Move It Or Lose It | Exercise For Injuries Interview with Rick Kaselj

Move it or Lost it – old words, but so true. Sitting in a cubicle, then battling like a weekend warrior has left many of us living on Advil or other pain killers. Knee and shoulder pain doesn’t have to be a part of life as a Cube Dweller. Meet Rick Kaselj from Exercise for Injuries. In this interview we talk about ways to strength knees and workouts for shoulders. Rick is a specialist, a personal trainer who has honed in on how we can move it or lose it in our shoulders and knees.

Exercise for Injuries Interview with Rick Kaselj

Join us I talk with Rick Kaselj to explore moving or losing our mobility in our shoulders and knees. He drops several tips for us Cube Dwellers to be prepared for our weekend warrior adventures. He talks about:

• Dynamic warm-ups as a critical part of how to strengthen the knee
• Scapular muscles as an essential area to rehabilitate and strengthen in our shoulders
• And much more

Who is Rick Kaselj?

Rick specializes in active rehabilitation and fitness. He has worked in one-to-one active rehabilitation and group rehabilitation with people who have been injured at work, in motor vehicle accidents and during sport. Rick has personally trained a wide variety of individuals and lead group fitness classes for healthy and special populations.

Rick has combined his work experience and passion for research to develop a variety of courses and presentations for fitness professionals, Kinesiologists and health care professionals. They include introduction to core stability, advanced core stability, postural assessment & exercise prescription, exercise rehabilitation of the shoulder, exercise prescription for the lower back, exercise rehabilitation of the knee, , resistance exercises for the injured shoulder, shoulder stabilization, stability ball exercises, advanced stability ball exercises and better golf.

Rick has started his fitness focus in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology. In 2008 Rick returned to school for a master’s of science degree with a focus on corrective exercise, which is addressing muscular imbalances in order to prevent and rehabilitate injuries.

Muscular Imbalances

In Rick’s work he has recently worked with a team of vie other fitness professionals to produce a comprehensive program addressing upper and lower body issues based on the concept of muscle imbalances.

Rick found that after training clients for over 15 years focusing on cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility he was getting results, but felt there was more to offer. During his pursuit of a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science he came across the concept of muscle imbalances. His research uncovered the stretching was often the approach used to address imbalances, it wasn’t ideal. As he kept digging, he found new approaches for addressing muscle imbalances and the pain they cause – the results were amazing.

Rick found that he was able to help them bust through fitness plateaus, prevent injuries, and overcome injuries. Rick knew pretty quickly that this was something that needed to be shared with other fitness-fanatics.

In order to get an even wider perspective on muscle imbalances, Rick sought out 5 other experts in the area and, using video presentations and handouts, we all share the best assessments and exercises that we use to help clients address muscle imbalances.

The result is a two-tiered approach at helping fitness professionals and fitness enthusiasts: Upper Body Muscular Imbalances and Lower Body Muscular Imbalances.

Shoulder Injuries – Upper Body Muscular Imbalances

During the interview Rick talked about how we should move it or lose it in our shoulders. He talked about the importance of thinking about how injuries occur and perform shoulder workouts to strategically strength the shoulder. He talked a lot about the importance of developing strength in the scapular muscles.

For those of us that sit for our jobs the muscles across the back of our shoulders are often ignored. Rick suggests specific exercises to strengthen the scapular muscles like the bent row, kettlebell row, or ring row.

To dig deeper here are two products from Rick to address shoulder problems and help you move it or lose it.

• Muscle Imbalances Upper Body Edition
• Rotator Cuff Solution

Serious About Shoulder Health

For some serious resources to help you (and your clients) develop specific workouts for shoulders check out Muscle Imbalances Revealed – Upper Body Edition.

This program is designed to help train you with the background to be able to assess muscle imbalances in the upper body, including the shoulder, then develop specific methods to address the imbalance, resolve mobility issues, and relieve joint pain.

Rotator Cuff Injuries

Rick has another program that is a bit more focused on injuries to the rotator cuff. This program isn’t as in depth, or as broad as the Upper Body Muscular Imbalances program, but does provide a very practical solution to recovering from rotator cuff injuries.

Knee Injuries – Lower Body Muscular Imbalances

During the interview Rick talked about the importance of building dynamic movements into warmups to strengthen knees. Too often our warm-ups and stretches focus on movement in a single plane instead of full multi-directional mobility. Great tips, but Rick has also produced some products to help you dig deeper and resolve your knee pain.

• Muscle Imbalances Lower Body Edition
• Knee Injury Solution

Serious About Knee Health

If you are ready to really dig in and get equipped to resolve lower body pain and muscle imbalances, then Rick created this product just for you. The Muscle Imbalances Lower Body Edition is the result of Rick’s effort of pulling together a team of 6 fitness professionals to develop indepth, detailed, instruction on muscle imbalances of the lower body.

Knee Injury Solution

Rick has created another product that like the Rotator Cuff Solution, is pin-point focused on helping resolve pain and rehabilitate knee injuries. His Knee Injury Solution is designed to help you resolve pain without medication or surgery.

Move It or Lose It

Don’t get stuck immobile throughout the entire day, then get injured as a weekend warrior. Take Rick’s advice and move it, or lose it. Dig deeper into his products for muscle imbalances, knee injuries, and rotator cuff injuries. Let his specialization help you move it, so you can continue to live life to the fullest as a Cube Dweller.

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