<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ok so one of the biggest issues in our industry is ignorance. We live our lives at 100 miles per hour and ‘scan’ read all sort of things on social media like ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how fruit bats love oral sex’</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">if you name a cow it will produce more milk’</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and even that ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">viagra helps hamsters recover faster from jet lag</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’...seriously see the references at the bottom…</span>

<strong>But these are TRUE by research standards, the issue is context.</strong>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my experience a lot of PT’s take what some ‘guru’s’ tell them literally and then regurgitate what they heard, or read, as fact but maybe without even truly understanding it or with a degree of Chinese whispers when they relay it. The reason I know this is because I used to do the same. Yup, I would nod at my mentor and agree without even considering challenging them. </span>

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<h3>Fitness Guru's Make Mistakes Too...</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">My god, they have written books or are famous so who am I to challenge them? I used to think, even when it didn’t make sense to me. I assumed I was being dumb and just took their word for it. Maybe you have done that too eh? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Another error I used to make was ASSUMPTION of the context. The writer means one set of circumstances and I am thinking of others. This, in my opinion, is the writer's responsibility since context MUST be set for clarity of what the writer is trying to convey in their message, don’t you agree?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">As an educator, I learned very quickly NEVER to wing it. You can’t or you get caught out eventually and then it looks like you lack integrity. We have to lead by example about being honest when we don’t know BUT we do need to KNOW what we NEED and know REALLY well. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">My favourite mentor taught me a very important lesson that I now pass over to our academy learners. </span>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>TO CHALLENGE EVERYTHING!</strong></em></h3>
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<blockquote><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge” </span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Stephen Hawkin </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We really should challenge what we are told until we understand it fully ourselves within our context of thinking or with a context set by the author. Also thinking with depth as well as breadth.</span>

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<blockquote><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”</span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Albert Einstein</span></blockquote>
<img class=" wp-image-6410 alignright" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Rachel-France-Listening-to-Dan-John-Never-Let-Go-768x1024.jpg" alt="" width="338" height="450" />

<span style="font-weight: 400;">What I mean by this is we should not be afraid to challenge what we hear no matter who says it. Those celebrities or guru’s are still just humans like you and me. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">My Audible addiction has allowed me to absorb a ridiculous number of books by some of my favourite people. <a href="http://danjohn.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan John, strength, track and throwing coach</a> has been at the top of my listen to list for some time now</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In fact, I recently listened to my 5th Dan John book ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Never Let Go</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, I am a <strong>massive fan,</strong> however as I listened I wanted to challenge a statement he made. USA guru of strength coaching or not, I did not agree with a statement he made. </span>

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<h3>Where I Believe Dan John Is Wrong...</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dan John rubbed me up the wrong way when he talked about the ‘innie and outie’ machines like they are a total waste of time. He means the abductor/adductor machines by the way, or at least that’s my understanding of what he describes.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">None of his training suggestions (that I have come across so far) advocate any kind of frontal plane nor rotational work. He doesn’t see the point apparently!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now I have tried to come up with situations where this might be the case….errr….mmmm….NONE!?!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We ALL need ALL movement abilities to be efficient in our individual movement profile otherwise we will end up with poor strength ratios and have an increased risk of injury. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If you look at George Davies work into joint strength ratios in ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Compendium of Isokinetics’ </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">he discusses the hip flexors/extensor ideal strength ratio as 1:1 as are the hip abb/adductors. We found the same when we collected data from 4.5k subjects over 20+ years of using isokinetics. However, if you only train strength sagittally then chances are you will be lacking frontal plane stability. We do not simply move or require strength sagittally and to be fair I am confident Dan John would find it hard to disagree. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SO WHAT? (Great question eh…)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6415" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Walking-1024x512.png" alt="" width="642" height="321" />Well now have a think about the gait cycle and the effects of movement through the body when you walk. Imagine as you heel strike and your subtalar joint goes from pronation to supination, which by the way require triplanar motions (eversion/abduction/dorsiflexion for pronation and inversion/adduction/plantar flexion for supination). </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then imagine the effects of this force as it travels up through the lower leg and that torsional rotation hits the knee joint, which by the way doesn't just flex as I discovered upon reading Brunnstrom’s book ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clinical Kinesiology</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’ (gliding, rotation and flexion occur at the knee). This influences some internal rotation at the femur which in turn influences the pelvis, which by the way rotates around the Sacroiliac Joint (where the spine sits between the ilium) as you walk. Thus requiring the abd/adductors, for example, to ‘stabilise’ through the frontal plane as you lift one leg from the floor they because they will co-contract with the spinal lateral flexors, like QL, on the opposite side.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The spine clearly rotates in dudes like Dan John because you can see it as they swagger round the gym, shoulders rotating….;)</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">... you understand my point?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So I disagreed with his statement about ‘innie and outie’ machines being a waste of time, he did NOT add context for me to accept it either. Had he done so then I may not be writing this blog.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Abd/adductor strength is vital for risk reduction of common injuries like inguinal hernias and dysfunctions like ligament dominance (knee valgus upon landing) that can result in ACL injuries. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now had he stated that he felt the abd/add machines were for some reason not as beneficial and had then given a reason and the alternative examples it might have softened the blow to my disappointment</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Non-machine examples he could have given might have been side planks, weight on the top leg, which is placed on top of the bench for adductors or weight on bottom leg for abductors.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-6395" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Side-Plank-Biomechanics-Education-1024x683.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" />But wait...there is a still a challenge to this in context. Side planks are bloody hard! Imagine all client types...ok so a strength athlete might get away with side planks, but what about 70yr old Ethel? CONTEXT!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Does it change my respect for Dan John? Not at all, it makes me remember <strong>he is human like me</strong> and is writing the book for a specific demographic. He is also very honest about his own humble beginnings and mistakes and I like that. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The lesson here is for YOU to notice when an author doesn’t write the context because they assume the reader will be their demographic. This is one of the main rules of marketing, write in the words of your audience/demographic, so I understand what Dan John is doing in his book. I can reason with my frustration at his flippancy over dismissing a certain exercise as useless because I can see he is ‘in character’ as he writes. </span>

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<h3><b>Challenge EVERYTHING! Yes, Even Me!</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">So where am I going with this?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, it is simple really, I would like to encourage you to challenge everything you are told or read, until you have absolute clarity of what the writer or orator is trying to communicate. Once understanding is clear then surely we can feel confident about our contribution to the discussion.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally just because Dan John says innie &amp; outie machines are useless please don’t take it literally and think that your elderly client Ethel won’t benefit from them…..</span>

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<h3><b>How Do We, Biomechanics Education, Help?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is an education company’s responsibility to encourage an individual's ability to express themselves through various platforms or mediums. Autonomous learning comes from developing the inquisitive nature in our learners. This vital lesson really increases confidence when it comes to receiving new information. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Something we are renowned for is enabling huge increases in confidence in our learners.  We advise them the learning only begins once they finish their training with us and so our support is lifelong. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We permit, and encourage, our learners to re-sit their workshop as many times as they wish for free until they qualify and feel happy with their depth of understanding. A human is available to talk to over the phone, via skype or any other medium to support you before, during and after your training with us. We get together 4 times a year to network, discuss, troubleshoot, share, review, refresh and continue our lifelong learning journey. We have recently added an online resource provision called the IBA member portal. This contains all the most up to date resources we have to offer, including manuals, screening forms, reading lists and webinars and online workshops will be coming very soon! Then once a year we come together to celebrate Biomechanics Coaching and its phenomenal evolution over 30yrs with some fabulous dates and discussions around human movement and the latest research. </span>

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Oh and just for your amusement is the research I mentioned at the beginning....

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fruit Bats Love Oral Sex</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Animals have sex primarily for reproduction rather than pleasure. The male inserts his penis into the female’s vagina, and after a minute or two, the deed is done.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sex among animals is so basic and boring that it’s fascinating to know that certain mammals engage in sexual activities that are </span><a href="http://www.livescience.com/9754-surprising-sex-behavior-bats.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">associated with humans and pleasure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, such as fellatio and cunnilingus.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2009, researchers from the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, accidentally discovered that short-nosed fruit bats engage in oral sex. During the study, the scientists expected to see typical animal behavior such as grooming. Instead, they observed that female fruit bats licked the male’s penis during sex.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In another study conducted in 2010 and 2011, researchers discovered that </span><a href="http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/28/youve-seen-fruit-bat-fellatio-now-fruit-bat-"><span style="font-weight: 400;">flying foxes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (another fruit bat species) engage in oral sex, too. This time, it was the male bat that licked the female’s vagina. In both studies, researchers discovered that engaging in fellatio and cunnilingus prolonged sex among the bats. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientists have not yet discovered the evolutionary basis of oral sex among fruit bats. But they suggest that it might help in sperm transportation, stimulation of female glandular secretions, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.</span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cows With Names Produce More Milk</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dairy farmers could potentially increase their incomes with one </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/farming/4358115/Cows-with-names-produce-more-milk-scientists-say.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">simple but weird trick</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—give their cows names. A scientific study published in Anthrozoos suggested that cows with names produce more milk than their nameless counterparts.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This bizarre study was conducted by Drs. Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, and it involved over 500 dairy farmers from the United Kingdom. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">On average, cows produce 7,500 liters (2,000 gal) of milk over a period of 10 months. But Douglas and Rowlinson discovered that cows with names produced 260 liters (70 gal) more.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Many dairy farmers have long suspected that giving their cattle some “one-to-one attention” increases milk production, but this research was the first that tried to prove it scientifically. According to the study, cows that are herded as a group also produce less milk.</span>

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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Viagra Helps Hamsters Recover Faster From Jet Lag</span></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">We all know that Viagra is used to treat erectile dysfunction. However, Diego Golombek of the National University of Quilmes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has discovered that this light blue pill might also help to </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-1.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">treat jet lag</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This bizarre scientific research was conducted on hamsters that were injected with Viagra. After administering the drug, the rodents’ sleep cycles were pushed ahead by six hours—the approximate amount of time needed to fly from New York to Paris.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The hamsters on Viagra recovered from jet lag as much as 50 percent faster than the hamsters without Viagra. Although the results were fairly positive, scientists do not know if the same effect will occur in humans.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, Viagra was administered to the hamsters via injection. Scientists are uncertain if taking the drug as a pill will produce the same effect.</span>