Lots of people have wrist and elbow problems that are not necessarily from wrist or elbow issues but from an inability to create a proper tension strategy when holding themselves off the floor with their upper body. In this class, we worked wrists, elbows, shoulders and scapula and the brought them all together to create an efficient and effective strategy for utilising bigger muscles and joints to hold ourselves up when we perform exercises with our hands on the floor.
Equipment:
yoga block
hand or tea towel
light dumbell (<2kg) or tennis ball/water bottle
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Internal Conflict (26th June)
When squatting we're often cued to screw our feet into the floor, push our knees out and try and externally rotate our hips. This works for part of the movement but at a certain point we'll need to have a more internally rotated position both at the pelvis and hips as well as further down the cha...
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What You Kneed (30th June)
Deep knee flexion is not accessed often in a typical western lifestyle because we sit on chairs, have access to toilets and don't spend enough time on our feet. However being able to fold the leg back on itself is vital for a body that can move freely. Without it we are unable to access a deep sq...
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Squat-ly Crew (3rd July)
In this class, we start to explore what we need to maximise our bilateral squat motion. We work some hip, knee and ankle internal rotation from a pseudo-squat position to understand and feel how important internal rotation at these joints are for creating force. And then we hit some ankle eversio...
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