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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s always healthy to do your research and as you will recall from my previous blog’s, since my school teachers constantly told me ‘</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">you’re not an academic</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’, this can take me longer than most to process the technical information in written form. So I often use visual resources like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/rachfit12/feed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>, to help me process and learn new information. Over the last couple of years however, I have also found audiobooks and podcasts to be fantastic resources for learning, processing and absorbing information in the auditory form.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">During my time trawling through these awesome resources as I researched squatting and dead lifting biomechanics, I came across all sorts of fascinating things. The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">fun</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> part was that I discovered that not ALL leaders in this subject area actually agree! This encouraged me to delve even deeper to try and understand both viewpoints. It also meant I did actually even buy more books.</span>

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<h3>What Happens When World Leader’s In Biomechanics Disagree?</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway my research also involved a chat with a friend of mine, <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biomechanics Coach™</a> Lawrence Farncombe, who is the head coach for our GB powerlifting team. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We discussed the debate between McGill and Gracovetsky on spine mechanics, the loads and the risk during deadlifting specifically. The fact that those two world leaders in biomechanics completely disagree with each other, was what Lawrence and I were trying to make some sense of. Interestingly this very debate came up again in an online forum recently and a healthy debate was had between several Biomechanics Coaches™.</span>

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<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Fitness-Performance-Stuart-McGill/dp/0973501804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490020052&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=McGill%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ultimate+Back+Fitness+%26+Performance%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1674 alignleft" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/back-mechanic-by-stuart-mcgill-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" /></a>

<img class="alignright wp-image-1675 size-medium" src="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Spinal-Engine-Full-cover-100-dpi-300x191.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="191" />

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Basically McGill’s take is that the spine should be ‘stacked’ without deviation (ie flexion or extension) occurring during a loaded movement, which he discuss's in his book, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Fitness-Performance-Stuart-McGill/dp/0973501804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490020052&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=McGill%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98Ultimate+Back+Fitness+%26+Performance%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large">Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>

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Gracovetsky argues in his book </span><span id="productTitle" class="a-size-large"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Spinal-Engine-Serge-Gracovetsky-2010-04-27/B01K3K9EKI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490019930&amp;sr=8-4&amp;keywords=Gracovetsky%E2%80%99s+%E2%80%98The+Spinal+Engine%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky (2010-04-27)</a></span> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">that the thoraco lumbar fascia acts like an hydraulic amplifier so an amount of flexion could be helpful.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">After discussing this over several conversations, both Lawrence and I felt that McGill’s view holds a more favourable reasoning in our opinions, however there are still professionals I have also spoken to in forums who defend Gracovetsky’s view.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It just goes to show, that the best way to determine what works best for you, is by doing YOUR OWN research after finding out about something new, no matter how much evidence there is to back that particular view up. This way you can be sure you’re practicing and teaching the philosophy's YOU believe in with YOUR clients and for YOUR own training. If you understand the arguments for and against and you’re able to JUSTIFY your reasoning, it would be a difficult for anyone to challenge you. YOU know YOUR client that YOU care for and ALL the details required to make that decision.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">YOUR knowledge and understanding will allow you to coach better and lead by example. We should NEVER use techniques we don’t fully understand or use simply because… "</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel said</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">….." or "...</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">so and so said</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">…" or "...</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">no idea, I heard it on a course</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.." or "<em>...I </em></span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>r</em>ead it somewhere</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">…"</span>

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<h3>So Find Ways To Process Information Until You Get It:</h3>
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<b>Personally….</b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In videos and the gym I would SEE &amp; FEEL moves...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In forums and phone calls I would DISCUSS them, hear others views … </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In books I would READ reasoning and technical information…</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The audiobooks, podcasts also NOW feed my auditory learning style.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Which would ALL contribute towards getting a better understanding of a particular debate or concept and allowed me to form some kind of an opinion. </span>

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<h3>What’s YOUR Problem?</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All too often PT’s, Pilates instructors and other exercise professionals come to us because they ENJOY discussing new research and these topics, but they also feel like they lack some of the knowledge (or resources) required to be able to challenge concepts, ideas or sometimes just to grasp and debate a technical argument. Which isn’t surprising really when even world leaders sometimes don’t even agree...!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do YOU feel </span><b>anxious</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about YOUR anatomy knowledge...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Do YOU </span><b>lack confidence</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in knowing exactly </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> your clients are moving that way...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Are YOU looking for a </span><b>deeper understanding</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of what’s going on inside your clients bodies..</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t worry! </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">For years I WANTED to learn and read, but I just didn’t feel I had it in me; now I feel like a complete sponge and literally cannot get enough! I now LOVE being able to absorb and learn from various resources. So I now want to encourage YOU, if you feel you are a bit like me and were told, and maybe still believe, you are a ‘non- academic’...</span>

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<h3>Please Do NOT Doubt Your Intelligence!!</h3>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">...JUST LIKE </span><b>YOU!</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Don’t worry if you are nervous about your experience or knowledge level as we will coach you through everything in a way that’s simple to understand. We will re-teach you the anatomy along with reasons to never ever forget it.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Move Freely,</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel</span>

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