Podcasts for Athletes
These podcasts are for athletic trainers looking to increase their athlete’s performance while decreasing their chance of injury.
Please consult your doctor, personal trainer or health care professional prior to undertaking any new form of exercise.
Episode 57 : Chair Exercises for Swimmers
Tom McCook shows some exercises on the EXO® Chair geared for swimmers and for promoting spinal health and alignment.
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Episode 56 : Thoracic Mobility for Golfers
Ada Wells demonstrates the importance of thoracic mobility within the golf swing.
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Episode 55 : Swimmers and the Pilates Arc
Tom McCook shows some exercises that can strengthen the extensors and create good front-to-back balance for swimmers.
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Episode 54 : Shoulder Mobility and Golfers
Ada Wells discusses the importance of shoulder and lat muscle strength relative to a golf swing.
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Episode 53 : Hip and Spine Rotation for Swimmers
Tom McCook demonstrates exercises for swimmers to strengthen the lateral hips and the rotation of the spine in the waistline.
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Episode 52 : Balance for Golfers
Ada Wells shows how important correct balance is in a golf swing.
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Episode 51 : Extension for Swimmers
Tom McCook shows a series of exercises related to extension, which is particularly good for swimmers.
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Episode 50 : Core Control During the Golf Swing
Ada Wells shows some tests and exercises you can have your golfers do to ensure they have good control of their spine and pelvis during a golf swing.
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Episode 49 : Better Pelvic Control for Golfers
Ada Wells shows how better pelvic motor control can help golfers stay on a truer swing path.
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Episode 48 : Stabilization and Balance for Golfers
Ada demonstrates some exercises with the Ultra-Fit Circle that can increase hip and pelvis stabilization and balance for golfers.
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Episode 47 : Upper and Lower Body Coordination with “Magician”
Dane Burke demonstrates how the Magician exercise is great for athletes looking to increase upper and lower body coordination through the core.
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Episode 46 : Hip Strength for the Golf Swing
Ada Wells shows some exercises to strengthen your golfers’ glutes for better spine and spine rotation
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Episode 45 : Hip Extension using the Push Through Bar
Dane Burke goes over a great exercise that will help athletes gain an awareness of the connection between their glutes and hamstrings.
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Episode 44 : Golf Swings and Your Pilates Students
Ada Wells breaks down a couple of golf swings so you can better understand the needs of your golfers.
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Episode 43 : Teaser Variations on the Cadillac
Dane Burke shows a great exercise that helps athletes with front body awareness and abdominal strength.
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Episode 42 : Bridge and Pelvic Mobility and Core Control
Ada Wells demonstrates using the bridging exercise on the Pilates Arc to improve pelvic mobility and core control for your golfers.
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Episode 41 : Rotation and Spine Flexion
Dane Burke goes over an exercise that is beneficial for any athlete, regardless of what sport they play.
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Episode 40 : Disassociation of the Upper and Lower Body
Ada Wells goes over a test and some exercises that can help golfers with upper and lower body disassociation, resulting in stronger drives.
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Episode 39 : Integration with Snake
Dane Burke shows a challenging exercise, Snake on the Reformer, that can help athletes integrate their upper and lower extremities.
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Episode 38 : Scapular Stabilization
Dane Burke shows a basic Reformer exercise that can help athletes get the scapula working and connecting the way that we want them too.
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Episode 37 : Full Body Integration
Dane Burke shows some Side Plank and Star exercises which help athletes focus on the side of their body and attain whole-body integration.
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Episode 36 : Assisted Hamstring Stretch
Chrissy Romani-Ruby shows an assisted hamstring stretch using the Clara Barrel.
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Episode 35 : Side Lying Leg Work for Dancers
Cari Riis Stemmler does some side-lying leg work on the Trapeze table that can help improve a dancer’s pelvic stability.
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Episode 34 : Variations of Russian Splits
Dane Burke shows some variations of this advanced Reformer exercise, which is great for lower extremity strengthening and alignment.
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Episode 33 : Correct Medial Collapes or Pronated Feet
Chrissy Romani-Ruby shows some exercises that strengthen the glutes and external obliques using the Pilates Ring.
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Episode 32 : Improving Your Dancers Balance
Cari Riis Stemmler goes over an exercise on the Rotator Disks that will help your dancers work on their turns and will reveal any imbalances that they might have.
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Episode 31 : Side Laying Work on the Reformer
Dane Burke shows an easy exercise that will help athletes with lateral hip strength and lower extremity alignment.
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Episode 30 : Clara Barrel and Flexibility for Athletes
Chrissy Romani-Ruby shows a great exercise for athletes, specifically football players, that will help prevent groin pulls.
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Episode 29 : Turnout & Tracking for Dancers
Cari Riis Stemmler shows how to use the Ped-o-pul to make sure your dancers have proper turn out in the plie series.
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Episode 28 : Long Stretch for Full Body Integration
Dane Burke goes over Long Stretch and how the athlete can start to integrate upper and lower body with a few variations.
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Episode 27 : Modified Star for the Shoulder
Chrissy Romani-Ruby goes over a modified Star exercise that will help your athlete with their transverse abdominous.
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Episode 26 : Jump Board Work for Dancers
Cari Riis Stemmler shows how the jumpboard can help you focus on foot and ankle strength in your dancers.
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Episode 25 : Standing Work on the Reformer
Dane Burke goes over an exercise that is great for any athlete who needs hip stability.
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Episode 24 : Upper Body Exercise for Athletes
Chrissy Romani-Ruby goes over a great exercise for swimmers, or anyone with an active upper body.
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Episode 23 : Upper Back Extension for Dancers
Cari Riis Stemmler goes over an exercise that can help dancers to fully extend their upper back (as in a cambre) while keeping the core engaged & not flaring the ribs.
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Episode 22 : Thoracic Extension
Dane Burke demonstrates a chair exercise that will help your athlete with thoracic extension & rotation.
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Episode 21 : Posterior Obliques for Athletes
Chrissy Romani-Ruby shows an exercise that works an athletes posterior obliques.
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Episode 20 : Dancers & Full Body Integration
Cari Riis Stemmler shows how to get full body integration with arabesque on the Reformer
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Episode 19 : Athletes and Hamstring Arcs
Dane Burke goes over some exercises with feet in straps that can help athletes loosen up their hips and hamstrings while providing some lower extremity alignment.
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Episode 17 : Dancers Pelvic Stability
Cari Riis Stemmler demonstrates an exercise that focuses on the deep interior hip rotator muscles.
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Episode 16 : Lunge On The Chair
Dane Burke goes over something every athlete needs – a great exercise for lower body alignment of hip, knee & foot.
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Episode 15 : More for the Lateral Global Muscles
Chrissy Romani-Ruby gives us another effective exercise for athletes that targets the lateral subsystem of the global muscle group.
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Episode 14 : Dancers VMO & Adductor Strength
Cari Riis Stemmler goes over some chair exercises that will strengthen the adductors and the VMO for your dancers.
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Episode 13 : Lower Extremity Evaluation & Alignment
Dane Burke shows you a great exercise you can use to assess an athlete and teach them how to be aware of the relationship between foot, knee, and hip.
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Episode 12 : Lengthening Athletes Lats
Chrissy Romani-Ruby shares some exercises that can lengthen an athletes’ Latissimus-Dorsi and relieve rounded shoulder issues.
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Episode 11 : Pelvic Stability in Dancers
Cari Riis Stemmler goes over some exercises that will help your dancers with pelvic stability.
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Episode 10 : Scapular Stabilization – Tricep Press :
Dane Burke : 10/04/10 : 3m57s : 28.8megs
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Episode 9 : Exercises for Shoulder Rehab and Hamstring Strains :
Chrissy Romani-Ruby : 09/29/10 : 4m39s : 34.0megs
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Episode 8 : Introduction to Working with Dancers :
Cari Riis Stemmler : 08/20/10 : 5m03s : 37.1megs
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Episode 7 : Scapular Mobility & Stability :
Dane Burke : 08/13/10 : 4m06s : 30.1megs
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Episode 6 : Lateral Global Muscles in Athletes :
Chrissy Romani-Ruby : 08/07/10 : 3m56s : 28.7megs
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Episode 5 : Hamstrings for Dancers :
Cari Riis Stemmler : 07/30/10 : 9m48s : 71.7megs
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Episode 4 : CoreAlign® Exercises for the Feet :
Chrissy Romani-Ruby : 07/25/10 : 3m41s : 27.0megs
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Episode 3 : Jumping for Basketball Players :
Cari Riis Stemmler : 07/16/10 : 6m38s : 48.6meg
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Episode 2 : Exercise to Target Lats & Glutes for Athletes :
Chrissy Romani-Ruby : 07/09/10 : 5m0s : 36.9megs
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Episode 1 : Dancers & Upper Ab Strength :
Cari Riis Stemmler : 07/02/10 : 5m53s : 42.9meg
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