Omniathlete

Life is healthy feet. Anyone who has suffered from a foot injury can attest to how quality of life is ruined by unhealthy feet. The foot is the only part of the body to regularly contact the ground. Comprised of 26 bones, 33 joints, 19 muscles, 107 ligaments, 10 tendons, the foot is arguably the most mechanically complex part of the body - so much so that Leonardo da Vinci called the foot a work of art. Generally, the properly functioning foot needs 30° of inversion, 20° of e

When it comes to low-back strength and posterior chain development in athletic performance, no exercise has the characteristics of the seated good morning. This exercise has been used for several years by Soviet Union weightlifters in the 70's and 80's and it was an integral part of their training regime. Legendary weightlifting coach Alexei Medvedyev, in his book A System of Multi-Year Training in Weightlifting , wrote that "seated good mornings on a bench and on the floor

Whenever i talk about foot pressure mapping technology during my courses or keynote lectures at international conferences, i always got surprised by the deficits in knowledge and understanding of the differences between force and pressure measurements. I often receive questions that actually sounds a little bit obvious to me but i will try to clean up the topic in terms of both technology and biomechanics. Force vs Pressure or Force + Pressure? When talking about force and