Toe Gripping

There are so many things I have learned over the past 20 years as a trainer and many of the best lessons were from mistakes I made. There are so many things I firmly believed in for years only to completely reverse my thinking years later. One of the best lessons was with regards to squeezing the glutes hard with strength exercises and even clenching the glutes constantly (also known gripping), which is something I did myself for many years believing I was doing a good thing. As a result I regularly suffered with all types of injuries all caused from my own training, or constant habits that I was not aware of that had become subconscious pain creators. In this article I take a look at what is a very common problem to many keen gym person and sporting athletes and how over doing something good can lead to causing problems with how you move.

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