FLO FITNESS

At FLO we prided ourselves on keep our athletes injury free and for the most part we do a good job in doing so, but lets be serious can you truly prevent an injury? The correct answer is no, but there are many things that can be done in order to properly prepare the body to take on all the different types of physical stressors and forces that are associated in sport. All tissues within the body, whether it be bone, muscle, ligament, fascia, cartilage, and skin are all highly susceptible to these five forces, compression, tension, shearing, and bending. No matter what you do in your programming for your athletes, if you do not teach their bodies how to properly tolerate or absorb these forces, they will all lead to injury.  The reverse lunge alone is great exercise to get those glutes firing, but what happens when your athlete cannot maintain a proper up right posture while the descent portion of the reverse lunge? Do you give them a whole new exercise? Or do you just stay away fro