Athletic Truth Group (ATG)

News Summary:

On June 13, 2026, Athletic Truth Group (ATG) provided guidance on further back extension accessibility and understanding, emphasizing methods to safely reduce lower back pain and injury. The advice highlighted that simply holding a specific position until fatigued has been used in physical therapy for over 60 years and can be progressed, while identifying bending over as the primary cause of lower back injury. Previously, on June 6, ATG detailed "Every Solution Counts: $9 Knee Rebuilding," focusing on rebuilding and enhancing basic human knee ability through stepdown progression, split squat mobility progression, and full squat strength progression as key "knee over toes" movements coached over 16 years. This followed a May 22 post addressing shoulder pain in "Every Regression Counts… SHOULDERS!", where ATG suggested that measurably increasing strength in reverse of throwing helps reduce or eliminate shoulder pain, noting throwing as the most common cause of injury. Earlier, on May 16, ATG offered insights into progressing a bodyweight hamstring curl, stating that uphill activity and sprinting are more fundamental for hamstrings than hamstring curl exercises. ATG also responded on May 9 to the common question, "Why not just use a hill?" for training, asserting that actual hills are valuable and navigating them represents a lost basic human ability.