthen( tighten) the too loose side with corrective exericses.

175 x 1 x 5, 185 x 1 x 5, 190 x 1, 205 x 5 sec hold, 215 x 5 sec hold BW squats 10/10 6 min seated laterals 4 x 10 12 lb

 This went GREAT. After mondays soft knees I focused on " locking the knee " then  getting head out ofof the way Way out. Worked g...