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I have another interview with a fitness professional that focuses on body weight exercises.

Today I am interviewing Adam Steer.

He’s going to chat with us about common mistakes fitness professionals make when performing body weight exercises.

Adam Steer has an extensive background in skiing and sports training which has lead to him focusing on body weight training.  The interview is packed with great information on body weight exercise mistakes.

3 Common Mistakes Fitness Professionals Make When Performing Bodyweight Exercises

In Part 1 of the interview, Adam Steer will share with you:

- 3 Bodyweight Exercise Mistakes
- Why use Body Weight Exercises?
- Who is Adam Steer?

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In Part 2 of the interview, Adam Steer will share with you:

- Bodyweight exercise modifications for shoulder injuries
- Bodyweight exercise modifications for knee injuries
- Bodyweight Exercises Tips

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Before I go, I wanted to type out a key part of the interview.

I know not all of you will listen to the whole interview but there is a lot of great information.

This was the part that I thought was a must to listen to.

What Bodyweight Modification Can Fitness Professionals do with Client’s a with Knee Injury?

Rick Kaselj: Now what would be some modifications to the lower body that fitness professionals should consider when it relates to bodyweight exercises for a client that has an old knee injury or has sore knees when they do a lunge or a squat.?

Adam Steer: Sure. A lot of times, what you’re going to see in those cases is quad dominant people, where, when they squat, they’re going right down onto the front of their foot.

We want to get the weight back onto their heels and get good gluteus activation to counteract quadriceps dominance.

What I often do, is use a rope the client can use to hold onto as they move into a squat or into a lunge, so they feel comfortable bringing the weight onto the heel during the exercise.

Then, gradually reduce their dependence on that aid.

So you go from a rope to a really thick stretch band to a thinner stretch bank to a thinner stretch band and then into an unassisted exercise.

That’s one really good way to do it. Again, with floor based exercises, if I want to take pressure off the knees or the ankles, or if I’ve got a client with reduced mobility in the knees or ankles, then again, I can go up to a raised surface.

If I’m doing some kind of lateral movement where they’re sliding their foot off to one side underneath the other arm, this is an exercise called a leg swoop. If I get their hands up off the ground while their doing that movement, it requires a lot less knee mobility, mobility in the knees and the hips. That’s an example where I can work around mobility while I build mobility through other exercises, but still allowing them to keep training.

The last thing I often use, which is very similar to what we do in conventional strength training is, I’ll use boxes or benches or big medicine balls to give them a target to sit back down onto. To make sure again that they’re getting the weight back down on the heels and using the glut activation through the movement. Those are kind of my main modifications for lower body stuff.

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Thank you so much.

I hope you enjoyed the interview.

Feel free to email me and let me know what topic you would like to cover in upcoming interviews or fitness professionals you would like me to interview.

Rick Kaselj, MS

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