The NASM-CPT Podcast With Rick Richey NASM Podcast Network

After covering the lower crossed syndrome in our previous episode, it’s time to talk about the upper crossed syndrome.
Host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, explores potential overactive and under active muscles, ways to address certain movement patterns, as well as a few training tips to employ with your clients on the topic.
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We are now moving from dynamic assessments to static assessments in your NASM textbook.
In this episode, host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, deep dives into lower crossed syndrome, explores what muscles may be contributing to the position, both in tightness, as well as weakness.
Plus, a few tips to consider during your assessments – particularly with the position of the spine and the sacrum.
Enjoy Rick’s first mini-series monologue presentation in static postural assessments!
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Our deep dive into dynamic postural assessments continues with a closer look at why the head commonly juts forward during pushing and pulling exercises.
Host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, explores what is causes this unwanted movement in workouts, what muscles could be short, tight, or overactive, as well as which ones can help keep the head in neutral position, including the chin tuck position.
Plus, examples of how these muscles work, antidotes from Rick’s award-winning personal training career, and much more.
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Don’t shrug your shoulders, we’ll do everything to get you up to speed on scapular elevation in this episode of the “NASM-CPT Podcast.”
Host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, deep dives why there’s a tendency for people to elevate, or shrug, their shoulder blades up to their ears when lifting, why shrugging, or elevating, isn’t necessarily wrong. Plus, he explores two specific muscles which cause the scapula to elevate, tools to minimize hyperactivity of muscles, and much more!
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On this “NASM-CPT Podcast,” we focus in on arms falling forward.
Host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, goes straight to the CPT-7 textbook to explore what can make the arms fall forward in an overhead squat assessment, including several under active muscles.
He will also share a few of his personal experiences training clients with these movement issues with some corrections he suggested, plus much more!
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The series rolls on, this time focusing on excessive arching in the low back.
On this “NASM-CPT Podcast,” host, and NASM Master Instructor, Rick Richey, deep dives into common compensations which cause low back arch, cites specific NASM research findings from our CPT-7 textbook, as well as concepts to help maintain proper postural positioning.
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