Other/Mixed Information about McGill stuff

[Benjamin Renaud]

My biggest WTH for shoulders was working a lot on my TVA / stomach vacuum.

My PT just gave me some TVA+pelvic floor activation with leg slides/curls for pelvic/hip stability. They might help with shoulders too then I would guess.

I stayed away from stomach vacuum past couple of years due to Stuart McGill's advice to brace and not suck in, but working the TVA through vacuums can be good as long as it's not my primary bracing strategy. If the TVA needs specific work to get it in line with the rest of core muscles.

 

[watchnerd]

Open mouth valsalva ?

Haven't tried that!

But my 5 RM press went up to 8 when I learned how to better pull my navel and sphincter together.

 

[watchnerd]

My PT just gave me some TVA+pelvic floor activation with leg slides/curls for pelvic/hip stability. They might help with shoulders too then I would guess.

I stayed away from stomach vacuum past couple of years due to Stuart McGill's advice to brace and not suck in, but working the TVA through vacuums can be good as long as it's not my primary bracing strategy. If the TVA needs specific work to get it in line with the rest of core muscles.

The McGill Big 3 just scratch the surface for reasonable pelvic floor control.

But I've found value in going further into the kind of pelvic floor training used elsewhere (pilates, gymnastics).

 

[william bad butt]

What are the Cervical big 3, thoracic big 3 and shoulder big 3?

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Most of the coaches are saying about importance of warm up before training. From Pavel's old books I remember that he was not a big fan of doing warm up. I'm training everyday (GTG) so I do not do warm up and i feel good. In exercesises like weighted chin-ups risk of injury is much smaller than...

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[masa]

Personally, I don't think of of them as substitutable goods, but rather complementary.

Okay, but does it work with more endurance type of program? If I don't do S&S, but longer sets etc.

I do both core activation and dynamic mobilization in my warm ups.

That's a good way to do it, but I want to do less.

The McBill Big 3, for example, doesn't do much for hip and shoulder mobilization to make them primed.

I find bird-dogs to mobile my hips and shoulders. Of course I guess goblets and haloes does more.

 

[Benjamin Renaud]

I find bird-dogs to mobile my hips and shoulders. Of course I guess goblets and haloes does more.

I'm with you on this.

 

[Don Fairbanks]

Okay, but does it work with more endurance type of program? If I don't do S&S, but longer sets etc.

That's a good way to do it, but I want to do less.

I find bird-dogs to mobile my hips and shoulders. Of course I guess goblets and haloes does more.

Masa, take the stuff you like and put together your own customized mobility program, experiment a bit, keep it interesting.

 

[masa]

I'm with you on this.

Thanks!

Masa, take the stuff you like and put together your own customized mobility program, experiment a bit, keep it interesting.

Thanks! That's the plan.

 

[watchnerd]

Okay, but does it work with more endurance type of program? If I don't do S&S, but longer sets etc.

That's a good way to do it, but I want to do less.

I find bird-dogs to mobile my hips and shoulders. Of course I guess goblets and haloes does more.

it all depends on what you’re trying to mobilize for.

And your body.

I’d never be able to BB snatch doing only bird dogs, but I’ve trained with teenage girls who could snatch their regular training weight cold.

 

[masa]

it all depends on what you’re trying to mobilize for.

And your body.

I’d never be able to BB snatch doing only bird dogs, but I’ve trained with teenage girls who could snatch their regular training weight cold.

That makes sense. I recover slowly, so I don’t want to spend too much effort for warm up. I want to keep training short too, more like practice. But I figure it out someday, after I’ve solved other issues.