Hi all! I hope everyone in the Northeast has been able to stay mostly dry these past couple days. The forecast looks perfect for the weekend! Here are some notes and additional thoughts from the third presentation from last weekend. This was Gray Cook's hour. He is probably my favorite speaker/presenter. I've seen him a couple times and always get a ton of good and useful info from him.

• Movement is behavoral. We must relearn how to move properly. When we move properly our muscles will sculpt themselves.
• The #1 predictor of future injury is prior injury. We are doing something wrong from a rehab standpoint and not giving athletes the best chance to remain injury free.
• "Just because someone is flexible doesn't mean they move well." This goes back to the first point. Stretching is important. People should pick 2 or 3 good stretches and make them part of their daily routine. However, stick to just a few minutes then move on to the mobility work.
• This could be a very cool new toy. It looks like a really good balance/stability test in all planes of movement.
• I like really like this point..."Will strengthening glute med help the squat or will fixing the squat movement force glute med to work properly?" Coaches so often try to break down a movement pattern and figure out which muscles don't work. It's much better to just apply corrective strategy to fix the movement pattern.
  
• "The best way to strengthen your core is to clean up your weakest movement pattern so that your core can work properly."
  
• He talked at length about single leg deadlifts. I wrote down a couple important notes about this exercise. 1. It must be heavy! 2. You must go all the way down to the floor.
  
• He also showed us a very cool assymmetry test to perform with a kettlebell during his hands on session. I will record a video soon.