Video: Tight Calves, Or A Lack Of Ankle Eversion?
April 14, 2022
Do you have tight calves? Do your ankles feel like blocks? Well, you’re not alone. We often work with clients with beat-up ankles. They wake
Category: Functional Range Conditioning
Video: Stop Following This Mobility Trend
March 22, 2022
If there’s one hip mobility drill I see on the internet more than anything, it’s the 90/90, windshield wiper, drill/exercise/thing. You sit on your butt,
My Upper Traps: A Closer Look
March 16, 2022
Editor’s Note: Let me preface this article by saying that not everyone with humongous traps or a really tight neck has poor shoulder mobility. I realize
Level Up Your Stretching With PAILs And RAILs
February 21, 2022
PAILS & RAILS: It’s A mouthful. If you’ve ever been to our gym or done one of our KINSTRETCH classes, you know we do these
Warm-Ups: Make Them Broadly-Specific
January 12, 2022
Warm-ups aren’t a contentious topic in the fitness industry, but most coaches I know approach warm-ups in various ways. If you take ten coaches and
Functional Range Conditioning (FRC®) and Controlled Articular Rotations (CARs)
December 10, 2021
Motive Training has grown a lot over the last 18 months; we have always been a movement-focused gym, but we recently kicked things up a
Re-Examining Your Cool-Down Routine
December 10, 2021
You just finished a killer full-body workout, and you’re exhausted. What do you do next? Most people would say, “Cool down.” The goal is pretty
Functional Fitness: Evolving Past “Pattern Training”
December 10, 2021
What makes a squat a squat? Plato would say that squats are squats because we made them so, not because squats exist conceptually in the
Case Study: Why The Right Assessments Matter
December 10, 2021
Pain is no joke, and as you’ll see, it changed Tom’s life for good. Thankfully, we were able to help. Meet Tom, a former collegiate
Case Study: You Can’t Move Where You Can’t Move
December 10, 2021
If you read our previous articles, you know that your body moves—and has moved—because of the information it has received since the day you were
