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You probably understand the importance of the posterior chain by now – that series moving and stabilizing muscles up and down your back side including but not limited to your butt. You probably know that sitting too much “numbs” this all-important set of muscles and is essentially a huge “hole” in the back of your body.
If you sit around and don’t do anything this might not be a problem. But if you have decided to use your body for sport and movement – you probably know that “posterior chain amnesia” is a very big, potentially catastrophic problem.
You might even know that a lot of athletes out there have no clue about all that functional, performance enhancing muscle on the back side of their bodies. And you know that weakness in the posterior chain means you lift less weight, possess poor movement quality and get injured more easily.
There is a lot of great information out there showing how rediscovering the muscles in the back of your body can literally “fix” you – i.e. make you stronger and hurt less. Or maybe you are new on the scene and are hearing all this for the first time.
Some bright minds in the fitness industry are now calling the posterior chain the “new core.” So what more can be said? Why am I here talking to you? Why should you listen?
Let me tell you a story. It was in the middle of happy time – deadlifting. The barbell felt like a feather. The muscle in the back of my body fired on all cylinders. The line between whether I was...
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