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My client/friend sent me this thought provoking idea todayWithin my training program to eliminate joint pain, the first ...
08/14/2022

My client/friend sent me this thought provoking idea today
Within my training program to eliminate joint pain, the first thing that I always teach is awareness. I’ve experimented with making it an active “exercise,” which didn’t work well and had to settle on a passive introduction which included internal kinesthetic reassurance such as me asking “how does that feel/does that feel worse or better than before?” and then officially revisiting after we discuss the hips and shoulders and realizing that internal focus aka “awareness” is the glue that keeps progress together
Having experimented with this and coming to the current curriculum I use has taught me that people often look for external stimulus in order to change things internally…which makes no f**king sense!
In my current meditative journey to practice patience in many forms, it has been eye opening to see how often I simply react because of things I repeat on the daily. (Autonomy/not awareness)
Becoming aware of what we have programmed and whether it serves the specificity of the current moment (awareness) is and will always be the first step to progress. So when life gives you things that make you feel anxious, angry, scared, hurt,..happy, just shut the f**k up and listen to what you are teaching yourself

Food for thoughtThere always comes a time, sooner than later, when I discuss with my clients what they should be thinkin...
07/18/2022

Food for thought
There always comes a time, sooner than later, when I discuss with my clients what they should be thinking about when exercising in order to eliminate their joint pain
Often, joint pain, body dysfunction including and not limited to scoliosis, cartilage and bone deterioration, come from a set of bad habits that stem from a lack of meaning behind their (physical) intentions throughout their years of existing
In order to change 20,30,40,50 and even 60 years of unintended movement that led to the pain and the deterioration of their body I need to make sure that what I teach them is ALWAYS being thought about and practiced
The journey and key to success in changing how someone feels and moves, is to change how someone thinks
If you have given up on getting healthy or “fit” in the past or have used the excuse “it’s ok. This happens as a result of getting old,” then I have bad news for you…you are not in the mindset of improvement. Change that. ♥️

07/12/2022

All workouts are the same!
What is the similarity between Crossfit/olympic lifting, yoga, pilates, gymnastics, calisthenics, weight training and any other type of body practice?
Like this collection of pictures in one space show, many poses/positions and forces you are fighting against/letting go of are the same. I would even confidently argue that there are fewer differences than there are similarities between all of these practices
Sure, there are some specific things within each practice that veers away from the others, but that's what gives it the personality we keep coming back to
I point out to my clients all the time that to learn the fundamentals of movement, is to in essence, be able to have a strong foundation within all practices.
In fact, That's how I convinced my older adult female client who only believed in yoga, who was afraid of traveling to Bali to visit her son and her grandkid because she feared she wouldn't be able to handle her own luggage to do kettlebell deadlifts
By learning how to use her muscles properly to support heavy weight while moving, she was able to travel safely with no issues.

So it really annoys me how separate or completely different everybody thinks yoga is to strength training for example, when they are literally the same concept, just said and taught differently. And that needs to stop.
Wanna learn more about the method that connects all other methods? Comment below
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06/27/2022

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05/22/2022

I have, since I can remember, always suffered from a fallen arch on my right foot, which has in the past caused havoc and chronic pain in my feet, knee's, hips, and lower back. Being active in sports didn't help
For a long time, I wore orthotics, which were meant to alleviate that pain. And they did…when I was wearing them at least. I had also always worn cushion filled shoes that supported my feet as I did what I was doing. However, I was still waking up in the middle of the night because of aches in my lower back and knees. I was a 22 year old with 90 year old joints
It wasn't until I came across minimalist shoes that my dependency on pillows on my feet changed. At first, my feet, most especially my heels and arches, were super sore. So sore that I contemplated renting a wheel chair. I almost gave up right then and there. Thankfully, I was at a point in my personal training career, that I rationalized that my feet were hurting because I was using them incorrectly.
After much mindfulness, I had learned that the fallen arches were also effecting my hips in a negative way, and since my hips were moving wrong, my knees were also being used incorrectly. Once I started working the weak muscles of my hip and essentially learning how to walk again, I was finally pain free. Not only that, I had the most mobility I have ever had, even when I competed in the 110m and 400 meter hurdles. I was squatting "ass to grass" pistol squatting, and moving better than I ever had. But most importantly, I haven't woken up from pain in the middle of the night since.
This post is to encourage you to not rely on literal crutches for your body's weaknesses, but instead actively work on them or at least find someone who can help you get on the right path.

05/15/2022

Today, I'm going to teach you how to get your weak and stiff cable crunches that look like this
Looking strong, controlled, and mobile like someone who knows exactly what they are doing.
First, start by holding the cable as close to you as possible while attempting to roll yourself up
It's important to note that you want to flex your spine as much as you can in order to activate your "core"
Once you get that down, extend your arms along with your spine as you sit up. Keeping your arms as extended as possible, focus on rolling yourself up and then focus on unrolling back into extension as controlled as possible
When you get the hang of that, combine both movements together to get full extension and flexion of the spine while also including both your posterior and anterior upper body muscles
Once you master that, add some rotation of the spine while you flex and extend to include every sub system of the body for full body integration and one of the best cable crunches you can do.
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05/12/2022

How to get rid of your double chin by fixing your posture
Unless you’re carrying a lot of extra weight, “double chin” is caused by several postural dysfunctions including lower crossed syndrome and upper crossed syndrome, which causes forward head leaning and in turn stretches the skin around the platysma
This then causes loose skin to bunch up when you attempt to retract and flex the deep flexors of the cervical spine
I have seen this double chin issue normalize in my clients when the other dysfunctions, especially the upper crossed syndrome is taken care of as over lengthened muscles are strengthened and skin elasticity “goes back to normal”
So here are 5 exercises you can start doing right now to take care of that double chin
Deadbug > variations
Neck bridge
“Strong nods”
Cervical rotation/flexion/extension
Mandible manipulation in extension
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05/01/2022

Do your handstands suck? Watch this to make them better!
Today I am going to teach you how to turn your weak, ugly, and unstable handstands that looks like this
Looking and feeling stronger, more stable, and more controlled, like this.
First, stop kicking up to the wall like this. This is effectively training your body to always overshoot the mid point.
Instead, start training your handstands while facing the wall so that you are already close to that magical point of balance and increase your strength getting into and out of that balance point
Once you get the hang of that, turn yourself around and get closer to the wall so you don’t look like you’re about to break and work on pulling yourself towards your balance point.
After you nail that, start working on your shoulder and core strength. The super curvy pic to the left is the perfect picture showing what weak shoulders and core looks like
A great exercise to help you get stronger is this upper body focused regression which makes it easier to train those weak points by pulling yourself into the proper end point
After working on these two main things, your handstand should start looking and feeling better, because you will have gotten stronger by training smarter.
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04/29/2022

Going over the training experience with a new client
Most often than not, it only takes a kink in a link to destroy an entire chain
Just because you don’t have physical limitations, does not mean that you are free to access all the capabilities of your body
Listen how we go from a potential client who came to me about pain on the outside of their feet and how that was happening because they had no control over their body, to being able to finally being grounded and free
Like, share, and comment if you have a link that’s been feeling weak and are curious about what you can do to improve

04/14/2022

Instagram fitness tips can be helpful
However, forcing your body to do something "the right way" isn't actually the right way to do it
Why does your body think that the most natural way
to do something is actually the worst for your joints?
Are you in pain physical pain? Does your brain think
you're in pain?
Take those tips you see with a grain of salt and instead of trying to force yourself to move a certain way, ask yourself why it's difficult for you to move
that way in the first place
That is where strength and progress begins
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stuff. 💪🏽

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