Chronic Pain

Have you ever heard the saying that pain is your friend? Pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong. In that sense, I guess pain could be your friend. If you needed to know there was…


 Does This Stuff Really Make You Strong?

And now a guest post from OS Coach, NY Firefighter, and friend, John Galan........     I would like to start out this post by giving you a little background.…


Why Your Breathing Might Be Killing You...

And now, a guest post by Original Strength Instructor from Down Under, Piers Kwan.......... (Imagine an Australian accent as you read this) I was about 18 and was driving my car home…


Restoring vs Correcting, or Understanding vs Knowing

Last week, a friend and OS Coach, Patrick Gililov from Germany, sent me the following email. I liked it and asked if I could share it with our readers. This is a great post if you are a coach or a trainer.…


Strength10Me @ Work

A while ago, we introduced the Strength10Me Challenge, or you could think of it as the Strengthen Me for 10 minutes challenge. Most of us do have ten minutes in our day to devote to deliberate movement.…


Vantage Point

Do you know why humans are designed to hold their heads on the horizon? Vantage point. Probably not the reason you were thinking, but it is the reason. We are made to hold our gaze on the horizon, not…


The Head of....

We often talk about how the head leads the body or how the body follows the head. This is our design. If the head looks down, into flexion the body wants to go into flexion. If the head looks up in…


Original Strength for Baseball Players

And now, a guest article from OS Instructor, Mark Shropshire. If you are a coach, a trainer, or a strength enthusiast, this article is a MUST read.   As…


Simplicity

One of the beautiful things about Original Strength is it's simplicity. Simple movements like head nods, rolling and crawling build intricate neural connections which establish a solid foundation of…


What Do You See?

There is a great difference between what you look at and what you actually see. What I mean by that is you can look at something but not see its value. For example, you can look at someone rocking on…